The Centurion (Ethel Clifford Poems)
Singing of victory through the night I go, and the stars above my headShine on my sword that fought ...
Singing of victory through the night I go, and the stars above my headShine on my sword that fought ...
AH! dear one, we were young so long,It seemed that youth would never go,For skies and trees were ever in ...
1.Oh, my chariot is swinging,Jesus, bring it near,Soft I hear the harp a-ringing,Jesus, bring it near,All my troubles are a-dying,Low ...
Saw ye nae my Peggy?Saw ye nae my Peggy?Saw ye Peggy comin' Thro' Tillibelton's broom?I'm frae Aberdagie,Owre the crafts o' ...
Whence came you,Wind from the sea,Singing throughThe casuarina tree?Across what lands forlornWhere your breath passesOver granite and gnarled thornAnd bending ...
Who is he, dying so hard? Hard is it to die- Die in the warmth of June, Bird and bee ...
Animal crackers and cocoa to drink,That is the finest of suppers I think;When I'm grown up and can have what ...
The wind that blows from the west Taps at my window, sighing; But I pull the curtains close, I'll hear ...
I brood not now upon the printed page, A nobler voice is in mine ears to-night,A voice in every ...
Scented soap and lily handsA long farewell to you!I'm away to foreign landsWith a hard-case crew.Luck to you, my gemmy ...
He truly loved the purple sun, descending from the hills,The ways through the woods, the singing blackbirdAnd the joys of ...
Flowers of summer, sweetly springing,Deck the dewy lap of earth; Birds of love are fondly singingIn their gay and jocund ...
THE last light wanes and drifts across the land, The low, long land, the sunny land of spires. The ghosts ...
Have you supped at the Inn of Apollo,While the last light fades from the West?Has the Lord of the Sun, ...
RISE, blossom of the spring, The dews of morn Still linger on the barren thorn; Arise, and sing! O! join ...
Last night, I dreamed of Nippon.... I saw a cloud of whiteDrifting before the sunset On seas of opal light.Beyond ...
When Desdemona sang a ditty- In her last hours among the living- It wasn't love that she lamented, And not ...
I still walk slowly on the river bankWhere I came singing,And where I saw your boat pass up beyond the ...
All day she quiet lay, lost in a trance,The closing shadows all of her embracing…The madcap rain of summer frisked ...
SOMETIMES my words wing with ease Much the same as the singing trees, Words and phrases formed complete, Empty, passionless ...
O fountain of Bandusia! Whence crystal waters flow,With garlands gay and wine I'll pay The sacrifice I owe;A sportive kid ...
O fountain of Bandusia, Whence crystal waters flow,With garlands gay and wine I'll pay The sacrifice I owe;A sportive kid ...
There are lights a-flashing in the harbour from the ships at anchor where they ride,And a dry wind going through ...
WOULD the lark sing the sweeter if he knew A thousand hearts hung breathless on his lay? And if "How ...
Like an azure vein from the heart of the main, Pulsing with joy for ever, By verdurous Isles, with dimpled ...
SILLY bird! When his mate is near, Not a note of singing shall you hear. Take his little love away, ...
HILLS that were born of ages, Heaving slowly from the deep, Are shaking down their tresses, Silver-threaded from the steep; ...
In the days before the high tide Swept away the towers of sandBuilt with so much care and labour By ...
Lift thy head, thou undaunted youth!Though some hope may now break, forsooth,Brighter a new one and higherShall throe eye fill ...
CAN you hear the sparrow in the lane Singing above the graves? she said.He knows my gladness, he knows ...
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