The Triumph Of Music (John Anster Poems)
Lonely was the blossomingOf the sad unwelcomed Spring;And Man, the slave of passions blind and brute,A wanderer in a world ...
Lonely was the blossomingOf the sad unwelcomed Spring;And Man, the slave of passions blind and brute,A wanderer in a world ...
Comes the British bulldog first-solid as a log-He's so ugly in repose that he's a handsome dog;Full of mild benevolence ...
Helen, in her silent room,Weaves upon the upright loom;Weaves a mantle rich and dark,Purpled over, deep. But markHow she scatters ...
The sun had set;The leaves with dew were wet:Down fell a bloody duskOn the woods, that second day of May,Where ...
I had a dream, which was not all a dream.The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the starsDid wander darkling in ...
Just a few miles from Manila Bay,Near the close of a summer's day,When the sun was flooding with gold the ...
A Dramatic SketchA Forest. Night.Alone, amidst the interminable forest!-Where shall I seek for aid! my weary limbs,Torn by the briars, ...
I"No, no! Leave me not in this dark hour,"She cried. And I,"Thou foolish dear, but call not dark this hour;What ...
Beauty and splendor were on every hand:Yet strangely crawled dark shadows down the lanes,Twisting across the fields, like dragon-shapesThat smote ...
When midnight flung o'er earth and seaHer solemn veil of gloom,All fearless and alone was she,The Lady Grizzel Hume,-Lighted beneath ...
The nearer camp fires lighted, The distant beacons bright-The horsemen on the skyline Are closing in to-night!My brothers, Oh my brothers! Lie down ...
The battlefield behind us, And night loomed on the track;The Friends of Fallen Fortunes Were riding at my back.Save those who lay ...
The vicar sat in the firelight's glow,A volume in his hand,And a tear he shed for the widespread woe,And the ...
The sun went down in flame and smoke, The cold night passed without alarms, And when the bitter morning broke Our men stood ...
Lying on Downs above the wrinkling bayI with the kestrels shared the cleanly day,The candid day; wind-shaven, brindled turf;Tall cliffs; ...
Farrar, when o'er Goodwin's pageLate I found thee poring,From the hydrostatic SageLeaky Memory storing,Or when groaning yesterdayNeedlessly distractedBy some bright ...
Gayly a knight set forth against the foe,For a fair face had shone on him in dreams;A voice had stirred ...
Let us with a gladsome mind Praise the Lord for he is kind; For his mercies aye endure, Ever faithful, ever sure. Let us ...
DARK Angel, with thine aching lust To rid the world of penitence: Malicious Angel, who still dost My soul such subtile violence! Because of ...
I tore this weed from the rank, dark soilWhere it grew in the monkish time,I trimmed it close and set ...
WHAT do the old men say, Sitting out of the sun? Many strange and common things, And so would any one. Locust trees are ...
THE outrage of innocence in instances too numerous to be recorded, of the wanton barbarity of the soldiers of the ...
BOOK IIThey whisted all, with fixed face attent,When Prince AEneas from the royal seatThus gan to speak: O Queen, it ...
I.Oh this earth is a mineful of treasure, A goblet, that's full to the brim,And each man may take for his ...
To God our strength sing loud, and clear,Sing loud to God our King,To Jacobs God, that all may hearLoud acclamations ...
The night has spread its raven hair,O'er the house and round the trees,And nothing stirs the winter air,The street is ...
The yellow poplar-leaves came down And like a carpet lay,No waftings were in the sunny air To flutter them away;And he stepped ...
My parents were sober living, and often did prayFor their family to abstain from intoxicating drink alway;Because they knew it ...
"There, on the left!" said the colonel: the battlehad shuddered and faded away,Wraith of a fiery enchantment that left onlyashes ...
Under our curtain of fire,Over the clotted clods,We charged, to be withered, to reelAnd despairingly wheelWhen the bugles bade us ...
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