Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols

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Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols Long Poems

  • 1.
    How beautiful it is to wake at night,
    When over all there reigns the ultimate spell
    Of complete silence, darkness absolute,
    To feel the world, tilted on axle-tree,
    ...
  • 2.
    As I walk the misty hill
    All is languid, fogged, and still;
    Not a note of any bird
    Nor any motion's hint is heard,
    ...
  • 3.
    He lay, and those who watched him were amazed
    To see unheralded beneath the lids
    Twin tears, new-gathered at the price of pain,
    Start and at once run crookedly athwart
    ...
  • 4.
    The beating of the guns grows louder.
    'Not long, boys, now'.
    My heart burns whiter, fearfuller, prouder.
    Hurricanes grow
    ...
  • 5.
    Put by the sun my joyful soul,
    We are for darkness that is whole;

    Put by the wine, now for long years
    ...
Total 5 Long Poems by Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols

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In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: Part 073
 by Alfred Lord Tennyson

So many worlds, so much to do,
So little done, such things to be,
How know I what had need of thee,
For thou wert strong as thou wert true?

The fame is quench'd that I foresaw,
The head hath miss'd an earthly wreath:
I curse not nature, no, nor death;
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