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Book: Ballads and Sonnets (1879)

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  • Blind Matthew
    Blind Matthew, coming down the village street
    With slow, sure footsteps, pauses for a while,
    48 lines, 1 comment
  • Ada
    Lying full-length upon the summer grass,
    And by the murmur of a summer stream,
    81 lines, 1 comment
  • Sonnets To A Picture: IV
    He kneels, his knee drawn down to kindred dust,
    For all is earth within him, from those eyes
    14 lines
  • The Engine
    Ay, give me the beat of his fire-fed breast,
    And the shake of his giant frame,
    114 lines, 1 comment
  • Sonnets To A Friend: VI
    And thou, in such calm moments, wilt again
    Stand in that holy silent light which swims
    14 lines
  • The Mother And The Angel
    'I want my child,' the mother said, as through
    The deep sweet air of purple-breathing morn
    32 lines, 1 comment
  • Sonnets To A Friend: II
    And with the murmur of the Rhine will come
    Those legends which have flung, as from a sky
    14 lines
  • The Spirit Of The Waters
    While the breezes come and creep--
    And what mortal would not sleep
    54 lines, 1 comment
  • Sonnets To A Picture: II
    The splendid demon with the lurid eyes,
    Wherein, as when a serpent bites its coil
    14 lines
  • Nottman
    That was Nottman waving at me,
    But the steam fell down, so you could not see;
    76 lines, 1 comment
  • Sonnets To A Picture: VI
    Thou gazest and the picture fades away
    Like visions after sleep. But unto thee
    14 lines
  • Summer Invocation
    Come forth, and bring with thee a mind
    That rises to the poet's mood;
    80 lines, 1 comment
  • Sonnets To A Friend: IV
    The sunshine over Brussels will be mine,
    But for a moment ere it pales its hue,
    14 lines
  • The Red Leaf
    Have you so forgot the time, dear love,
    When we sat by the stream in the wood
    48 lines, 1 comment
  • Sonnets To A Friend: VIII
    Or Guido, where beneath the crown of thorns
    Love haloes the divinest of all eyes,
    14 lines
  • He Came From A Land
    He came from a land whose shadows
    Were brighter than our day;
    44 lines
  • Sonnets To A Picture: III
    A Faust in colours with the good and ill
    For ever at their conflict, dumb of speech,
    14 lines
  • A Parting
    The sunlight fell through the shadowy trees
    In smiles all soft and sweet,
    32 lines
  • Sonnets To A Picture: V
    Above him, yet he sees him not, there bends
    Compassion and Divinity in one,
    14 lines
  • Where I Am Lying Now
    The first sweet wind of the summer
    Is breathing upon my cheek,
    36 lines
  • Sonnets To A Friend: I
    We part: great London with its mighty rush
    Of life will daily send its shocks through thine,
    14 lines
  • A Memory
    As soft as an autumn leaf will light
    When the winds are hush'd and still,
    40 lines
  • Sonnets To A Friend: III
    Through these the town of Rubens shall arise,
    Its stone arms clasping the cathedral, where
    14 lines
  • Agnes
    I open again the garden door,
    When the flowers live their little time,
    40 lines
  • Sonnets To A Friend: V
    And quiet Weimar, hush'd of look and staid,
    As if she knew the passing stranger came,
    14 lines
  • Annie
    O! just to see you again, Annie,
    To walk with your hand in mine;
    16 lines
  • Sonnets To A Friend: VII
    Half worship? Nay, full worship must be thine,
    For all the best of Raphael's soul is there,
    14 lines
  • Sonnets To A Picture: I
    He sleeps; the inner agony hath pass'd
    With the sure dawn that slowly climbs the east;
    14 lines
  • Sonnets To A Friend: IX
    I know thou wilt. And so to me the past
    Is richer from my pleasant days with thee,
    14 lines
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