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Christmas Week

... Otl) vtstmas ffl&lrrfc Three days more till the old year dies, And I'm, O, so tired of the things I hear It's The same to you and How Time L_ flies And How mild for the time of the year I Christmas ca ...

Published: Saturday 24 December 1921
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 145 | Page: Page 18 | Tags: Poem 

Ad Astra

... 3 ti a s t r a Over the parapet at dawn He led his men through shot and shell For him the light that round them shone Was quenched for ever at Gavrclle. God sends us death. We are not swept Before the ...

Published: Saturday 24 November 1917
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 90 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: Poem 

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 

DESERVES · ANOTHER

... great a foul 05 o frierifc, oriiJ nou'll fini> in the rrii> ghe wise ore the poorest consolers, flt o pchonf gottU chaff- of a fool mnt uill lough ^tti humours the best of rajolers. 0h it's totsc to h ...

Published: Wednesday 01 December 1909
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 71 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Illustrations  Poem