Robert Parkes (Henry Kendall Poems)
High travelling winds by royal hill Their awful anthem sing,And songs exalted flow and fill The caverns of the spring.To-night across a ...
High travelling winds by royal hill Their awful anthem sing,And songs exalted flow and fill The caverns of the spring.To-night across a ...
FORGET not, on my blessing, thrice a-day,Thy bounden sacrifice of praise to bring,And on thy bended knees devoutly prayBefore thy ...
I, walking the familiar street, While a crammed horse-car jingled through it,Was lifted from my prosy feet And in Arcadia ere I ...
I sat beside the glowing grate, fresh heapedWith Newport coal, and as the flame grew bright--The many-coloured flame--and played and ...
In the Borghese, Caravaggio, painter of boy whores, street punk, exile & murderer,Left behind his own face in the decapitated, ...
I.Peradventure of old, some bard in Ionian Islands, Walking alone by the sea, hearing the wash of the waves,Learned the secret ...
(A TRUE STORY)He died among the flowers, when dawn was leapingLike a freed lion through the sever'd east;'Twere but a ...
To thee, O father of the stately peaks,Above me in the loftier light — to thee,Imperial brother of those awful ...
A MODERNIZED VERSIONI DON'T think I feel much older; I'm aware I'm rather gray,But so are many young folks; I ...
'It happened in 1803,' began my old acquaintance, 'not long beforeAusterlitz. The regiment in which I was an officer was ...
Leonardo imagined the first one.The next was a pole lathe with a drive cord,illustrated in Plumier's L'art de tourner en ...
CALM and fair Flows the stream of Nora's life, Moving with a lazy air Far from strife. Goddesses Must have ...
Let me talk of years evanished, let me harp upon the timeWhen we trod these sands together, in our boyhood's ...
walkingin the eveningalong the banksof the creek, as the sky is lighted by the glowfrom the hothouses, farther on the ...
I read upon that book,Which down the golden gulf doth let us lookOn the sweet days of pastoral majesty; I read ...
The crocus rose from her snowy bedAs she felt the spring's caresses,And the willow from her graceful headShook out her ...
Sunny summer day it was when loping in to Laramie,I overtook the Walking Man, reined up and nodded "How!!"He'd been ...
Still through Egypt's desert places Flows the lordly Nile,From its banks the great stone faces Gaze with patient smile.Still the pyramids imperious Pierce ...
White Rose, talk to me!I don't know what to do.Why do you say no word to me,Who say so much ...
All the loud winds were in the garden wood,All shadows joyfuller than lissom houndsDoubled in chasing, all exultant cloudsThat ever ...
She says she's very sorry, as she sees you to the gate; You calmly say 'Good-bye' to her while standing off ...
As I sat smoking, alone, yesterday, And lazily leaning back in my chair, Enjoying myself in a general way-- Allowing my thoughts a ...
Those twenty-six letters filling the blackboardCompose the dark, composeThe illiterate summer sky & its stars as they appearOne by one, ...
In my dream, methought I trod,Yesternight, a mountain road;Narrow as Al Sirat's span,High as eagle's flight, it ran.Overhead, a roof ...
Glad boyish voices with merriment ring,Two children with nought, as gayly they singOf burdensome care, their hearts as the birdTo ...
THE storm had raved its furious soul away;O'er its wild ruins Twilight, spectral, gray,Stole like a nun, 'midst wounded men ...
When I lived, many years ago, in Petersburg, every time I chanced to hire asledge, I used to get into ...
Once a turtle, finding plenty In seclusion to bewitch, Lived a dolce far niente Kind of life within a ditch; Rivers had no charm ...
'Twas eventide. Along the dusty road Two weary travelers passed with aching feetAnd heavy hearts, while each in saddened tones The story ...
I walk the silent, Christmas-snowy path,that goes across the homeland in its suffering.At each doorstep I would like to bend ...
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