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, ...
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, ...
Children, when you sat wishing,Down last night on the sands,Beckoning moments of glory,With little helpless hands,I heard you saying and ...
O, were you at war in the red Eastern land?What did you hear, and what did you see?Saw you my ...
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 ...
White Rose, talk to me!I don't know what to do.Why do you say no word to me,Who say so much ...
Twenty-five shots!And, out of all the spotsWhere a man could stand and shoot,You would have said, "Not there."Anywhere else it ...
White Angels, listening all aroundThe terror, wrath, and strife of men,For faint heroic notes that soundThrough the mean tumult now ...
Down by the pier, when the sweet morn is blowing,Slips from her moorings the fisher's light bark,Sends up her ringing ...
Under the straight, still Indian sunWent forth a pompous train,To see some due obeisance doneFor England's name and reign.Gaily the ...
"Odin hath spoken! The king of heavenAnswer dark to my prayer hath given;Odin hath spoken a fearful thing,-Hear, O people! ...
AGED THREE YEARS AND A HALFDeep in thy round blue eyesAsleep thy spirit lies,Or half-awake and wanton in its play,As ...
I met a woman, weeping by the sea,Not patiently, as women sit and weep,But running, white with passion, wild with ...
A nightingale made a mistake!She sang a few notes out of tune,Her heart was ready to break,And she hid from ...
Father, I bring before Thy throneA heart more dear to me than mine;O! watch it with Thine eyes benign,And take ...
Out of the Past there has come a Face;Wherefore I do not know;I did not call it from its place,I ...
SEPTEMBER 1862Where shall we try Garibaldi?Find us some Italian townNot alive with his renown,Where the air is not on flameWith ...
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