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BEFORE THE ATTACK

... Patience, O comrades, the time will come When the signal gun shall flash, Arid the blare of bugle and roll of drum Shalljoin with the rifle's crash. Then the ranks of the foe shall b ...

Published: Saturday 20 August 1870
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 166 | Page: Page 14 | Tags: Poem 

ROSE LEAVES

... Sans peser Sans r ester. These are leaves of my rose, Pink petals I treasure There is more than one knows In the leaves of my rose O, the joys, O, the woes They are quite beyond measure. ...

Published: Saturday 23 May 1874
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 263 | Page: Page 19 | Tags: Poem 

A HARVEST SONG

... Oh what days are like to these Autumn days, When we tramp through the misty morn When the sweep' of .the scythe the barley lays, And the sickle reaps through the corn We plough, we sow, ...

Published: Saturday 07 September 1872
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 191 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Poem 

THE DEATH WATCH

... O PROUD Medical Science, Had you no self-reliance, That, to champion the cause Of Nature's strict laws, You ran this fierce tilt At a child's childish guilt-- A crazy hysterical, Fed w ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1870
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 137 | Page: Page 22 | Tags: Poem 

A SAILOR'S GOLDEN WEDDING

... HUSBAND I. COME sit ye down beside me, Ann, my Annie kind and leal: This is our golden wedding day, and we are spared and weel, And we are spared and weel, lassie, tho' age m ...

Published: Saturday 12 August 1882
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 480 | Page: Page 18 | Tags: Poem 

FAREWELL! GOD SPEED!

... FAREWELL GOD SPEED Northward Old England points her sons once more Earth's crowning gem is at her heart again Farewells are rising to each lip, and thronging to the shore Hoard them, ye gallant men Fa ...

Published: Saturday 29 May 1875
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 387 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Poem 

THE EXPRESS

... Swift, flying, dashing, whirling fast, Streams, rocks, and towns, and meadows pa: t, Such charming glimpses here and there Of rural scenes, such landscapes fair, So lovely here, that one w ...

Published: Saturday 21 April 1877
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 166 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Poem 

HER VALENTINE

... A maiden stands at the window pane, Anxiously watching the ceaseless rain, Watching for something alas in vain A Valentine. The post has come and the post has gone, Leaving the maiden al ...

Published: Saturday 09 February 1878
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 168 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Poem 

THE FOOLS OF APRIL

... THROUGH the mad March weather Violets mock the snow, Birds of every feather Make Love's music flow: April, dim newcomer, Smiling seems to say-- Lo! imperial Summer Glows upon the wa ...

Published: Saturday 01 April 1876
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 207 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Poem 

TO A FICKLE FRIEND

... Do you remember, one fair summer day, When on a cliff which overlooked the bay, We stood together? And about our feet The tangled grasses clustered wildly sweet. And bright amidst t ...

Published: Saturday 02 June 1883
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 221 | Page: Page 22 | Tags: Poem 

ON AN EMPTY HOUSE

... By SIR LEWIS MORRIS A STATELY house I passed to-day, Familiar when the world was gay. Blind casements, railings red with rust, Dumb doorways choked with leaves and dust; How the year ...

Published: Saturday 25 June 1898
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 318 | Page: Page 60 | Tags: Poem 

SPRING

... 1 When the white hands of April are fillable With blossoms that odorous are, When the cuckoo's delicious dissyllable Is heard in the woodlands afar When the clouds, as if Phcebus had chidden 'e ...

Published: Saturday 14 May 1870
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 235 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Poem