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from fields far off whose watery hollows gleam aye with blown throats that make the long hours sweet the sleepless toads are murmuring in their dream	img2poems
and all day long i listen to the speech i see far off beyond mine outer shore the ocean flash and hear his harmless roar	img2poems
i repeat them as i heard them from the lips of nawadaha the musician the sweet singer	img2poems
master of life he cried desponding must our lives depend on these things	img2poems
you are but the pike kenozha you are not the fish i wanted you are not the king of fishes	img2poems
pleasant is the sound he murmured pleasant is the voice that calls me	img2poems
and the sisters and their husbands laughed until the echoing forest rang with their unseemly laughter	img2poems
hear him said they hear the wise man hear the plots of hiawatha	img2poems
ugh the old men all responded from their seats beneath the pine-trees	img2poems
thus was first made known to mortals all the mystery of medamin all the sacred art of healing	img2poems
`t was a youth of sixteen summers `t was a nephew of iagoo face-in-a-mist the people called him	img2poems
and the heron the shuh-shuh-gah from her haunts among the fen-lands screamed farewell o hiawatha	img2poems
then the maiden clasped her hands and prayed and she thought of christ who stilled the wave on the lake of galilee	img2poems
springtime ne'er denied indoors by vernal chaucer whose fresh woods throb thick with merle and mavis all the year	img2poems
gaf gyftys largelyche gold and sylver and clodes ryche to squyer and to knight	img2poems
what brings us thronging these high rites to pay and seal these hours the noblest of our year save that our brothers found this better way	img2poems
secure from change in their high-hearted ways beautiful evermore and with the rays of morn on their white shields of expectation	img2poems
we reck not what we gave thee we will not dare to doubt thee but ask whatever else and we will dare	img2poems
by bridge and ford by park and pale all-armed i ride whate'er betide until i find the holy grail	img2poems
one of six a willow pleiades the seventh fallen that lean along the brink where the steep upland dips into the marsh	img2poems
life's but a walking shadow a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more	img2poems
slowly sir launfal's eyes grew dim slumber fell like a cloud on him and into his soul the vision flew	img2poems
i ask no ampler skies than those his magic music rears above me no falser friends no truer foes	img2poems
around by lifting winds forgot resignedly beneath the sky the melancholy waters lie	img2poems
once this soft turf this rivulet's sands were trampled by a hurrying crowd encountered in the battle-cloud	img2poems
strange is thy pallor strange thy dress strange above all thy length of tress and this all solemn silentness	img2poems
let him who fears before the foemen shout or gives an inch before a vein has bled turn on himself and let the traitor out	img2poems
it was the schooner hesperus that sailed the wintry sea to bear him company	img2poems
had sailed to the spanish main i pray thee put into yonder port for i fear a hurricane	img2poems
i never thought to ask i never knew but in my simple ignorance suppose the self-same power that brought me there brought you	img2poems
why say 'sail on sail on and on	img2poems
three roses wan as moonlight and weighed down each with its loveliness as with a crown drooped in a florist's window in a town	img2poems
oh i am bound for arcady and if you but keep pace with me you tread the way to arcady	img2poems
perchance in some still garden-place where neither fount nor tree to-day is he flung the jewel at the feet	img2poems
these are the days when birds come back a very few a bird or two to take a backward look	img2poems
these are the days when skies put on the old old sophistries of june a blue and gold mistake	img2poems
oh fraud that cannot cheat the bee almost thy plausibility induces my belief	img2poems
till ranks of seeds their witness bear and softly through the altered air hurries a timid leaf	img2poems
oh sacrament of summer days oh last communion in the haze permit a child to join	img2poems
thy sacred emblems to partake thy consecrated bread to break taste thine immortal wine	img2poems
all that thou art not makes not up the sum all other voices wanting thine are dumb all vision in thine absence vacancy	img2poems
two by two the sparrows build high up in the orchard tree anna anna anna won't you marry me	img2poems
for i am sure what e'er has been my lot how meek how poor is more than i deserve unto thy will i bow and murmur not	img2poems
day by darkling day overpassing bears away somewhat of the burden of this weary may	img2poems
night by numbered night waning brings more near in sight hope that grows to vision of my heart's delight	img2poems
nearer seems to burn in the dawn's rekindling urn flame of fragrant incense hailing his return	img2poems
louder seems each bird in the brightening branches heard still to speak some ever more delightful word	img2poems
all the mists that swim round the dawns that grow less dim still wax brighter and more bright with hope of him	img2poems
all the suns that rise bring that day more near our eyes when the sight of him shall clear our clouded skies	img2poems
all the winds that roam fruitful fields or fruitless foam blow the bright hour near that brings his bright face home	img2poems
