Tender to tearfulness–childlike, and manly, and motherly;
Here beats true English blood richest joyance on sweet English
ground.
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O nightingale! how hast thou learnt
While under thy bower the fern hangs burntAnd no cloud hovers above!Rich July has many a skyWith splendour dim, that thou mightst hymn,And make rejoice with thy wondrous voice,And the thrill of thy wild pervading tone!But instead of to woo, thou hast learnt to coo:Thy song is mute at the mellowing fruit,And the dirge of…
We who have seen Italia in the throes,
Like a ripe field of wheat where once drove ploughAll bounteous as she is fair, we think of thoseWho blew the breath of life into her frame:Cavour, Mazzini, Garibaldi: Three:Her Brain, her Soul, her Sword; and set her freeFrom ruinous discords, with one lustrous aim.That aim, albeit they were of minds diverse,Conjoined them, not to…
The hundred years have passed, and he
As with a hand laid over sea;To thunder through the foeman’s earsDefeat before his blast of fire;Lives in the immortalityThat poets dream and noblest souls desire.Never did nation’s need evokeHero like him for aid, the whileA Continent was cannon-smokeOr peace in slavery: this one IsleReflecting Nature: this one manHer sea-hound and her mortal stroke,With war-worn…
Fair and false! No dawn will greet
The little flower beneath thy feetIs alien to thy smile so cold;The merry bird flown up to meetYoung morning from his nest i’ the wheatScatters his joy to wood and wold,But scorns the arrogance of gold.False and fair! I scarce know why,But standing in the lonely air,And underneath the blessed sky,I plead for thee in…
A brook glancing under green leaves, self-delighting, exulting,
Renewed thro’ all changes of Heaven, unceasing in sunlight,Unceasing in moonlight, but hushed in the beams of the holier orb.
Yonder’s the man with his life in his hand,
Or to the slaughter, or to the maiming,Getting the dole of a dog for pay.Laurels he clasps in the words ‘duty done,’England his heart under every sun:-Exquisite humour! that gives him a namingBase to the ear as an ass’s bray.