The Steed And The Rider (Ernest Jones Poems)
In the morning's light advancing, Forward bounds a gallant steed,Deck'd with Beauty's goodly housing, Shod with Youth, Health, ...
In the morning's light advancing, Forward bounds a gallant steed,Deck'd with Beauty's goodly housing, Shod with Youth, Health, ...
Majuba Day! Majuba Day!Here's a health to Bobs and his force to-day!For the wiped-out shame from Britannia's fame,And the work ...
FIRST mention that land where the Nile, overflowing,Spreads beauty, and health, and fertility round,Then think of that region, where torrid ...
THOU, whose mild radiance all adore,O let not human-kind deploreThe loss of thy propitious smile:Why, Goddess, in such wild affright,Wilt ...
I weep, but not rebellious tears;I mourn, but not in hopeless woe;I droop, but not with doubtful fears;For whom I've ...
Fair flower of Christmas - white chrysanthemum!I mark thy blossoms wave, thy fragile formBend to the breeze, yet brave the ...
They shall see Him in the crimson flush Of morning's early light, In the drapery of sunset, Around the couch ...
"The night-flood rakes upon the stony shore; Along the rugged cliffs and chalky caves ...
My heart's at the war with a good-natured riflemanWhere he stands firing his foemen to slay;While he was home with ...
Time has made conquest of so many thingsThat once were mine. Swift-footed, eager youthThat ran to meet the years; bold ...
Ed was a man that played for keeps, 'nd when he tuk the notion,You cudn't stop him any more'n a ...
DELUSIVE Hope, thou flattering fairy,I will not thy soft tales believe;Fill not my mind with dreams so airy,Of thee I ...
The lapse of years hath not yet parted theeFrom our most dear remembrance, shrin'd in thoughtThou reignest o'er a melancholy ...
IT 'S a wonderful world when you sum it all up,And we ought to be glad we are in it;The ...
IF I had wealth and I had health,And I 'd a roof above me,If I'd a wife to cheer my ...
All that pass by, To Jesus draw near,He utters a cry, Ye sinners, give ear!From hell to retrieve you He ...
Who will drink a health with me?Drink together, messmates all!To the men who sat aforetime Where we sit to-night;Brothers they, ...
There are two kinds of people on earth to-day; Just two kinds of people, no more, I say.Not the sinner ...
BRIGHT Goddess of the downy smile, O come, and spread thy wings awhile, Where sickness dims ...
"Hail, favor'd spot, divine retreat, Sweet refuge from sol's scorching heat; Here, balmy zephyrs waft their wealth, And impregnate each ...
HAIL! lovely harbinger of day,To welcome whose returning rayAll Nature quits repose:How sweet thro' gilded clouds to traceThy beauteous joy-inspiring ...
1. (From: Fetes de la Patience) O seasons, O chateaux,Where is the flawless soul?O seasons, O chateaux, The magic study ...
Here's a health to every sportsman, be he stableman or lord,If his heart be true, I care not what his ...
SEE how Britannia droops her head,This gloomy hour she sees,And weeps to find AUGUSTUS laidDepriv'd of health and ease.She anxious ...
ELOQUENT deceiver! say, With each soft, each fond endeavour;Canst thou bid the fragile clay, Live and last and ...
D'ye ken our Jack with his note so gay,D'ye ken our Jack at the break of day,D'ye ken our Jack ...
Down thro' the ages these same sticksHave played on man their knavish tricks. Down thro' the ages these false lips ...
Through yon little planting, by yonder streamside,Where Ribble's sweet waters flow softly and wide,While the dew's on the meadows it's ...
Farewell, fair castle! on thy lordly hill Firm be thy seat and proud thy station still, Soft rise ...
Haste the O God, & make good spedeFor to delyuer me:Make haste to helpe and me nowe rydO Lorde I ...
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