Rio At Sunset. (John Dunmore Lang Poems)
The glorious sun now darts his setting beamsOn Rio's palaces, conventos, spiresAnd batteries. The Imperial city gleams,Richly illumined with triumphal ...
The glorious sun now darts his setting beamsOn Rio's palaces, conventos, spiresAnd batteries. The Imperial city gleams,Richly illumined with triumphal ...
The magic of his wizard penStill holds the world in thrall:From lordly laurels won of menNo leaf may fade or ...
I watched the boys of England where they wentThrough mud and water to do appointed things.See one a stake, and ...
THROUGH the great hall, the heart of England's storyAcross the Lobby's tesselated floor,Through many a sombre oaken corridor,You moved in ...
I had a dream of England. Wild and weird,The billows ravened round her, and the wrack,Darkening and dwindling, blotted out ...
Alfred,--oh read his tale by Milton told!--In seasons, when the change of day and nightDoth, in our heaven, ill separate ...
The physical world itself is a fair thingFor who has eyes to see or ears to hear.To--day I fled on ...
Written on Board the Medway.OUR voyage is begun, for the anchor is weighed,And the north wind blows fresh and fair, ...
The bugles of England were blowing o'er the sea,As they had called a thousand years, calling now to me;They woke ...
No. 1561. Private H. W. ReidOnly a number and a name, one moreThat dies for England. Wight and majestyAnd power ...
Beyond the sea a land of heroes lies,Of fairy heaths and rivers, mountains steep,O'ergrown with vine - her memory I ...
I love the golden days of old romanceThat live for us in legend and in story,The Age of Gold when ...
Lady of England--o'er the seasThy name was borne on every breeze,Till all this sunset clime becameFamiliar with Victoria's name.Though seas ...
We could not turn from that colossal foe,The morning shadow of whose hideous headDarkened the furthest West, and who did ...
CHILD of an ancient Himalayan line,Whose cousins thy ancestral home adornNigh where the snow-peaks greet the coming mornWith pink as ...
Leckhampton chimney has fallen downThe birds of Crickley have cried it, it is known in the town,The cliffs have changed, ...
I KNOW not, in this dark and fateful hour,What England is to others, but to meShe is a noble heritage, ...
Happy is England! I could be contentTo see no other verdure than its own;To feel no other breezes than are ...
Lift up your hearts ! A foe is at the gateJealous of England's greatness, jealous tooOf all that she has ...
WHEN the charters of England by worth are maintain'd,And each citizen's right supported unstain'dBy corruptive measures, or fraudulent deeds,At which ...
Thabor of England! since my light is shortAnd faint, O rather by the sun anewOf timeless passion set my dial ...
WHAT widely sundered regions may we traceIn this delightful border! Here we seeAnchusas of Italian pedigree;Here the Cheiranthus of Siberian ...
Foe and friend and foe again,Turning coat and turning yet,That's a feat you don't disdain,De Wet.England's easy, England's kind,Quick to ...
England, what have you done to make the speechMy fathers used a stranger to my lips,An offence to the ear, ...
When mighty roast beef was the Englishman's food, It ennobled our hearts, and enriched our blood; Our soldiers were brave, and our ...
1.SWEET gem of Evening's placid sky!A stream of radiance round me pour;For oft thy golden lamp on high,Has o'er me ...
OH! give me the strength of the Lion,The wisdom of reynard the FoxAnd then I'll hurl troops at the GermansAnd ...
THE NEO-COMMUNEManhood of England,Dougth of the Shires,Want Russia to save 'emAnd answer their prayers.Want Russia to save 'em,Lenin to save ...
At morn the rosebud greets the sunAnd sheds the evening dew,Expanding ere the day is done, In bloom of radiant hueAnd ...
He was a boy of April beauty; oneWho had not tried the world; who, while the sunFlamed yet upon the ...
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