Dora (Jean Ingelow Poems)
A waxing moon that, crescent yet,In all its silver beauty set,And rose no more in the lonesome nightTo shed full-orbed ...
A waxing moon that, crescent yet,In all its silver beauty set,And rose no more in the lonesome nightTo shed full-orbed ...
Wagons rattling and banging,horses neighing and snorting,conscripts marching, each with bow and arrows at his hip,fathers and mothers, wives and ...
From the door of the homestead the mother looks forth, With a glance half of hope, half of fear,For the clock ...
Among the sick and wounded ones, This stricken soldier boy lay,With glassy eye and shortened breath; His life seemed slipping fast away.My ...
"Thy braes were bonny, Yarrow stream! When first on them I met my lover;Thy braes how dreary, Yarrow stream! When now thy ...
'Tis a new thing for Australia that the waters to her bearOne who seeks not strength of sunshine, or the ...
The nuns sing, "_ora pro nobis_," The lancets glitter above; And the beautiful Virgin whose robe is Woven of infinite love, Infinite love and ...
The whelp that nipped its mother's dug in turning from her breast,And smacked its lusty lips and built its own ...
Blue gulf all around us,Blue sky overhead —Muster all on the quarter,We must bury the dead! It is but a Danish ...
May, sweet May! this branch of blossomFrom thy fragrant, beauteous bosom,I accept and clasp the treasureTo my breast with grateful ...
NEW YORK, DECEMBER 22, 1855NEW ENGLAND, we love thee; no time can eraseFrom the hearts of thy children the smile ...
When the still Night withdrew her sable shroud, And left those climes with steps sedate and slow; While sad Aurora, kerchief'd in ...
"This in thankworthy, if a man for conscience towards God endure grief, suffering wrongfully." I S.Peter ii. 19Praise to our ...
The shower of moonlight falls as still and clear Upon this desert mainAs where sweet flowers some pastoral garden cheer With fragrance ...
I SEE the Nation, as in antique ages,Crouched with rent robes, and ashes on her head:Her mournful eyes are deep ...
I hain't no great detective, like yer read about,--the kindThat solves a whole blame murder case by footmarks left behind;But ...
There was a Boy whose name was Jim;His Friends were very good to him.They gave him Tea, and Cakes, and ...
Midnight's solemn peal had rung;My drowsy spirit listless hungBetween the certain and unreal,When visioned forms and shapes idealCome floating from ...
In the shadow of the rood,Broken-hearted there she stoodNear her Son and Lord;While her soul, His doom lamenting,Yet in sacrifice ...
Not in cloud and not in thunder, Filling all the world with wonder, Came to earth the Lord of earth; But with helpless ...
Children become, while little, our delights!When they grow bigger, they begin to fright's.Their sinful nature prompts them to rebel,And to ...
Air — "The Major's Only Son"Come all good people, far and near,Oh, come and see what you can hear,It's of ...
On Martinmas eve the dogs did bark, And I opened the window to see,When every maiden went by with her spark But ...
And no one knows what became of him, Crazy Levi,who tied the roadsfrom Yaverev to Moshtsiskto Samber to Greyding in ...
"How many times and oft" has the sweet, sweet word been sung insong and told in story. And he sang ...
I here engageUpon this page A picture to portray,Of two of an ageYet neither a sage, But right honest hearts have they.Each ...
'TIS hard to die in Spring-time, When, to mock our bitter need,All life around runs over In its fullness without heed:New life ...
IShe walks with the wind on the windy heightWhen the rocks are loud and the waves are white,And all night ...
THE dreamy earth is flooded o'erWith warm and hazy light,September's latest boon, beforeShe feels the hoar frost in the night;And, ...
I sit when the shadows are stealing The light of departing day, And think of the scenes and pleasures I enjoyed in my ...
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