Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton

Poems (7)

• Forever Unconfessed

  They seemed to those who saw them meet / The worldly friends of every day, …

• Good Night and Good Morning

  A Fair little girl sat under a tree / Sewing as long as her eyes could see; …

• Hope of the Human Heart

  From “Anima Mundi” / GOD is good, …

• London Churches

  I Stood, one Sunday morning, / Before a large church door, …

• Shadows

  They seem'd, to those who saw them meet, / The casual friends of every day; …

• The Brookside

  I Wandered by the brookside, / I wandered by the mill; …

• To Thackeray

  O Gentler Censor of our age! / Prime master of our ampler tongue! …