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 ...
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 ...
A hall it was, where myriad lamps a richer daylight made,And folds of falling purple gave harmony to shade;And odours, ...
Earl Strongbow lies in Dublin towers,Begirt by a mighty host;At the horn's wild sound they have gather'd aroundFrom forest, hill, ...
Two days and nightsI watch'd the winding of the changeful lightsAbout the ivory shadows of his face,Which, like a rock, ...
In the beautiful forest is strayingAn innocent little white doe,And the creature is happily playingWith the sunlight that flickereth so;The ...
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 ...
A FACTUp where the world grows cold,Under the sharp North star,The wrinkled ice is very old,And the life of man ...
Twenty-five shots!And, out of all the spotsWhere a man could stand and shoot,You would have said, "Not there."Anywhere else it ...
She has not a morsel to eat!Just fancy a child in that state,Creeping along all alone in the street,A sweet ...
I met a woman, weeping by the sea,Not patiently, as women sit and weep,But running, white with passion, wild with ...
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 ...
A child stood by the rising seaOn a dismal winter's morning,And dream'd what coming life might be,And sigh'd o'er the ...
Never subdued till now,Wounded perhaps to death,Did Italy strike the blow?Say it under your breath!She struck him; we strive in ...
Across the moon the beech-tree weavesAn airy mystery of leaves,The lights which through that covert passGlisten like rain-drops on the ...
Looking back,Wander we through life's long track,Looking back,Where a parted sun's soft rayLingers yet across the way.Gazing home,As the slow ...
Little beggar children, with your little ragged dresses,Does love atone for joys unknown by beautiful caresses?Or, do you live in ...
She placed the pitcher on her head,With idle steps the way she tookAcross the pleasant field that ledDown to the ...
Out of the Past there has come a Face;Wherefore I do not know;I did not call it from its place,I ...
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 ...
Not only echoes from the pastTalk to us in that tender phrase;It rings upon our hearts at last,A watchword for ...
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