William Henry Giles Kingston Long Poems

  • 1.
    The night is come, but not too soon;
    And sinking silently,
    All silently, the little moon
    Drops down behind the sky.
    ...
  • 2.
    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
    ...
  • 3.
    When winter winds are piercing chill
    And through the hawthorn blows the gale,
    With solemn feet I tread the hill,
    That overbrows the lonely vale.
    ...
  • 4.
    On sunny slope and beechen swell
    The shadowed light of evening fell:
    And, where the maple's leaf was brown,
    With soft and silent lapse came down
    ...
  • 5.
    Pleasant it was, when woods were green,
    And winds were soft and low,
    To lie amid some sylvan scene,
    Where, the long drooping boughs between,
    ...
  • 6.
    Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
    "Life is but an empty dream!"
    For the soul is dead that slumbers.
    And things are not what they seem.
    ...
Total 6 Long Poems by William Henry Giles Kingston

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