Elegy (John Anster Poems)
Oh breathe not--breathe not--sure 'twas something holy--Earth hath no sounds like these--again it passesWith a wild, low voice, that slowly ...
Oh breathe not--breathe not--sure 'twas something holy--Earth hath no sounds like these--again it passesWith a wild, low voice, that slowly ...
"Hey, Bud! O Bud!" rang out a gleeful call,--"_The Loehrs is come to your house!_" And a smallBut very much ...
Does death cleanse the stains of the spirit When sundered at last from the clay,Or keep we thereafter till judgment, Desires that ...
I stood at eve, as the sun went down, by a grave where a woman lies,Who lured men's souls to ...
IThen first I knew, seeing that bent grey head,How England honours all her thousand dead.Then first I knew how faith ...
SPRING, COAST RANGEThe glow of my campfire is dark red and flameless,The circle of white ash widens around it.I get ...
It is Christmas Day in the Workhouse,And the cold bare walls are brightWith garlands of green and holly,And the place ...
IOld Hezekiah leaned hard on his hoeAnd squinted long at Eben, his lank son.The silence shrilled with crickets. Day was ...
The doves that coo in ColomenAre never heard by mortal men,But when a human creature passesUnderneath the churchyard grasses,In deep ...
I'm a grandchild of the Gods Who on th' Amstel have abodes; Whence their orders forth are sent Swift for ...
1Those were our freedoms, and we come to this: The climbing road that lures the climbing feet Is lost: there lies no ...
Do you know the way that goes Over fields of rue and rose,-- Warm of scent and hot of hue, Roofed with heaven's ...
1 How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven ...
The moon-cradle's rocking and rocking,Where a cloud and a cloud goes by:Silently rocking and rocking,The moon-cradle out in the sky.The ...
A hall it was, where myriad lamps a richer daylight made,And folds of falling purple gave harmony to shade;And odours, ...
The pride o' the clachan, the rose o' the glen,The flower o' oor lasses was Mary Muiren;Sae modest, an' mensefu', ...
XIThus when the Lord discovered had, and seenThe hidden secrets of each worthy's breast,Out of the hierarchies of angels sheenThe ...
A bachelor gray, was Valentine Brown;He lived in a mansion just out of the town,A mansion spacious and grand;He was ...
Here on the blind verge of infinityWe live ard move like moles. Our crumbling trenchGapes like a long wound in ...
These, as they change, Almighty Father, theseAre but the varied God. The rolling yearIs full of thee. Forth in the ...
I THE DARKIn a worldless timeless lightless great emptiness Four-faced Brahma broods.nasad asin, no sad asit tadanim;nasid raja no vioma paro yat.kim ...
II am a child of the valley.Mud and muck and misery of lowlandsare on thin tracks of my feet.Damp draughts ...
I. SPRING ON THE HILLSAh, shall I follow, on the hills,The Spring, as wild wings follow?Where wild-plum trees make wan ...
Hail, thou observed of many lands, Let all thy banners be unfurled,This brilliant act of thine commands The commendations of the world;And ...
1A sudden bliss has seized my mind,And to a mountain peak it carries meUp where the wind's forgotten how to ...
WITH a cold and wintry noon-light.On its roofs and steeples shed,Shadows weaving with t e sunlightFrom the gray sky overhead,Broadly, ...
Venus fair did ride, Silver doves they drew herBy the pleasant lawns, Ere the sun did rise;Vesta's beauty rich Opened wide to view ...
Turn the light down, nurse, and leave me, while I hold my last review,For the Bush is slipping from me, ...
I.SEE where the man wakes late from his dreaming,Late in the night from the sleep that has been;See where regret ...
Having interred her infant-birth,The watery ground that late did mourn,Was strewed with flowers for the returnOf the wished bridegroom of ...
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