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  • Caged Skylark
    As a dare-gale skylark scanted in a dull cage
      Man’s mounting spirit in his bone-house, mean house,
    19 lines
  • To His Watch
    Mortal my mate, bearing my rock-a-heart
    Warm beat with cold beat company, shall I
    11 lines
  • To R.B.
    The fine delight that fathers thought; the strong
    Spur, live and lancing like the blowpipe flame,
    14 lines
  • The Shepherd’s Brow, Fronting Forked Lightning, Owns
    The shepherd's brow, fronting forked lightning, owns
    The horror and the havoc and the glory
    14 lines
  • Repeat That, Repeat
    Repeat that, repeat,
    Cuckoo, bird, and open ear wells, heart-springs, delightfully sweet,
    5 lines
  • St. Alphonsus Rodriguez
    Laybrother of the Society of Jesus
    18 lines
  • Penmaen Pool
    For the Visitors' Book at the Inn
    41 lines
  • The Furl of Fresh-Leaved Dogrose Down
    The furl of fresh-leaved dogrose down
    His cheeks the forth-and-flaunting sun
    22 lines
  • The Soldier
    Yes. Why do we áll, seeing of a soldier, bless him? bless
    Our redcoats, our tars? Both these being, the greater part,
    15 lines
  • Strike, Churl
    Strike, churl; hurl, cheerless wind, then; heltering hail
    May’s beauty massacre and wispèd wild clouds grow
    4 lines
  • The Sea Took Pity
    The sea took pity: it interposed with doom:
    ‘I have tall daughters dear that heed my hand:
    5 lines
  • What Being in Rank-Old Nature
    What being in rank-old nature should earlier have that breath been
    That hére pérsonal tells off these heart-song powerful peals?—
    8 lines
  • Ribblesdale
    Earth, sweet Earth, sweet landscape, with leavés throng
    And louchéd low grass, heaven that dost appeal
    14 lines
  • The Silver Jubilee
    To James First Bishop of Shrewsbury on the
    25th Year of his Episcopate July 28. 1876
    27 lines
  • To What Serves Mortal Beauty?
    To what serves mortal beauty '—dangerous; does set danc-
    ing blood—the O-seal-that-so ' feature, flung prouder form
    14 lines
  • St. Winefred's Well
    ACT I. SC. I
    Enter Teryth from riding, Winefred following.
    142 lines
  • The Times Are Nightfall
    The times are nightfall, look, their light grows less;
    The times are winter, watch, a world undone:
    12 lines
  • What Shall I Do For the Land that Bred Me
    What shall I do for the land that bred me,
    Her homes and fields that folded and fed me?—
    23 lines
  • The Handsome Heart
    at a Gracious Answer
    15 lines
  • To Seem the Stranger Lies My Lot
    To seem the stranger lies my lot, my life
    Among strangers. Father and mother dear,
    15 lines
  • Summa
    The best ideal is the true
    And other truth is none.
    4 lines
  • To Him Who Ever Thought with Love of Me
    To him who ever thought with love of me
    Or ever did for my sake some good deed
    6 lines
  • The Woodlark
    Teevo cheevo cheevio chee:
    O where, what can tháat be?
    52 lines
  • The Lantern Out Of Doors
    Sometimes a lantern moves along the night,
    That interests our eyes. And who goes there?
    14 lines
  • Thee, God, I Come from
    Thee, God, I come from, to thee go,
    All day long I like fountain flow
    30 lines
  • Peace
    When will you ever, Peace, wild wooddove, shy wings shut,
    Your round me roaming end, and under be my boughs?
    11 lines
  • The Blessed Virgin Compared To The Air We Breathe
    Wild air, world-mothering air,
    Nestling me everywhere,
    126 lines
  • The Bugler's First Communion
    A buglar boy from barrack (it is over the hill
    There)—boy bugler, born, he tells me, of Irish
    48 lines
  • To Seem The Stranger Lies My Lot, My Life
    To seem the stranger lies my lot, my life
    Among strangers. Father and mother dear,
    14 lines
  • Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord
    Justus quidem tu es, Domine, si disputem tecum; verumtamen justa loquar ad te: quare via impiorum prosperatur?
    Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I conten
    15 lines
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