English Poems – Page 205

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• The Ballad of Prose and Rhyme

  When the ways are heavy with mire and rut,
  In November fogs, in December snows,
  When the North Wind howls, and the doors are shut,— …

  Austin Dobson

• From “The Odyssey”

  Prefacing the Butcher-Lang Translation
  AS one that for a weary space has lain
  Lulled by the song of Circe and her wine …

  Andrew Lang

• Sonnet: “Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show”

  From “Astrophel and Stella”
  LOVING in truth, and fain in verse my love to show,
  That she, dear she, might take some pleasure of my pain,— …

  Sir Philip Sidney

• Broken Music

  “A note
  All out of tune in this world’s instrument.”
  —AMY LEVY. …

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

• The Modern Poet

  A Song of Derivations
  I COME from nothing; but from where
  Come the undying thoughts I bear? …

  Alice Meynell

• The Jester’s Plea

  [Published in a volume by several authors for the benefit of the starving weavers of Lancashire during the American civil war.]
  THE WORLD! Was jester ever in
  A viler than the present? …

  Frederick Locker-Lampson

• Verses, why Burnt

  How many verses have I thrown
  Into the fire because the one
  Peculiar word, the wanted most, …

  Walter Savage Landor

• Sweet Nature’s Voice

  From “Susan: A Poem of Degrees”
  HER Master gave the signal, with a look:
  Then, timidly as if afraid, she took …

  Arthur Joseph Munby

• “One day I wrote her name”

  From “Amoretti.” Sonnet LXXV.
  ONE day I wrote her name upon the strand,
  But came the waves, and washèd it away: …

  Edmund Spenser

• The Poet’s Death

  From “The Lay of the Last Minstrel,” Canto V.
  CALL it not vain:—they do not err,
  Who say, that when the poet dies, …

  Sir Walter Scott

• Thy Songs and Mine

  Sing thou my songs for me when I am dead!
  Soul of my soul, some day thou wilt awake
  To see the morning on the hilltops break, …

  Julia C. R. Dorr

• The Sharing of the Earth

  From the German by Lord Bulwer-Lytton
  “TAKE the world,” cried the God from his heaven
  To men—“I proclaim you its heirs; …

  Friedrich Schiller

• The Immortality of Genius

  From the Latin by Dr. James Cranstoun
  ORPHEUS, ’t is said, the Thracian lyre-strings sweeping,
  Stayed the swift stream and soothed the savage brute; …

  Propertius

• Books

  From “The Kaléder of Sheperdes,” 1528
  HE that many bokes redys,
  Cunnyinge shall he be. …

  Anonymous

• The Scholar

  From “Edwin the Fair”
  THIS life, and all that it contains, to him
  Is but a tissue of illuminous dreams …

  Sir Henry Taylor

• The Book-Stall

  It stands in a winding street,
  A quiet and restful nook,
  Apart from the endless beat …

  Clinton Scollard

• Influence of Music

  From “King Henry Eighth,” Act III. Sc. 1.
  ORPHEUS, with his lute, made trees,
  And the mountain-tops that freeze, …

  William Shakespeare

• A Song for Saint Cecilia’s Day, 1687

  From harmony, from heavenly harmony,
  This universal frame began;
  When Nature underneath a heap …

  John Dryden

• The Spell

  From the French by Gertrude Hall
  “Son joyeux, importun, d’un clavecin sonore.”
  —PÉTRUS BOREL. …

  Paul Verlaine

• The Passions

  An Ode for Music
  WHEN Music, heavenly maid, was young,
  While yet in early Greece she sung, …

  William Collins

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