"A fair girl tripping out to meet her love, Trimmed in her best, fresh as a clover bud. An old crone leaning at an emb…"

"Sigh, heart, and break not; rest, lark, and wake not! Day I hear coming to draw my Love away. As mere-waves whisper, …"

"Arcadian spaces of great grass arise; Crisp lambs are merry: hoary vales are laid, Studded with roe-deer and wild str…"

"Sweet are the ways of death to weary feet, Calm are the shades of men. The phantom fears no tyrant in his seat, The s…"

"I had a true-love, none so dear, And a friend both leal and tried. I had a cask of good old beer, And a gallant horse…"

"Thou felon anchorite of pain Who sittest in a world of slain."

"His mind was like a jewel with innumerable facets, all slightly blurred or misted; or perhaps it would be a juster il…"

"The characteristics of De Tabley’s poetry are pre-eminently magnificence of style, derived from close study of Milton…"

""Lest that by any means When I have preached to others I myself Should be a castaway." If some one now Would take tha…"

"The twentieth century had conclusively settled the question of how a society should be organised: liberal democracy, …"