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... -v THE author of The Lord's Day, an essay attempted in verse (Glasgow: Thomas Murray), states in his introductory remarks that in blank (subaud: verse) the thoughts may fl ...
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BURNING THE CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS
... The proper rhyme for Christmas holly Should be some cheerful word like jolly, So I can't help feeling melancholy When undertaking a job like this. To think that all ...
Poem
... Blest was the sun of joy that shone i>or less inc uiiuumg >uuwu The bud of fifty years agone Is love's perfected flower. O Memory, ope the mystic door O beam of Youth return, And let the light that gl ...
MY CHINA
... How well I can remember, thougli it was long ago, Those little china figures, placed grimly in a row; And when, in some neat cottage, I see the same bright delf, Fond memory takes me back aga ...
SUMMONED TO THE WAR
... 'Tis the Fatherland that calls me, O my mother, 'Tis the Fatherland that calls me, O my wife, Calls me and many a sad-hearted brother From the quiet hopes and labours of our life. ...
CAPILLUS VENERIS
... A single strand of golden hair, How comes it here upon my shoulder Blown from the head of lady fair Where did I meet or last behold her I'm certain that she must be young. And pretty ...
TO A DÉBUTANTE: AT THE QUEEN'S DRAWING ROOM
... TO A DEBUTANTE At the Queen's Drawing Room. In spotless virgin white, With lilies, just a few, And here a diamond flash, And there a drop of dew As a fair ship new launched, With snowy sails unfurle ...
Tay Bridge
... teg Iriiige SUNDAY, DEC. 28, 1875 Oh Bonnie Dundee, Oh Bonnie Dundee, Thy sorrow is ours, and our hearts bleed for thee, As thou standest all speechless and stricken in woe, here thy river runs mad in ...
THE POET'S REPLY
... o You ask my inmost musing, dear, You set too hard a task Forgive my quick refusing, dear, Of aught that you can ask. But I will write you verses, dear, In measure smooth and fine Or ...
EPITHALAMIUM: FOR H.R.H. THE PRINCESS LOUISE
... EPITHALAMIUM For H.R.H. the Princess Louise March 21, 1871 I. GRANDER than thunder-peal, When parting clouds reveal The sudden lightning on the summer sky; Grander than wildest roar Of billows on the ...
Poem
... I. WHO has not gone, by rail or river, To dine where Richmond's aspens shiver, While far below, on winding Thames, The emerald islets shine like gems Perchance you've liked to do it grand And drive th ...
HER LITTLE SHOE!
... Little Blue Shoe sad little shoe Face that was tender- heart that was true 1 Full many and many a year has flown, Since into the sunlight she came And one there is left and one there ...