William Henry Giles Kingston Earth Poems

• 1. Flowers
  Spake full well, in language quaint and olden,
  One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine,
  When he called the flowers, so blue and golden,
  Stars, that in earth's firmament do shine; -
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• 2. The Light Of Stars
  The night is come, but not too soon;
  And sinking silently,
  All silently, the little moon
  Drops down behind the sky.
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• 3. An April Day
  When the warm sun, that brings
  Seed-time and harvest, has returned again,
  'Tis sweet to visit the still wood, where springs
  The first flower of the plain.
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• 4. The Reaper And The Flowers
  There is a Reaper, whose name is Death,
  And, with his sickle keen,
  He reaps the bearded grain at a breath,
  And the flowers that grow between.
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• 5. Autumn
  With what a glory comes and goes the year!
  The buds of spring, those beautiful harbingers
  Of sunny skies and cloudless times, enjoy
  Life's newness, and earth's garnitude spread out
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• 6. The Terrestrial Paradise. From Dante, Purgatorio, Xxviii
  Longing already to search in and round
  The heavenly forest, dense and living green,
  Which to the eyes tempered the new-born day,
  
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• 7. The Spirit Of Poetry
  There is a quiet spirit in these woods,
  That dwells where'er the gentle south wind blows;
  Where, underneath the whitethorn, in the glade,
  The wild flowers bloom, or, kissing the soft air,
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• 8. Footsteps Of Angels
  When the hours of Day are numbered,
  And the voices of the Night
  Wake the better soul, that slumbered,
  To a holy, calm delight;
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• 9. Spring
  From the French of Charles D'Orleans, Fifteenth Century.
  
  Gentle Spring! - in sunshine clad,
  Well dost thou thy power display!
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