That night your great guns, unawares, Shook all our coffins as we lay, And broke the chancel window-squares, We thought it was the Judgment-day And sat upright. While drearisome Arose the howl of wakened hounds: The mouse let fall the altar-crumb, The worms drew back into…
Plunging and labouring on in a tide of visions, Dolorous and dear,Forward I pushed my way as amid waste waters Stretching around,Through whose eddies there glimmered the customed landscape …
A senseless School, where we must giveOur lives that we may learn to live!A dolt is he who memorizesLessons that leave no time for prizes.
Coomb-Firtrees say that Life is a moan, And Clyffe-hill Clump says ” Yea!”But Yell’ham says a thing of its own: It’s not ” Gray, gray …
Forty years back, when much had placeThat since has perished out of mind,I heard that voice and saw that face. He spoke as one afoot will windA morning horn ere men awake;His note was trenchant, turning kind. He was of…
“And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times. Isaiah xxxiii. 6. I looked and thought, “All is too gray and coldTo wake my place-enthusiasms of old!”Till a voice passed: “Behind that granite mienLurks the imposing beauty of…
A baby watched a ford, whereto A wagtail came for drinking;A blaring bull went wading through, The wagtail showed no shrinking. A stallion splashed his way across, The birdie nearly sinking;He gave his plumes a twitch and toss, And held…
Down comes the winter rain — Spoils my hat and bow —Runs into the poll of me; But mother won’t know. We’ve been out and caught a cold, Knee-deep in snow;Such a lucky thing…
I “We moved with pensive paces, I and he, And bent our faded faces Wistfully,For something troubled him, and troubled me. “The lanthorn feebly lightened …
When I am in hell or some such place, A-groaning over my sorry case, What will those seven women say to me Who, when I coaxed them, answered “Aye” to me? “I did not understand your sign!” Will be the…
