BESSIE RAYNER PARKES
[aka Bessie Rayner Parkes Belloc]
BALLADS AND SONGS
************
About the print version:
BALLADS AND SONGS.
BY
BESSIE RAYNER PARKES.
LONDON:
BELL AND DALDY, 186, FLEET STREET.
1863.
*************
DEDICATION.
THOSE whom these Poems may concern
Will each their own true portion know;
No cause that other eyes should learn
The reason why I penned them so.
But if--I think there is--there be
One thread of thought that runs throughout,
One heart remembered tenderly,
One echo caught from strains devout;--
If through the busy Week of Years,
To which these scattered thoughts belong,
One constant image still appears,
Reflected in my casual song;--
Dear critic, for whose eyes I wrote the greater part,
Take to thyself the book I give, with all my heart.
CONTENTS.
THE Palace and the Colliery 1
The Fate of Sir John Franklin 5
The Soldier's Return
The City of Refuge
The Black Death
The Ballad of the King's Daughter
Robin Hood
New Year's Wishes
Up the River
Farmhouse Gardens
Carisbrooke Chimes
St. Laurence, Undercliff
The Wind amid the Trees
A Midsummer Night's Dream
At First
A Dropped Trinket
In an Album
The Old Chateau
Robert Burns
Peace
Prayer
Magic Rings
The Mersey and the Irwell
The World of Art
Voluntaries
The Cloud-Face
The First Primrose
Autumn Violets
The Little Bird
Symbols
Fate
Unspoken
To-morrow
King Arthur
Firelight
Absence
The Dead Love
Two Artists
The Cathedral
On a Group of Justice and Charity
"What Distance parteth Thee and Me?"
For Adelaide
ITALY.
Rome
St. John Lateran
The Lateran Cloisters
The Coelian Hill
The Appian Way
The Desolation of Veii
Gibson's Studio
Minerva Medica
Two Graves
ALGIERS.
Too Late
Under the Olives
THE PALACE AND THE COLLIERY.
WHEN within that silken-curtained room,
The dear Husband of ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Go to begin of the document
Go to previous page
Go to next page
Go to the end of document
