Poems

A Winter Day: Morning Yon ridge of trees against the frosty east Of Morn, how thin, how fine, how spiritualised Their fringe of naked branches, and […]

A Winter Day: Noon And Afternoon Creep out and in, and shiver all the day. But take the country wide, conquer the cold, And in your […]

An Evening Walk The Patriarch mild, who mused at evening-tide, Saw blessings come: they who with ordered feet Go forth like him, their blessings too shall […]

Belshazzar’s Feast The lights of joy at midnight hour Were up in ancient Babylon. Beauty and Pleasure, Pride and Power, Were gathered round Belshazzar’s Throne. In […]

Byron A sunburst of heaven Smote that Mountain of Wonder, With its summit all riven In the ranges of thunder: The seat of the mighty, The […]

Captive Of Fez: Canto V: The Fire Behold Zenone, as she sits by night, All pale and pensive, robed in virgin white! Her chief of eunuchs […]

Evening Those shouts proclaim the village school is out. This way and that, the children break in groups; Some by the sunny stile, and meadow path, […]

Fall of Babylon ‘Twas midnight hour—in that deep hour Proud lights were up in Babylon; Each palace-hall was pleasure’s bower, Yet sat the king as if […]

Fancy Thunder-palls through gorges trailing, In their skirts the raven sailing; Slanting shafts of showery light Strike, wet and warm, the woodlands bright,— The melting woodlands […]

First Tale: Herodion and Azala: Part One High mission theirs and blest! the Prophets share Jehovah’s mind, Jehovah’s word they bear From land to land, to […]