To A Friend In London, Upon My Returning To College (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
While You, dear Tom, in London City,Associate with the fair and witty,And, gayly rambling o'er the Town,Take the brisk Juice ...
While You, dear Tom, in London City,Associate with the fair and witty,And, gayly rambling o'er the Town,Take the brisk Juice ...
"Write me a rhyme of the present time". And the poet took his penAnd wrote such lines as the miser minds Hide ...
Her mouth is like a dewy roseThat blows, but will not open quite;Like flame turned down, her long hair glowsIn ...
I would gaze down the vista of past years,In fancy see to-night,A loved one passed from sight,But whose blest memory ...
Doubt takes to wings on such a night as this; And while the traveler hugs her fluttering cloak, And staggers o'er the ...
Hail sacred shades! cool, leavy House!Chaste treasurer of all my vows,And wealth! on whose soft bosom laidMy love's fair steps ...
The Firm Establishment, Universal Extent, and Eternal Duration of theGlorious Kingdom of Messiah.A Prophetic Ode.WHY do the heathen rage?Their princes ...
The dawn came in through the bars of the blind,-- And the winter's dawn is gray,-- And said, "However you cheat your ...
Oh lend me thy hand in the darkness, Lead me once more to the light,Bear with my folly and weakness, Point me ...
I. The cactus and the aloe bloom Beneath the window of your room; Your window where, at evenfall, Beneath the twilight's first pale star, You ...
AN OLD LATIN ODE.SUNG ANNUALLY BY THE WlNCHESTER BOYS UPONLEAVING COLLEGE AT THE VACATION. [Translated at the Request of DR. ...
WHAT is a kiss ?--'Tis but a sealThat, lightly printed, soon decays:'Tis but a zephyr taught to stealWhere fleeting falsehood ...
Summer's last sun nigh unto setting shinesThrough yon columnar pines,And on the deepening shadows of the lawnIts golden lines are ...
'Tis eight miles out, and eight miles in,Just at the break of morn.'Tis ice without and flame within,To gain a ...
I wanted you, nameless Woman of the South,No wraith, but utterly-as still more aloneThe Southern Cross takes nightAnd lifts her ...
O, you plant the pain in my heart with your wistful eyes, Girl of my choice, Maureen! Will you drive ...
WHAT of Louvain and of Rheims Made for God by man? What then?Here be temples more than man's Wrought by God for ...
Bud, come here to your uncle a spell,And I'll tell you something you mustn't tell--For it's a secret and shore-'nuf ...
QUICK throbb'd my heart: to norse! haste, haste,And lo! 'twas done with speed of light;The evening soon the world embraced,And ...
The dead leaves strew the forest walk,And whither'd are the pale flowers;The frost hangs blackening on the stalk,The dew-drops fall ...
Let us have a jolly spree, An' wi' joy an' harmonie, Let the merry moments flee, For mi love's come back. O, the days ...
Come to me, Sunbeam! I'm dyingUncared for, distress'd and alone.Even now the pale angel with icy hand seizesThe heart that ...
He comes from the mountains greenTo the yellow shore:A thousand years he's seen,And a thousand more.His hair is dark as ...
THUNDER our thanks to her-guns, hearts and lips!Cheer from the ranks to her,Shout from the banks to her-Mayflower! Foremost and ...
Don't tell a camel about need and want.Look at the big lipspursedin perpetual kiss,the dangerous lashesof a born coquette.The camel ...
The fatherless and widow, Lord,Find hope and comfort in this word,Which in thy Holy Book they see,—"Leave all thy fatherless ...
"Come, rest with me now, my silver horn!My melodious joy, my silver horn!These many long years my constant friend,Together let ...
MAJESTIC dreams of heavenly calms,Bright visions of unfading palms,Wherewith the brows of saints are crowned,--Awhile my soul resigns them all,Content ...
Those twelve years from Ascension Until the day of meeting broke,She was not so much all alone As it might seem to ...
You used to say to me "I love you!",But that was through your teeth, at night,The bitter truth of "I ...
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