Bryan Waller Procter
Best-known poems
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History of a Life
Day dawned;—within a curtained room,
Filled to faintness with perfume,
A lady lay at point of doom. … -
The Hunter’s Song
Rise! Sleep no more! ’T is a noble morn.
The dews hang thick on the fringèd thorn,
And the frost shrinks back like a beaten hound, …
All poems (13)
- A Petition to TimeTouch us gently, Time!
- Address to the OceanO Thou vast Ocean! ever-sounding Sea!
- History of a LifeDay dawned;—within a curtained room,
- LifeWe are born; we laugh; we weep;
- The Blood HorseGamarra is a dainty steed,
- The Hunter’s SongRise! Sleep no more! ’T is a noble morn.
- The MistletoeWhen winter nights grow long,
- The OwlIn the hollow tree, in the old gray tower,
- The Poet’s Song to His WifeHow many summers, love,
- The SeaThe Sea! the sea! the open sea!
- The White SquallThe Sea was bright, and the bark rode well;
- “Sit down, sad soul”Sit down, sad soul, and count
- “Softly woo away her breath”Gentle death!