Waxy: Or, Verses Upon A Young LDY’S Birth-Day (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
Hail to the Light of this revolving Morn,On which such Beauty to the World was born,Or rather made--for thus Traditions ...
Hail to the Light of this revolving Morn,On which such Beauty to the World was born,Or rather made--for thus Traditions ...
Was it the chime of a tiny bell,That came so sweet to my dreaming ear,—Like the silvery tones of a ...
I.Thy country's curse is on thee, darkest crestOf that foul, knotted, many-headed wormWhich rends our Mother's bosom-Priestly Pest!Masked Resurrection of ...
My Mother, thou hast not forgot the hour,Tho' Time since then is far upon his way,When youth and beauty crown'd ...
ON a rocky peak once sat I early,Gazing on the mist with eyes unmoving;Stretch'd out like a pall of greyish ...
Along in early spring time, as the sun starts swinging NorthTo linger with the land it loves, and violets peep ...
As some spent gladiator, struck by Death, Whose reeling vision scarce a foe defines, For one last effort gathers all his breath, England ...
Go forth and breathe the purer air with me, And leave the city's sounding streets;There is another city, sweet to see, Whose ...
Assemble, all ye maidens, at the door,And all ye loves, assemble; far and wideProclaim the bridal, that proclaimed beforeHas been ...
I Clad on with glowing beauty and the peace, Benign, of calm maturity, she stands Among her meadows and her orchard-lands, And on her ...
The weary day runs down and dies,The weary night wears through:And never an hour is fair wi' flower,And never a ...
Out of the dread eternities, The vast abyss of night,A glorious pageant rose and shone, And passed from human sight.We saw the ...
The bright blessed day with joy we seeRise out of the sea at dawning;It lightens the sky unceasingly,Our gain and ...
Midas, we are in story told,Turn'd every thing he touch'd to gold:He chipp'd his bread; the pieces roundGlitter'd like spangles ...
Thee have I seen in some waste Arden old, A white-browed maiden by a foaming stream, With eyes profound and looks like ...
When we've arrived by boat or rail, and feeling pretty well, And humped our heavy gladstones to the Great Norsouth Hotel; And ...
To A. R. C.AS, musing, late I sat reclin'd,And waking dreams absorb'd my mind,A damsel came, of various dyes,Like painted ...
LET others boast the golden spoil, Which Indian climes afford;And still, with unavailing toil, Increase the shining hoard:Still let Golconda's dazzling pride On ...
Who has a thing to bringFor a gift to our lord the king,Our king all kings above?A young girl brought ...
I.Laura, my Laura! 'Yes, mother!' 'I want you, Laura; come down.''What is it, mother—what, dearest? O your loved face how ...
Out of the west a voice—a shudder of horror and pity; Quivers along the pulses of all the winds that blow;—Woe ...
Lo! where the car of Day down slopes of flame On burnished axle quits the drowsy skies! And as his snorting steeds ...
How long will this harp which you once loved to hearCheat your lips of a smile or your eyes of ...
I. The juice-big apples' sullen gold, Like lazy Sultans laughed and lolled 'Mid heavy mats of leaves that lay Green-flatten'd 'gainst the glaring day; And ...
I. Came a spicy smell of showers On the purple wings of night, And a pearl-encrusted crescent On the lake looked still and white, While ...
You may roam the wide seas over, follow, meet, and cross the sun,Sail as far as ships can sail, and ...
Athwart a sky of brass rich ribs of gold; A bullion bulk the wide Ohio lies; Beneath the sunset, billowing manifold, The purple ...
The slender snail clings to the leaf, Gray on its silvered underside: And slowly, slowlier than the snail, with brief Bright steps, whose ...
What is she writing? Watch her now,How fast her fingers move !How eagerly her youthful browIs bent in thought above ...
I watched to-day a butterfly,With gorgeous wings of golden sheen,Flit lightly 'neath a sapphire skyAmid the springtime's tender green;--A creature ...
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