Thomas Edward Brown Long Poems
- 1. I Wonder
I wonder if in that far isle,
Some child is growing now, like me
When I was child : care-pricked, yet healed the while
With balm of rock and sea.
... - 2. Old John
Old John, if I could sit with you a day
At Abram's feet upon the asphodel,
There, while the grand old patriarch dreamed away,
To you my life's whole progress I would tell;
... - 3. Specula
When He appoints to meet thee, go thou forthâ??
It matters not
If south or north,
Bleak waste or sunny plot.
... - 4. Pain
The Man that hath great griefs I pity not;
â??Tis something to be great
In any wise, and hint the larger state,
Though but in shadow of a shade, God wot!
... - 5. Land, Ho!
I know â??tis but a loom of land,
Yet is it land, and so I will rejoice,
I know I cannot hear His voice
Upon the shore, nor see Him stand;
... - 6. Lynton Verses
Sweet breeze that sett'st the summer birds a swaying,
Dear lambs amid the primrose meadows playing
Let me not think!
O floods, upon whose brink
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