The Lady’s Lament
The Lady’s Lament Never happy any more! Aye, turn the saying o’er and o’er, It says but what it said before, And heart and life are […]
READ MOREThe Last Three From Trafalgar…
The Last Three From Trafalgar… IN grappled ships around The Victory, Three boys did England’s Duty with stout cheer, While one dread truth was kept from […]
READ MOREThe Mirror
The Mirror SHE knew it not:—most perfect pain To learn: this too she knew not. Strife For me, calm hers, as from the first. ‘Twas but […]
READ MOREThe Orchard-Pit
The Orchard-Pit The Orchard-Pit Piled deep below the screening apple-branch They lie with bitter apples in their hands: And some are only ancient bones that blanch, […]
READ MOREThe Passover In The Holy Family (For A Drawing)
The Passover In The Holy Family (For A Drawing) Here meet together the prefiguring day And day prefigured. “Eating, thou shalt stand, Feet shod, loins girt, […]
READ MOREThe Portrait
The Portrait This is her picture as she was: It seems a thing to wonder on, As though mine image in the glass Should tarry when […]
READ MOREThe Sea-Limits
The Sea-Limits CONSIDER the sea’s listless chime: Time’s self it is, made audible,— The murmur of the earth’s own shell. Secret continuance sublime Is the sea’s […]
READ MOREThe Seed of David (For a Picture)
The Seed of David (For a Picture) Christ sprang from David Shepherd, and even so From David King, being born of high and low. The Shepherd […]
READ MOREThe Sin Of Detection
The Sin Of Detection SHE bowed her face among them all, as one By one they rose and went. A little scorn They showed—a very little. […]
READ MOREThe Song Of The Bower
The Song Of The Bower SAY, is it day, is it dusk in thy bower, Thou whom I long for, who longest for me? Oh! be […]
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