I have a king who does not speak
I have a king who does not speak; So, wondering, thro' the hours meek I trudge the day away,-- Half glad when it is night and sleep,
PoemSpeech
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Politics & Power Poems
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The Irish Avatar
Ere the daughter of Brunswick is cold in her grave, And her ashes still float to their home o'er the tide, Lo! George the triumphant speeds over the wave, To the long-cherished Isle which he loved like his--bride.
PoemFreedom
4.4KFrom Vergil's Fourth Georgic
[VERSES 360 ET SEQ.] And the cloven waters like a chasm of mountains Stood, and received him in its mighty portal And led him through the deep's untrampled fountains
PoemDeath
930Birthday Ode for 31st December, 1787
AFAR 1 the illustrious Exile roams, Whom kingdoms on this day should hail; An inmate in the casual shed, On transient pity’s bounty fed,
PoemPolitics & Power
1.6KBonny Lassie O!
O the evening's for the fair, bonny lassie O! To meet the cooler air and walk an angel there, With the dark dishevelled hair, Bonny lassie O!
PoemNature
3.4KSonnet 139: O! Call not me to justify the wrong
O! call not me to justify the wrong That thy unkindness lays upon my heart; Wound me not with thine eye, but with thy tongue: Use power with power, and slay me not by art,
PoemPain
5KSatire II
'Quid vetat et nosmet Lucilî scripta legentes Quaerere, num illius, num rerum dura negârit Versiculos natura magis factos, et euntes Mollius?' HOR. THE SATIRES OF DR JOHN DONNE, DEAN OF ST PAUL'S, VERSIFIED.
PoemPolitics & Power
7.1KTo a Locomotive in Winter
THEE for my recitative! Thee in the driving storm, even as now—the snow—the winter-day declining; Thee in thy panoply, thy measured dual throbbing, and thy beat convulsive; Thy black cylindric body, golden brass, and silvery steel;
PoemNature
1.4KSonnet XXVIII: To Such As Say
To such as say thy love I overprize, And do not stick to term my praises folly, Against these folks, that think themselves so wise, I thus oppose my Reason's forces wholly,
PoemWisdom
1.1KThe Great Franchise Demonstration
'Twas in the year of 1884, and on Saturday the 20th of September, Which the inhabitants of Dundee will long remember The great Liberal Franchise Demonstration, Which filled their minds with admiration.
PoemPolitics & Power
270Up at a Villa--Down in the City
_(As distinguished by an Italian person of quality.)_ Had I but plenty of money, money enough and to spare, The house for me, no doubt, were a house in the city square; Ah, such a life, such a life, as one leads at the window there!
PoemNature
190Psalm XLVI: God Is the Refuge
God is the refuge of his saints, When storms of sharp distress invade; Ere we can offer our complaints, Behold him present with his aid!
PoemGod & Faith
1.6KThe Coliseum
Type of the antique Rome! Rich reliquary Of lofty contemplation left to Time By buried centuries of pomp and power! At length--at length--after so many days
PoemTime
1.3KTranslation from the Gull Language
'Twas grav'd on the Stone of Destiny, In letters four, and letters three; And ne'er did the King of the Gulls go by But those awful letters scar'd his eye;
PoemFreedom
1.9KThe Parliament of Roses to Julia
I dreamt the Roses one time went To meet and sit in Parliament; The place for these, and for the rest Of flowers, was thy spotless breast.
PoemNature
3.8KFreedom
Freedom, as every schoolboy knows, Once shrieked as Kosciusko fell; On every wind, indeed, that blows I hear her yell.
PoemFreedom
1.1KDouble Ballade on the Nothingness of Things
The big teetotum twirls, And epochs wax and wane As chance subsides or swirls; But of the loss and gain
PoemPride
2.8KPraise for Faith
Of all the gifts Thine hand bestows, Thou Giver of all good! Not heaven itself a richer knows Than my Redeemer's blood.
PoemGod & Faith
8KThe Fatal Sisters
Now the storm begins to lower, (Haste, the loom of Hell prepares!) Iron-sleet of arrowy shower Hurtles in the darkened air.
PoemWar
1.8KOde to Winter
When first the fiery-mantled sun His heavenly race begun to run; Round the earth and ocean blue, His children four the Seasons flew.
PoemNature
4.8KThe Ocean Said to Me Once
The ocean said to me once, "Look! Yonder on the shore Is a woman, weeping.
PoemLove
800Farewell Love and All Thy Laws Forever
Farewell love and all thy laws forever; Thy baited hooks shall tangle me no more. Senec and Plato call me from thy lore To perfect wealth, my wit for to endeavour.
PoemLove
3KMithridates
I cannot spare water or wine, Tobacco-leaf, or poppy, or rose; From the earth-poles to the Line, All between that works or grows,
PoemNature
800On the Universality and Other Attributes of the God of Nature
ALL that we see, about, abroad, What is it all, but nature's God? In meaner works discovered here No less than in the starry sphere.
PoemGod & Faith
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