William Henry Giles Kingston Soft 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. Hymn To The Night
  I heard the trailing garments of the Night
  Sweep through her marble halls!
  I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light
  From the celestial walls!
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• 3. 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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• 4. 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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• 5. Woods In Winter
  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.
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• 6. Burial Of The Minnisink
  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
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• 7. Sunrise On The Hills
  I stood upon the hills, when heaven's wide arch
  Was glorious with the sun's returning march,
  And woods were brightened, and soft gales
  Went forth to kiss the sun-clad vales.
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• 8. Voices Of The Night. Prelude
  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,
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