if rain should come on peradventure vain hope in us haply might venture to dream as it did	img2poems
bright as then for the souls of men thy brave arcadia resounds and shines lit with love that beholds above all joys and sorrows the steadfast signs faith a splendour that hope makes tender and truth whose presage the soul divines	img2poems
love that led thee alive and fed thy soul with sorrows and joys and fears love that sped thee alive and dead to fame's fair goal with thy peerless peers feeds the flame of thy quenchless name with light that lightens the rayless years	img2poems
shame and fear may beset men here and bid thanksgiving and pride be dumb faith discrowned of her praise and wound about with toils till her life wax numb scarce may see if the sundawn be if darkness die not and dayrise come	img2poems
yea but yet is thy sun not set thy sunbright spirit of trust withdrawn england's love of thee burns above all hopes that darken or fears that fawn hers thou art: and the faithful heart that hopes begets upon darkness dawn	img2poems
hills and valleys where april rallies his radiant squadron of flowers and birds steep strange beaches and lustrous reaches of fluctuant sea that the land engirds fields and downs that the sunrise crowns with life diviner than lives in words	img2poems
day by day of resurgent may salute the sun with sublime acclaim change and brighten with hours that lighten and darken girdled with cloud or flame earth's fair face in alternate grace beams blooms and lowers and is yet the same	img2poems
strong as time and as faith sublime clothed round with shadows of hopes and fears nights and morrows and joys and sorrows alive with passion of prayers and tears stands the shrine that has seen decline eight hundred waxing and waning years	img2poems
still the sun that beheld begun the work wrought here of unwearied hands sees as then though the red king's men held ruthless rule over lawless lands stand their massive design impassive pure and proud as a virgin stands	img2poems
statelier still as the years fulfil their count subserving her sacred state grows the hoary grey church whose story silence utters and age makes great statelier seems it than shines in dreams the face unveiled of unvanquished fate	img2poems
dead their names that the night reclaims alive their works that the day relumes sink and stand as in stone and sand engraven: none may behold their tombs nights and days shall record their praise while here this flower of their grafting blooms	img2poems
death more proud than the kings' heads bowed before him stronger than all things bows here his head: as if death were dead and kingship plucked from his crownless brows life hath here such a face of cheer as change appals not and time avows	img2poems
skies fulfilled with the sundown stilled and splendid spread as a flower that spreads pave with rarer device and fairer than heaven's the luminous oyster-beds grass-embanked and in square plots ranked inlaid with gems that the sundown sheds	img2poems
squares more bright and with lovelier light than heaven that kindled it shines with shine warm and soft as the dome aloft but heavenlier yet than the sun's own shrine heaven is high but the water-sky lit here seems deeper and more divine	img2poems
rosy grey or as fiery spray full-plumed or greener than emerald gleams plot by plot as the skies allot for each its glory divine as dreams lit with fire of appeased desire which sounds the secret of all that seems	img2poems
aught more fair than the radiant air and water here by the twilight wed here made one by the waning sun whose last love quickens to rosebright red half the crown of the soft high down that rears to northward its wood-girt head	img2poems
higher and higher to the north aspire the green smooth-swelling unending downs east and west on the brave earth's breast glow girdle-jewels of gleaming towns southward shining the lands declining subside in peace that the sea's light crowns	img2poems
westward wide in its fruitful pride the plain lies lordly with plenteous grace fair as dawn's when the fields and lawns desire her glitters the glad land's face eastward yet is the sole sign set of elder days and a lordlier race	img2poems
yet shall these when the winds and seas of equal days and coequal nights rage rejoice and uplift a voice whose sound is even as a sword that smites felt and heard as a doomsman's word from seaward reaches to landward heights	img2poems
lift their heart up and take their part of triumph swollen and strong with rage rage elate with desire and great with pride that tempest and storm assuage so their chime in the ear of time has rung from age to rekindled age	img2poems
fame wherever her flag flew never forbore to fly with an equal wing france and spain with their warrior train bowed down before her as thrall to king india knelt at her feet and felt her sway more fruitful of life than spring	img2poems
darkness round them as iron bound fell off from races of elder name slain at sight of her eyes whose light bids freedom lighten and burn as flame night endures not the touch that cures of kingship tyrants and slaves of shame	img2poems
yet the might of her wings in flight whence glory lightens and music rings loud and bright as the dawn's shall smite and still the discord of evil things yet not slain by her radiant reign but darkened now by her sail-stretched wings	img2poems
