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 ...
Menella Bute Smedley Poems (116 Poems)
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, ...
A Contrast (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
Trained tenderly by Heaven and Earth,Up grew she to her gentle height,-Grew to the level of the lightThat shines by ...
The Enemies (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
PART IOh, fair was Countess Isadoure,The Ladye of Le(Menella Bute Smedley)
The Conquest Of England (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
PART FIRSTDuke William stood on the Norman shore,With all his merry men round;And he will sail the blue seas o'er,To ...
Old Donald (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
Up in the Highlands of ScotlandThe fairies are very rude;I do not know if all are so-Some of them may ...
The Lay Of The Fearless De Courcy (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
The fame of the fearless De CourcyIs boundless as the air;With his own right hand he won the landOf Ulster, ...
The Decree Of Odin (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
"'I loosened the bonds which bindThe Pestilence, my slave;I sent him forth as the wind,I bade him stand in the ...
The Mother’s Lesson (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
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 ...
The Tournament (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
The churches twelve of WallingfordA stately sight they were,When gleaming shields were hangingFrom every column fair;For a mile around the ...
The Wedding-Ring (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
PART IChildren should not leave aboutAnything that's small and bright,Lest the fairies spy it out,And fly off with it at ...
The Six Burghers Of Calais (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
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 ...
The Painter (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
A hall it was, where myriad lamps a richer daylight made,And folds of falling purple gave harmony to shade;And odours, ...
The Vow Of Cortes (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
Word was brought where Cortes layOn the shores of Coronzel,That, pent from the blessed light of dayAnd the free breath ...
Pats Of Butter (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
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 ...
Earl Strongbow (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
Earl Strongbow lies in Dublin towers,Begirt by a mighty host;At the horn's wild sound they have gather'd aroundFrom forest, hill, ...
Coeur De Lion And His Horse (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
"Ah, Fanuel, my noble horse, and art thou, art thou slain?Wilt thou never bear me to the chase or the ...
Rizpah (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
Two days and nightsI watch'd the winding of the changeful lightsAbout the ivory shadows of his face,Which, like a rock, ...
The Prince And The Outlaw (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
Oh, it was our gallant Prince Edward,Rode forth into Alton wood;His plume was white, his sword was bright,His heart was ...
The Little White Doe (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
In the beautiful forest is strayingAn innocent little white doe,And the creature is happily playingWith the sunlight that flickereth so;The ...
To Foxes (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
Two children are lost in a wood,What can they do? what can they do?They have not a morsel of food,And ...
The Butterfly And The Fairies (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
A butterfly was grieved one dayBecause he could do nought but play;He envied bees and birds and ants,And senseless stones ...
The Escape Of The Empress Matilda (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
Through changeful clouds of nightThe winter moon was gliding,Like a bird with wings of lightOn the buoyant breezes riding;Fair was ...
Heroes (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
Children, when you sat wishing,Down last night on the sands,Beckoning moments of glory,With little helpless hands,I heard you saying and ...
The Hermit Of Gibraltar (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
(A TRUE STORY)He died among the flowers, when dawn was leapingLike a freed lion through the sever'd east;'Twere but a ...
Granmamma And The Fairies (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
In the pattern of the curtainsUpon Grandmamma's bed,You may see the parks where fairiesTheir nightly measures tread.The white parts are ...
Disobedience (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
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 ...
Grizzel Hume (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
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 North Pole Story (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
A FACTUp where the world grows cold,Under the sharp North star,The wrinkled ice is very old,And the life of man ...
The Wounded Daisy (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
At twilight in beautiful summers,When all the dew is shed,And all the singers and hummersAre safe at home in bed,In ...