The Burns Statue (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
This Statue, I must confess, is magnificent to see, And I hope will long be appreciated by the people of ...
This Statue, I must confess, is magnificent to see, And I hope will long be appreciated by the people of ...
Ye sons of Germany, your noble Emperor William now is dead. Who oft great armies to battle hath led; He ...
We saw the swallows gathering in the sky, And in the osier-isle we heard them noise. We had not to ...
It is a year dear one, since you afar Went out beyond my yearning mortal sight A wondrous year! perchance ...
Down home to-night the moonshine falls Across a hill with daisies pied, The pear tree by the garden gate Beckons ...
I thank thee, friend, for the beautiful thought That in words well chosen thou gavest to me, Deep in the ...
A gallant city has been builded far In the pied heaven, Bannered with crimson, sentinelled by star Of crystal even; ...
My Claudia, it is long since we have met, So kissed, so held each other heart to heart! I thought ...
Here is a voice that soundeth low and far And lyricvoice of wind among the pines, Where the untroubled, glimmering ...
Here all the day she swings from tide to tide, Here all night long she tugs a rusted chain, A ...
"It fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers. And he said unto his ...
Oh! Arranmore, loved Arranmore, How oft I dream of thee, And of those days when, by thy shore, I wander'd ...
Through Erin's Isle To sport awhile As Love and Valour wander'd, With Wit, the sprite, Whose quiver bright A thousand ...
Through thick Arcadian woods a hunter went, Following the beasts upon a fresh spring day; But since his horn-tipped bow ...
That Providence which had so long the care Of Cromwell's head, and numbred ev'ry hair, Now in its self (the ...
A Poem upon the Death of His Late Highness the Lord Protector That Providence which had so long the care ...
song Fauc1 First. Chorus. Th' Astrologers own Eyes are set, And even Wolves the Sheep forget; Only ...
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...
Hence, vain deluding Joys, ............The brood of Folly without father bred! How little you bested ............Or fill the fixed mind ...
Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn From his displeasure; in whose look serene, When angry most he seemed and most ...
O, for that warning voice, which he, who saw The Apocalypse, heard cry in Heaven aloud, Then when the Dragon, ...
Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven firstborn, Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblam'd? since God ...
Oh, my beloved, have you thought of this: How in the years to come unscrupulous Time, More cruel than Death, ...
ALL day they loitered by the resting ships, Telling their beauties over, taking stock; At night the verdict left my ...
They first charged me with disorderly conduct, There being no statute on blasphemy. Later they locked me up as insane ...
Ye young debaters over the doctrine Of the soul's immortality I who lie here was the village atheist, Talkative, contentious, ...
Suppose it is nothing but the hive: That there are drones and workers And queens, and nothing but storing honey ...
There is a lovely noise about your name, Above the shoutings of the city clear, More than a moment's merriment, ...
When the rose is faded, Memory may still dwell on Her beauty shadowed, And the sweet smell gone. That vanishing ...
A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before The Earl Of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wales. The Persons The ATTENDANT ...
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