Keeping Tryst (Nora Pembroke Poems)
Who is the maid with silken hair By clear Maine Water roaming?For the fairy Queen is not so fair As she in ...
Who is the maid with silken hair By clear Maine Water roaming?For the fairy Queen is not so fair As she in ...
See! rob'd in new beauties, young May cheers the lawn! Ye virgins! how charming her air!Haste! cull her fresh flow'rets dew-dropping ...
SHE has gone,— she has left us in passion and pride,— Our stormy-browed sister, so long at our side! She has torn ...
When by my solitary hearth I sit, And hateful thoughts enwrap my soul in gloom;When no fair dreams before my "mind's ...
It was in the early morning Of life, and of hope to me,I sat on a grassy hillside Of the Isle beyond ...
Float in the winds of heaven, O tattered Flag!Emblem of hope to all the misruled world:Thy ...
I.Beautiful Alice, serene little saint, My treasure!— O better than mine,—What mind can imagine, or eloquence paint Thy gladness and glory divine?A ...
Dread phantom, with pale finger on thy lips, Who dost unclose the awful doors for each, That ope but once, and are ...
The morning broke with streams of welcome rain,Such as the two preceding ones had brought.Rain, that in tropic climes means ...
ON A SUN-PORTRAIT OF HER HUSBAND, SENT BY HISWIFE TO THEIR FRIEND.Beautiful eyes,—and shall I see no moreThe living thought ...
INSPIRATION. All who have toiled for Art, who've won or lost, Sat equal priests at her high Pentecost; Only the chrism and sacrament ...
HARK! the Lambeth Guardians sing:Glory to the new-born King;Glory to the gun and swordThat will teach the German hordeIn a ...
Lo! I must tell a tale of chivalry;For large white plumes are dancing in mine eye.Not like the formal crest ...
"And Death with Nature's noblest worlds at strife,"Quench'd the fair star that smil'd upon his life.Now the hollow drum resounding, Fired ...
Found Solitary Among the Hills. I. O pansy-violet, With early April wet, How frail and pure you look Lost in this glow-worm nook Of heaven-holding hills: Down ...
O Lord my God, do thou Thy holy will - I will lie still -I will not stir, lest I forsake ...
London, hast thou accused me Of breach of laws, the root of strife? Within whose breast did boil to see, So fervent hot, ...
I PESSIMIST There is never a thing we dream or do But was dreamed and done in the ages gone; Everything's old; there is ...
Go forth and breathe the purer air with me, And leave the city's sounding streets;There is another city, sweet to see, Whose ...
O Chesterfield, with early Laurels crown'd,For poignant Wit and nervous Sense renown'd,Whom all the Powers of Eloquence adorn,For publick Scenes ...
So while we are eating the fruits of the vine, Don't let us forget such a health giving juice, As Champagne, or ...
Who has a thing to bringFor a gift to our lord the king,Our king all kings above?A young girl brought ...
ADIEU dear object of my Love's excess,And with thee all my hopes of happiness,With the same fervent and unchanged heartWhich ...
I asked of my Muse, had she any objection To laughing with me,--not a word for reply!You see, it is Sfere, ...
Soule Nor wealthy mines, nor mineralls I seeke: My thoughts are low, and meeke, And like a tender leeke Both white, and greene; Though ...
Let us go far from here!Here there is sadness in the early year:Here sorrow waits where joy went laughing late:The ...
Our new flagbearer, pale and slim,A beardless youth of quiet mien,Much chaffed at by old soldiers grim(Before in battle he ...
Enchantress! whose transcendant pow'rs, With ease, the massy fabric raise;-- Beneath whose sway the tempest low'rs, Or lucid stream meaend'ring plays;-- Accept the tribute ...
Forlornly I wander, forlornly I sigh, And droop my head sadly, I cannot tell why: When the first breeze of morning blows ...
"Lord, in Thy field I work all day,I read, I teach, I warn, I pray,And yet these wilful wandering sheepWithin ...
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