Aloof (Christina Rossetti Poems)
THE irresponsive silence of the land, The irresponsive sounding of the sea, Speak both one message of one sense to ...
THE irresponsive silence of the land, The irresponsive sounding of the sea, Speak both one message of one sense to ...
In the rectory garden on his evening walk Paced brisk Father Shawn. A cold day, a sodden one it was ...
Thinking, tangling shadows in the deep solitude. You are far away too, oh farther than anyone. Thinking, freeing birds, dissolving ...
Thy soul shall find itself alone 'Mid dark thoughts of the grey tomb-stone; Not one, of all the crowd, to ...
Once it smiled a silent dell Where the people did not dwell; They had gone unto the wars, Trusting to ...
Lo! 'tis a gala night Within the lonesome latter years. An angel throng, bewinged, bedight In veils, and drowned in ...
Margaret Simpson was the daughter of humble parents in the county of Ayr, With a comely figure, and face of ...
Ho, a day Whereon we may up and away, With a fetterless wind that is out on the downs, And ...
Comrades, up! Let us row down stream in this first rare dawnlight, While far in the clear north-west the late ...
Lo, find we here when the ripe day is o'er A kingdom of enchantment by the shore! Behold the sky ...
I lash and writhe against my prison bars, And watch with sullen eyes the gaping crowd . . Give me ...
we are succulents our cool jade arms open over clean tables our fine bone china minds pull the strings of ...
How vainly men themselves amaze To win the Palm, the Oke, or Bayes; And their uncessant Labours see Crown'd from ...
HOW vainly men themselves amaze To win the palm, the oak, or bays, And their uncessant labours see Crown'd from ...
Descend from Heaven, Urania, by that name If rightly thou art called, whose voice divine Following, above the Olympian hill ...
The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he a while Thought him still speaking, ...
At first you will know not what they mean, And you may never know, And we may never tell you: ...
Passer-by, To love is to find your own soul Through the soul of the beloved one. When the beloved one ...
I, who erewhile the happy Garden sung By one man's disobedience lost, now sing Recovered Paradise to all mankind, By ...
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...
Mean while the heinous and despiteful act Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how He, in the serpent, had perverted ...
Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven firstborn, Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblam'd? since God ...
The Year's twelve daughters had in turn gone by, Of measured pace tho' varying mien all twelve, Some froward, some ...
My father used to say, "Superior people never make long visits, have to be shown Longfellow's grave nor the glass ...
A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before The Earl Of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wales. The Persons The ATTENDANT ...
"O Trade! O Trade! would thou wert dead! The Time needs heart -- 'tis tired of head: We're all for ...
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