Bruce And Douglas (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
LAY THE FIRST THE DEATH OF BRUCEThere is darkness in the chamber,There is silence by the hearth,For pale, and cold, ...
LAY THE FIRST THE DEATH OF BRUCEThere is darkness in the chamber,There is silence by the hearth,For pale, and cold, ...
Trained tenderly by Heaven and Earth,Up grew she to her gentle height,-Grew to the level of the lightThat shines by ...
"'I loosened the bonds which bindThe Pestilence, my slave;I sent him forth as the wind,I bade him stand in the ...
The churches twelve of WallingfordA stately sight they were,When gleaming shields were hangingFrom every column fair;For a mile around the ...
Fairies can hide anywhere,Up and down, and in and out,'Neath the cushion of a chair,In a teapot's empty spout;They can ...
Two days and nightsI watch'd the winding of the changeful lightsAbout the ivory shadows of his face,Which, like a rock, ...
A butterfly was grieved one dayBecause he could do nought but play;He envied bees and birds and ants,And senseless stones ...
Children, when you sat wishing,Down last night on the sands,Beckoning moments of glory,With little helpless hands,I heard you saying and ...
In the pattern of the curtainsUpon Grandmamma's bed,You may see the parks where fairiesTheir nightly measures tread.The white parts are ...
Says he, "I'll take my father's gun,Obedience is absurd;And would not it be awful funIf I could shoot a bird!"Says ...
When midnight flung o'er earth and seaHer solemn veil of gloom,All fearless and alone was she,The Lady Grizzel Hume,-Lighted beneath ...
At twilight in beautiful summers,When all the dew is shed,And all the singers and hummersAre safe at home in bed,In ...
Where were you when I suffered? My heart was very faint;It wanted a heart to lean on; where was yours ...
A little boat in a cave,And a child there fast asleep;Floating out on a wave,Out to the perilous deep-Out to ...
Twenty-five shots!And, out of all the spotsWhere a man could stand and shoot,You would have said, "Not there."Anywhere else it ...
Down by the pier, when the sweet morn is blowing,Slips from her moorings the fisher's light bark,Sends up her ringing ...
Come about the meadow,Hunt here and there,Where's Mother's thimble?Can you tell where?Jane saw her wearing it,Fan saw it fall,Ned isn't ...
Airy budding ash-tree,You have made a throne,And the sweetest thrush in all the worldIs sitting there alone;Drawn in tints of ...
Two that wrecked each other's hope,Parting coldly in their prime,Met upon the downward slope,Taught by tears, and calmed by time,Under ...
I was four yesterday: when I'm quite old,I'll have a cricket-ball made of pure gold;I'll carve the roast meat, and ...
A figure wanders through my dreamsAnd wears a veil upon its face,Still bending to my breast it seems,Yet ever turns ...
So noble that he cannot seeHe stands in aught above the rest,But does his greatness easily,And mounts his scaffold with ...
Father, I bring before Thy throneA heart more dear to me than mine;O! watch it with Thine eyes benign,And take ...
"Bear with us! Your garden showsMany a snug and comely nest;But the very leaf we choseIs for us the only ...
What saith the Past to thee? Weep!Truth is departed!Beauty hath died like the dream of a sleep,Love is faint-hearted.Trifles of ...
The children crown'd themselves with roses,And all the roses died!Pale on the soft brown locks they lay,Like a dream of ...
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