Richard Chenevix Trench Light Poems
- 1. The Onward Course
Our course is onward, onward into light:
What though the darkness gathereth amain,
Yet to return or tarry both are vain.
How tarry, when around us is thick night?
... - 2. After The Battle
WE crownâ??d the hard-won heights at length,
Baptizâ??d in flame and fire;
We saw the foemanâ??s sullen strength,
That grimly made retireâ??
... - 3. Sonnet 02
I stood beside a pool, from whence ascended,
Mounting the cloudy platforms of the wind,
A stately heron; its soaring I attended,
Till it grew dim, and I with watching blind--
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