English Eclogues I – The Old Mansion-House (Robert Southey Poems)
STRANGER.Old friend! why you seem bent on parish duty,Breaking the highway stones,--and 'tis a taskSomewhat too hard methinks for age ...
STRANGER.Old friend! why you seem bent on parish duty,Breaking the highway stones,--and 'tis a taskSomewhat too hard methinks for age ...
Aye Charles! I knew that this would fix thine eye,This woodbine wreathing round the broken porch,Its leaves just withering, yet ...
JANE.Harry! I'm tired of playing. We'll draw roundThe fire, and Grandmamma perhaps will tell usOne of her stories.HARRY.Aye--dear Grandmamma!A pretty ...
It was a summer evening,Old Kaspar's work was done,And he before his cottage doorWas sitting in the sun,And by him ...
It was a summer evening; Old Kaspar's work was done, And he before his cottage door Was sitting in the ...
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