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In Memoriam A. H. H.: 22

© Alfred Tennyson

Who broke our fair companionship,
And spread his mantle dark and cold,
And wrapt thee formless in the fold,
And dull'd the murmur on thy lip,

Sing me a home beyond the stars, and if the song be fair,
I'll dwell awhile with melody--as long as mortal dare.
But sing me to the earth again on wide, descending wings,
That I may not forget the touch of homely human things.

Third Sunday After Trinity

© John Keble

O hateful spell of Sin! when friends are nigh,
To make stern Memory tell her tale unsought,
And raise accusing shades of hours gone by,
To come between us and all kindly thought!

Haunted

© Dora Sigerson Shorter

How restless are the dead whose silent feet will stray

In to our lone retreat or solitary way;

Consalvo

© Giacomo Leopardi

Approaching now the end of his abode

On earth, Consalvo lay; complaining once,

The Dangerous Little Boy Fairies

© Vachel Lindsay

In fairyland the little boys

Would rather fight than eat their meals.

Moses

© Thomas Parnell

Ile sing to God, Ile Sing ye songs of praise
To God triumphant in his wondrous ways,
To God whose glorys in the Seas excell,
Where the proud horse & prouder rider fell.

The Forest Greeting

© Paul Laurence Dunbar

GOOD hunting! aye, good hunting,

Wherever the forests call;

To Italy

© Percy Bysshe Shelley

As the sunrise to the night,
As the north wind to the clouds,
As the earthquake's fiery flight,
Ruining mountain solitudes,
Everlasting Italy,
Be those hopes and fears on thee.

Portents

© Madison Julius Cawein

ABOVE the world a glare

Of sunset guns and spears;

The Lady of the Lake: Canto V. - The Combat

© Sir Walter Scott

I.
Fair as the earliest beam of eastern light,
When first, by the bewildered pilgrim spied,
It smiles upon the dreary brow of night

On Seeing Anthony, The Eldest Child Of Lord And Lady Ashley

© Caroline Norton

And seeing thee, thou lovely boy,
My soul, reproach'd, gave up its schemes
Of worldly triumph's heartless joy,
For purer and more sinless dreams,
And mingled in my farewell there
Something of blessing and of prayer.

A Description Of The Countreys Recreations

© Sir Henry Wotton

Quivering fears, Heart-tearing cares,

Anxious sighs, Untimely tears,

Oscar Of Alva: A Tale

© George Gordon Byron

How sweetly shines through azure skies,
The lamp of heaven on Lora's shore;
Where Alva's hoary turrets rise,
And hear the din of arms no more!

Pretence. Part I - Table-Talk

© John Kenyon

The youth, who long hath trod with trusting feet,
Starts from the flash which shows him life's deceit;
Then, with slow footstep, ponders, undeceived,
On all his heart, for many a year, believed;
But hence he eyes the world with sharpened view,
And learns, too soon, to separate false from true.

The Season

So sings the river through the summer days,
And I, submissive, follow what I praise.
What if my boyish blood would rather stay
Where lawns invite, where bonnibels delay,
Though but a youth and not averse from these,
To conflict called, I abdicate my ease,

Eleonora Duse As Magda

The theatre is still, and Duse speaks.
What charm possesses all,
And what a bloom let fall
On parted lips, and eyes, and flushing cheeks!

England And Spain

Illustrious names! still, still united beam,
Be still the hero's boast, the poet's theme:
So when two radiant gems together shine,
And in one wreath their lucid light combine;
Each, as it sparkles with transcendant rays,
Adds to the lustre of its kindred blaze.