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THE HYMN
2023-12-06It was the winter wild While the heaven-born Child All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies; Nature in awe to Him Had doff'd her gaudy trim With h...
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Lycidas
2023-12-06YET once more O ye laurels and once more Ye myrtles brown with ivy never sere I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude And with forced fingers rud...
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Jean
2023-12-06OF a' the airts the wind can blaw I dearly like the west For there the bonnie lassie lives The lassie I lo'e best. There wild woods grow and r...
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Love's Secret
2023-12-06NEVER seek to tell thy love Love that never told can be; For the gentle wind doth move Silently invisibly. I told my love I told my love I told her al...
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Pressed by the moon,mute arbitress of tides, While the loud equinox its power combines, The sea no more the swelling surge confines, But o'er the ...
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To a Lady on the Death of Her Husband
2023-12-06Grim monarch! see,depriv'd of vital breath, A young physician in the dust of death: Dost thou go on incessant to destroy, Our griefs to double,and...
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"She walks in beauty like the night"
2023-12-06SHE walks in beauty like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies And all that's best of dark and bright Meets in her aspect and her eyes; T...
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"There be none of Beauty's daughters"
2023-12-06THERE be none of Beauty's daughters With a magic like thee; And like music on the waters Is thy sweet voice to me: When as if its sound were causi...
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On Being Brought from Africa to America
2023-12-06'Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land, Taught my benighted soul to understand That there's a God,that there's a Saviour too: Once I re...
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Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening
2023-12-06Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village, though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My l...