FRIEND, thou beholdest the ligh… To decree which rock-ridge shall r… Which crown among palms shall go d… While the floods drown the sere wa… First for my eyes, above all, he m…

They christened my brother of old— And a saintly name he bears— They gave him his place to hold At the head of the belfry—stairs, Where the minster—towers stand

BEES! BEES! Hark to your bees! “Hide from your neighbours as much… But all that has happened, to us y… Or else we will give you no honey… A maiden in her glory,

There was a Priest at Philae, Tongue-tied, feeble, and old; And the daily prayer to the Virgi… Was all the Office he could. The others were ill-remembered,

Like Princes crowned they bore… Like Demi-Gods they wrought, When the New World lay before the… In headlong fact and thought. Fate and their foemen proved them

THE eldest son bestrides him, And the pretty daughter rides him, And I meet him oft o’ mornings on… And there kindles in my bosom An emotion chill and gruesome

AFTER the sack of the City, whe… In the years that the Lights were… Low on the borders of Britain, th… Between the Cliff and the Forest… Stubborn all were his people, a st…

Old Mother Laidinwool had nigh tw… She heard the hops was doing well,… For said she: “The lads I’ve… They’re bound to be at hopping an… Let me up and go

OR ever the battered liners sank With their passengers to the dark, I was head of a Walworth Bank, And you were a grocer’s clerk. I was a dealer in stocks and share…

When the flush of a new—born sun f… Our father Adam sat under the Tre… And the first rude sketch that the… Till the Devil whispered behind t… Wherefore he called to his wife, a…

He wandered down the mountain grad… Beyond the speed assigned— A youth whom Justice often stayed And generally fined. He went alone, that none might kno…

The wrecks dissolve above us; thei… Down to the dark, to the utter dar… There is no sound, no echo of soun… Or the great grey level plains of… Here in the womb of the world —her…

China—going P. & O.'s Pass Pau Amma’s playground close, And his Pusat Tasek lies Near the track of most B.I.'s. N.Y.K. and N.D.L.

WHO recalls the twilight and the… (Violet peaks uplifted through the… And the clink of iron teacups and… And the faces of the Sisters with… (Now and not hereafter, while the…