The Children’s Dance (John Wilson Poems)
How calm and beautiful the frosty nightHas stolen unnoticed like the hush of sleepO'er Grassmere-vale! Beneath the mellowing lightHow sinks ...
How calm and beautiful the frosty nightHas stolen unnoticed like the hush of sleepO'er Grassmere-vale! Beneath the mellowing lightHow sinks ...
It is upon the Sabbath-day, at rising of the sun,That to Glenmore's black forest-side a Shepherdess hath gone,From eagle and ...
Stranger! this lonely glen in ancient timesWas named the glen of blood; nor Christian feetBy night or day, from these ...
It was not when the sun through the glittering sky,In summer's joyful majesty,Looked from his cloudless height;-It was not when ...
The courtly hall is gleaming brightWith fashion's graceful throng--All hearts are chained in still delight,For like the heaven-borne voice of ...
How mournfully this burial-groundSleeps 'mid old Ocean's solemn sound,Who rolls his bright and sunny wavesAll round these deaf and silent ...
Ere Margaret was three months old,Her father laid her in the mould!Poor Babe! her fleeting visit hereWas marked by many ...
Gentle as dew, a summer showerIn beauty bathed tree, herb, and flower,And told the stream to murmur onWith quicker dance ...
Though oft in Britain's Isle the breathing bustTo fame consign the patriot-hero's dust,And conquerors waked to mimic life againIn imaged ...
Sylph-like, and with a graceful pride,I saw the wild Louisa glideAlong the dance's glittering row,With footsteps soft as falling snow.On ...
To whom belongs this valley fair,That sleeps beneath the filmy air,Even like a living thing?Silent,-as infant at the breast,-Save a ...
Beside her Babe, who sweetly slept,A widowed mother sat and weptO'er years of love gone by;And as the sobs thick-gathering ...
O gentle Sleep, wilt thou lay thy headFor one little hour on thy lover's bed,And none but the silent stars ...
I wandered lonely, like a pilgrim sad,O'er mountains known but to the eagle's gaze;Yet, my hushed heart, with Nature's beauty ...
When by God's inward light, a happy child,I walked in joy, as in the open air,It seemed to my young ...
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