Sonnets (Peter John Allan Poems)
I.Leaving his mountain eyrie far behind, On mighty pinions swiftly borne away, The eagle bathes his plumage in the day—Such flight is ...
I.Leaving his mountain eyrie far behind, On mighty pinions swiftly borne away, The eagle bathes his plumage in the day—Such flight is ...
Drawn up in three divisions, soon as the English foundThat the Frenchmen were advancing, they started from the ground,Alarm'd, and burning in ...
I STOOD upon a mountain, lip to lipWith rosy morning, and her breathing cameRefreshingly upon my fever'd brow;I felt my ...
We do not know each other—'tis the phraseOf the cold, artful world which I abhor;But in my heart I hear ...
Thou ancient pine! beneath whose lofty shade, Pensive I watch the sun's declining ray,Thy glorious crown no scorching sun can fade, Nor ...
Before Granada's fated walls the Christian legions stand,A numerous and a valiant—but why a sullen band?The politic, wise Ferdinand's injunctions they ...
I was a wanderer in the land of dreams, And winged fancies met me by the way,Fairer than morning's beams;With the ...
I.Oh, scan not too closely a heart that is thine,Whatever its error or frailties may be ;Believe not, my love, ...
I.Thou glorious painter of the thoughts that dwellIn the hot brain of genius, it was thineTo live in the delusion ...
WRITTEN FOR MY DEAR LITTLE FRIEND, J. M. A LEAFLET fair, In the summer air, Had echoed the zephyr's laugh, And smiled full bright, In ...
DEEP in the forest glade I laid me downAnd slept; then did this vision come upon meSublimely terrible! Methought I sawThe ...
IN the caliph's garden, known as the Odoriferous, bloomed one day a stately rose;As the favourite sultana is queen of the ...
What mean the mournful wailings heard 'mid Scotia's mountains blue?What mean the grievous groans that pass her twilight valleys through?The spirits of ...
Oh! silent lute, when will thy silver chordsGive the light wings of melody to words—Words sweet as are the lips ...
Away, o'er the ocean depths, away,Like a vulture fierce when he scents his prey, The pirate ship is gone!The sable flag ...
Who is she, from whose haggard eyesThe deadly lightning of passion flies?She stands upon the Leucadian height,Gazing, entranced, on the ...
LOVER."Tell me not that she is dead,Motionless and cold;Her form was made for summer flowers,And not of common mould." MESSENGER."But summer ...
Oh! gentlest nightingale,Once more thy plaintive tale Repeat—repeat to me;It will be passing sweetMy own sad thoughts to greet, In thy soft ...
To what shall we compare the happiness of youth?When all things are fair unto our eyes, and the blos- soms of ...
There lay in the shade of a cypress tree, A pilgrim dark from a far country; His eyes were bright with a ...
A WOUNDED warrior knelt apart, On the battle-field knelt he;There was anguish in his iron heart, And tears bedimm'd his ee.And wept ...
The angels best beloved of Heaven,Stand ever nearest to the throne;To these, and but to these, is given,Unveil'd their glorious ...
I KNEW a little maiden, Than falling snows more fair,Her laughing eye was azure, And golden was her hair.Her voice was sweetest ...
Renown'd for lyric and satiric lay, A two-fold poet, IShall on strong wing be upward borne Above the liquid sky;No more shall ...
The fairy world is just like ours-There bloom again our faded flowers;Transplanted hence by magic spell-And how, I know - ...
1When she gave me those violets now fading away,But dearer than roses bright-blooming to day,She cried with a smile, for ...
Open, ye gates of Paradise, Be sheathed, O flaming sword.She comes, the gentle sinless child, To meet her sinless Lord.Ye angels, greet ...
BLUE-EYED saint from heaven low bending, Grant, oh, grant a mortal's prayer,From her broken heart ascending Through the silent midnight air.Thou, O ...
Love caught me (yet a little boy),And bound me with his chains of joy;Then with his fillet sealed mine eyes,To ...
When from this prison-house of clayMy vexed spirit shall pass away,To the mighty land of eternity,Oh, lay me not among ...
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