Hero Herald (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
IIn his tent, at fall of day,Hero Harold loosed his mail,As a bark which nears the bayDrops on deck her ...
IIn his tent, at fall of day,Hero Harold loosed his mail,As a bark which nears the bayDrops on deck her ...
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 ...
PART IChildren should not leave aboutAnything that's small and bright,Lest the fairies spy it out,And fly off with it at ...
The burghers six of Calais,True were they and brave;To save their fellow-townsmenTheir lives they freely gave.Will ye hear their story?Come ...
"Ah, Fanuel, my noble horse, and art thou, art thou slain?Wilt thou never bear me to the chase or the ...
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 ...
Through changeful clouds of nightThe winter moon was gliding,Like a bird with wings of lightOn the buoyant breezes riding;Fair was ...
Children, when you sat wishing,Down last night on the sands,Beckoning moments of glory,With little helpless hands,I heard you saying and ...
Trust the grand and gentle trees,Never will their welcome fade;All that lives may lie at easeIn the haven of their ...
There moves a sad processionAcross the silent vale,With backward-glancing eyes of grief,And tearful cheeks all pale.Scatter'd and slow, without array,With ...
He said there was on earth no fairer sightThan April shadows from the tall green flagsWe taunted him with overflows ...
Forget-me-nots grow by the stream,Their blue eyes look up to the skies;I think I have seen in a dreamAs blue ...
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 ...
He stands at the door of the church peeping in,No troublesome beadle is near him;The preacher is talking of sinners ...
Two children sat in the twilight,Murmuring soft and low;Said one, "I'll be a sailor-lad,With my boat ahoy! yo ho!For sailors ...
"Odin hath spoken! The king of heavenAnswer dark to my prayer hath given;Odin hath spoken a fearful thing,-Hear, O people! ...
AFTER THAT SHAMEFUL IMPRISONMENT WHICH WAS THE RESULT OF HIS DEFEAT AT PAVIAI am once more a king!Wave forth my ...
She has not a morsel to eat!Just fancy a child in that state,Creeping along all alone in the street,A sweet ...
Never subdued till now,Wounded perhaps to death,Did Italy strike the blow?Say it under your breath!She struck him; we strive in ...
He lies on the grass, looking up to the sky;Blue butterflies pass like a breath or a sigh,The shy little ...
Two boys stood on a heightReading their coming lives in earth and sky;One clapp'd his hands in gay delight,And cried, ...
It was an April morningWhen my true love went out;The wind had never a warning;The sky had never a doubt.Leaves ...
SEPTEMBER 7 1862On the seventh of September, in this dreariest of years,Darkness covers Naples, and the cloud must break in ...
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