L’Ancien Regime (James B.V. Thomson Poems)
Who has a thing to bringFor a gift to our lord the king,Our king all kings above?A young girl brought ...
Who has a thing to bringFor a gift to our lord the king,Our king all kings above?A young girl brought ...
IN a dream of the night I was wafted away,To the moorland of mist where the martyrs lay;Where Cameron's sword ...
Methought that in a Burial-groundOne still, sad vernal day,Upon a little daisied moundI in a slumber lay;While faintly through my ...
Soule Nor wealthy mines, nor mineralls I seeke: My thoughts are low, and meeke, And like a tender leeke Both white, and greene; Though ...
An Indian Prince now Resident in England.Of late I listened to a wondrous tale From lips revered. 'Twas not of war ...
Sunny summer day it was when loping in to Laramie,I overtook the Walking Man, reined up and nodded "How!!"He'd been ...
Let us go far from here!Here there is sadness in the early year:Here sorrow waits where joy went laughing late:The ...
In troublous days of anguish and rebuke,While sadly round them Israel's children look, And their eyes fail for waiting on their ...
Song of Praise in Celebration of the Omniscience andOmnipresence, the Almighty Power and the Infinite Wisdom OfGod.LORD, thou hast searched ...
"Lord, in Thy field I work all day,I read, I teach, I warn, I pray,And yet these wilful wandering sheepWithin ...
The Son of God in doing good Was fain to look to Heaven and sigh:And shall the heirs of sinful blood Seek ...
Come near me with thy lips, and, breathe o'er mineTheir breath, for I consume with love's desire,--Thine ivory arms about ...
True! Spring renews the faded year;And renovated fruits and flowersIn re-awaken'd charms appear:—They deck the plain—they crown the bowers—Their blush ...
God of the morning! Thou, the sabbath's God!Round whose bright footsteps thousand planets roll:A million beings at Thy mighty nodAre ...
"Sing on!-You will win the wreath of Fame: if not in life, it will bloom gloriously over your tomb." -Friendly ...
What is she writing? Watch her now,How fast her fingers move !How eagerly her youthful browIs bent in thought above ...
Scene I—Marriage of Sir R. Peel With Lady E. HaySee yonder gorgeous fane, its doors expand,Throng'd with the rank, wealth, ...
THE BURDEN OF THE SEA.Isaiah, XXIII.THE sea hath spoken! Hear, O Earth! Where everlasting hills arise;And all the host of heaven, stand ...
Shall it be said that the wind's gone overThe hill this night, and no ghost there?Not the shape of an ...
WELL speed thy mission, bold Iconoclast!Yet all unworthy of its trust thou art,If, with dry eye, and cold, unloving heart,Thou ...
O friends, I cannot comfort, but will share with you your grieving, In the valley of the shadow where you sit ...
LET the liar call me liar, And the robber call me thief.They can only fan the fire That is born of my ...
And when the Lord saw her, He had compassion on her, and said untoher, Weep not. And He came and ...
Why should we faint and fear to live alone, Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die,Nor e'en the tenderest ...
SHE left the festival, for it seem'd dimNow that her eye no longer dwelt on him,And sought her chamber,--gazed, (then ...
Mrs. Anne Whitaker in Barbados.ON wings of Angels borne unto her God,This blessed Saint has gained the bright abode:Serene thro' ...
Merrily rang out the midnight bells, Glad tidings of joy for all;As crouched a little shiv'ring child, Close by the churchyard wall.The ...
Here dwells the good old farmer, Israel, In his ancestral home—a Puritan Who reads his Bible daily, loves his God, And lives serenely ...
"And is there in God's world so drear a place Where the loud bitter cry is raised in vain?Where tears of ...
Red o'er the forest peers the setting sun, The line of yellow light dies fast awayThat crowned the eastern copse: and ...
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