IN trellised shed with clustering roses gay, And, MARY! oft beside our blazing fire, When yeas of wedded life were as a day Whose current answers to the heart’s desire,…
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NOW joy for you who from the towers Of Brancepeth look in doubt and fear, Telling melancholy hours! Proclaim it, let your Masters hear That Norton with his band is…
WHY comes not Francis?–From the doleful City He fled,–and, in his flight, could hear The death-sounds of the Minster-bell: That sullen stroke pronounced farewell To Marmaduke, cut off from pity!…
“Powers there are That touch each other to the quick–in modes Which the gross world no sense hath to perceive, No soul to dream of.” THOU Spirit, whose angelic hand…
THE Harp in lowliness obeyed; And first we sang of the greenwood shade And a solitary Maid; Beginning, where the song must end, With her, and with her sylvan Friend;…
‘Tis night: in silence looking down, The Moon, from cloudless ether, sees A Camp, and a beleaguered Town, And Castle, like a stately crown On the steep rocks of winding…
FROM Bolton’s old monastic tower The bells ring loud with gladsome power; The sun shines bright; the fields are gay With people in their best array Of stole and doublet,…
HIGH on a point of rugged ground Among the wastes of Rylstone Fell Above the loftiest ridge or mound Where foresters or shepherds dwell, An edifice of warlike frame Stands…
I “BEGONE, thou fond presumptuous Elf,” Exclaimed an angry Voice, “Nor dare to thrust thy foolish self Between me and my choice!” A small Cascade fresh swoln with snows Thus…
RIGHT gladly had the horses stirred, When they the wished-for greeting heard, The whip’s loud notice from the door, That they were free to move once more. You think, those…