Ernest Jones

I lived from 1819-1869. I was from England, and am in the English category.

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• New Year's Eve

  DARKNESS on the endless sea;
              A wild, wild wailing cry;

  56 lines, 3 comments
• Moonrise

  WHAT stands upon the Highland?
      What walks across the rise,

  48 lines
• The Silent Cell

        They told me 'twas a fearful thing
          to pine in prison lone:

  43 lines
• The Sea Shell On The Desert

  Mournful murmurer—whence thy music?
  Singing chimes of distant seas!

  33 lines, 1 comment
• Percy Vere, The Peer's Story - Part I - My Home

  MY father, he was proud and poor,
  With much to boast and much endure;

  1078 lines
• Love And Song

  The nightingale rests on a waving bough,
      And sings to a pure white rose;

  27 lines
• Hymn For Lammas Day

  SHARPEN the sickle!  The fields are white,
      'Tis the time of the harvest at last;

  25 lines
• The Life Of A Flower

  AMID the bright'ning glories of the earth,
  I watched a humble floweret from its birth;

  155 lines
• The Poet's Death

  A BRAVE old warrior of poesy,
      Grown grey-haired in the service of his lyre;

  23 lines
• Percy Vere, The Peer's Story - Introduction

  TO MY READERS,—
  MY Life has been a wild, strange life,

  197 lines

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