music made of change and conquest glory born of evil slain stilled the discord slew the darkness bade the lights of tempest wane where the deathless dawn of england rose in sign that right should reign	img2poems
mercy where the tiger wallowed mad and blind with blood and lust justice where the jackal yelped and fed and slaves allowed it just rose as england's light on asia rose and smote them down to dust	img2poems
justice bright as mercy mercy girt by justice with her sword smote and saved and raised and ruined till the tyrant-ridden horde saw the lightning fade from heaven and knew the sun for god and lord	img2poems
where the footfall sounds of england where the smile of england shines rings the tread and laughs the face of freedom fair as hope divines days to be more brave than ours and lit by lordlier stars for signs	img2poems
all our past acclaims our future: shakespeare's voice and nelson's hand milton's faith and wordsworth's trust in this our chosen and chainless land bear us witness: come the world against her england yet shall stand	img2poems
earth and sea bear england witness if he lied who said it he whom the winds that ward her waves that clasp and herb and flower and tree fed with english dews and sunbeams hail as more than man may be	img2poems
no man ever spake as he that bade our england be but true keep but faith with england fast and firm and none should bid her rue none may speak as he: but all may know the sign that shakespeare knew	img2poems
and ever as time's flow brightened a river more dark than the storm-clothed sea and age upon age rose fairer and larger in promise of hope set free with england eton her child kept pace as a fostress of men to be	img2poems
shelley lyric lord of england's lordliest singers here first heard ring from lips of poets crowned and dead the promethean word whence his soul took fire and power to outsoar the sunward-soaring bird	img2poems
still the reaches of the river still the light on field and hill still the memories held aloft as lamps for hope's young fire to fill shine and while the light of england lives shall shine for england still	img2poems
when four hundred more and fifty years have risen and shone and set bright with names that men remember loud with names that men forget haply here shall eton's record be what england finds it yet	img2poems
two years more than the full fourscore lay hallowing hands on a sacred head scarce one score of the perfect four uncrowned of fame as they smiled and fled still and soft and alive aloft their sunlight stays though the suns be dead	img2poems
soon ere time in the rounding rhyme of choral seasons had hailed us men we too heard and acclaimed the word whose breath was life upon england then life more bright than the breathless light of soundless noon in a songless glen	img2poems
ah the joy of the heartstruck boy whose ear was opened of love to hear ah the bliss of the burning kiss of song and spirit the mounting cheer lit with fire of divine desire and love that knew not if love were fear	img2poems
fear and love as of heaven above and earth enkindled of heaven were one one white flame that around his name grew keen and strong as the worldwide sun awe made bright with implied delight as weft with weft of the rainbow spun	img2poems
we that knew when the sun's shaft flew beheld and worshipped adored and heard light rang round it of shining sound whence all men's hearts were subdued and stirred joy love sorrow the day the morrow took life upon them in one man's word	img2poems
not for him can the years wax dim nor downward swerve on a darkening way upward wind they and leave behind such light as lightens the front of may fair as youth and sublime as truth we find the fame that we hail to-day	img2poems
far above us and all our love beyond all reach of its voiceless praise shines for ever the name that never shall feel the shade of the changeful days fall and chill the delight that still sees winter's light on it shine like may's	img2poems
england glows as a sunlit rose from mead to mountain from sea to sea bright with love and with pride above all taint of sorrow that needs must be needs must live for an hour and give its rainbow's glory to lawn and lea	img2poems
not through tears shall the new-born years behold him crowned with applause of men pass at last from a lustrous past to life that lightens beyond their ken glad and dead and from earthward led to sunward guided of imogen	img2poems
frail but fame's breath quickens kindles keeps in ward life so sweet as this that dies and casts off death	img2poems
dont on entend parfois dans notre nuit profonde s'il vous aima s'il vous pleura lui dont la vie recevez	img2poems
love should he wake bears now no cross for him dead hope whose living eyes like his were dim has brought forth better comfort strength more strong	img2poems
o loud and loud was the live man's cry would god the dead and the slain were i and the wind wears owre the heather	img2poems
o sair was the wrang and sair the fray but liefer had love be slain than slay and the wind wears owre the heather	img2poems
o sweet is the life that sleeps at hame but i maun wake on a far sea's faem and the wind wears owre the heather	img2poems
and women are fairest of a' things fair but never shall i kiss woman mair and the wind wears owre the heather	img2poems

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