William Henry Giles Kingston Soul 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. King Christian. A National Song Of Denmark. From The Danish Of Johannes Evald
  King Christian stood by the lofty mast
  In mist and smoke;
  His sword was hammering so fast,
  Through Gothic helm and brain it passed;
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• 3. 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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• 4. 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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• 5. 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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• 6. 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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• 7. A Psalm Of Life. What The Heart Of The Young Man Said To The Psalmist
  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.
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• 8. The Beleaguered City
  I have read, in some old marvellous tale,
  Some legend strange and vague,
  That a midnight host of spectres pale
  Beleaguered the walls of Prague.
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