The Undying Splendour (John William Streets Poems)
I: ENGLANDThere lies an isle, a splendour of the seaHaunting as Babylon, illustrious as Rome:A race of Saxon freemen there ...
I: ENGLANDThere lies an isle, a splendour of the seaHaunting as Babylon, illustrious as Rome:A race of Saxon freemen there ...
I hear thy voice in the lonely pinesWhen the winds arise in their unknown lair;In the rush of waves in ...
Like memories born in a dream my Fancy around thee plays,Re-embodies the life, the beauty of olden daysThat were thine ...
Once in thy secret close, now almost bare,Peace yielded up her bountiful largess;The dawn dropp'd sunshine thro' thy leafy dress;The ...
He died for love of race: because the bloodOf Northern freeman swell'd his veins: aroseTrue to tradition that like mountain ...
Peace can be found in strife: artilleryAre belching forth this sweet, entrancing mornTheir projectiles of death: yet as in scorn,Lost ...
Upon the margin of a rugged shoreThere is a spot now barren, desolate,A place of graves, sodden with human goreThat ...
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