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| Searching... Author: white, henry kirke Matches Found: 15 White, Henry Kirke Poet's Biography 15 poems available by this author A SUMMER EVENING, SELECTION Poem Text First Line: Down the deep, the miry lane Last Line: And join the general troop of sleep. Subject(s): Country Life BRITANNIA REJECTA Poem Text First Line: Where now is britain? - where her laurelled names Last Line: The yell of deprecation. Subject(s): Great Britain CANZONET Poem Text First Line: Maiden! Wrap thy mantle round thee Last Line: Where thou wilt sleep most peacefully. FRAGMENT Poem Text First Line: Hushed is the lyre -- the hand that swept Last Line: Its forest melodies hath lost its skill. FRAGMENT OF AN ODE TO THE MOON Poem Text First Line: Mild orb, who floatest through the realm of night Last Line: Shall woo the god of soft repose -- Subject(s): Moon I AM PLEASED, AND YET I'M SAD' First Line: When twilight steals along the ground RETIREMENT Poem Text First Line: Give me a cottage on some cambrian wild Last Line: Shall make sweet music o'er my lonely grave. Subject(s): Retirement THE EARLY PRIMROSE Poem Text First Line: Mild offspring of a dark and sullen sire! Last Line: Serene the ills of life. Variant Title(s): To An Early Primrose Subject(s): Flowers; Primroses THE EVENING STROLL Poem Text First Line: Quick o'er the wintry waste dart fiery shafts Last Line: Which gnaws his heart and bids him hope no more. Subject(s): Cold; Death; Evening; Poetry & Poets; Winter; Dead, The; Sunset; Twilight THE LULLABY OF A FEMALE CONVICT TO HER CHILD...TO EXECUTION Poem Text First Line: Sleep, baby mine, enkerchieft on my bosom Last Line: For never more thou'lt press a mother's breast. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty THE SAVOYARD'S RETURN Poem Text First Line: Oh! Yonder is the well-known spot Last Line: To steal my heart from yonder vale. Subject(s): Homecoming THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM Poem Text First Line: When, marshaled on the nightly plain Last Line: The star! -- the star of bethlehem! Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE WINTER TRAVELER Poem Text First Line: God help thee, traveler, on thy journey far Last Line: His lonely bark through the tempestuous tide. Subject(s): Travel; Winter; Journeys; Trips TO CONSUMPTION Poem Text First Line: Gently, most gently, on thy victim's head Last Line: Compose my decent head, and breathe my last. Subject(s): Tuberculosis; Consumption (Pathology) TO MY MOTHER Poem Text First Line: And canst thou, mother, for a moment think Last Line: And smooth the pillow of thy sinking age. Variant Title(s): Sonnet To My Mother Subject(s): Mothers |
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