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, ...
All night she wept the hours away,With burning cheek and throbbing head,Crying, "Alas!" and "Well-a-day!""Woe is me, for my sons ...
PART IChildren should not leave aboutAnything that's small and bright,Lest the fairies spy it out,And fly off with it at ...
Word was brought where Cortes layOn the shores of Coronzel,That, pent from the blessed light of dayAnd the free breath ...
Two days and nightsI watch'd the winding of the changeful lightsAbout the ivory shadows of his face,Which, like a rock, ...
(A TRUE STORY)He died among the flowers, when dawn was leapingLike a freed lion through the sever'd east;'Twere but a ...
In the pattern of the curtainsUpon Grandmamma's bed,You may see the parks where fairiesTheir nightly measures tread.The white parts are ...
When midnight flung o'er earth and seaHer solemn veil of gloom,All fearless and alone was she,The Lady Grizzel Hume,-Lighted beneath ...
Trust the grand and gentle trees,Never will their welcome fade;All that lives may lie at easeIn the haven of their ...
White Rose, talk to me!I don't know what to do.Why do you say no word to me,Who say so much ...
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 ...
She has not a morsel to eat!Just fancy a child in that state,Creeping along all alone in the street,A sweet ...
A child is lying fast asleepDown where the lilies grow,And the lilies nod and peep,Quite pleased to have him so.And ...
How pleasant is the morning!How innocent and bright!How pretty and surprisingTo see the sun uprising,A ball of golden light!While sleepy ...
O little flowers, you love me so,You could not do without me;O little birds that come and go,You sing sweet ...
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 ...
We faint beneath this burning sky,Upon this barren steep,O! give us dew before we die,Give but an hour of sleep!We ...
Let her rest!Weary were her days, oppress'dBy vain cravings to be blest.Let her sleep!Slumber holy, dreamless, deep,Cover eyes that waked ...
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