Category: Poetry
MANY of the verses in this collection have appeared in Magazines: ‘How they held the Bass’ was in ‘Blackwood’s Magazine’; the ‘Ballad of the Philanthropist’ in ‘Punch’; ‘Calais Sands’ in ‘The Magazine of Art’ (Messrs. Cassell and Co.); and others are recaptured from ‘Longman’s...
ON Calais Sands the grey began, Then rosy red above the grey, The morn with many a scarlet van Leap’d, and the world was glad with May! The little waves along the bay Broke whit...
1. Chapter 1MANY of the verses in this collection have appeared in Magazines: ‘How they held the Bass’ was in ‘Blackwood’s Magazine’; the ‘Ballad of the Philanthropist’ in ‘Punch’; ‘Calais...
3. Chapter 3When man and maid, all unafraid, ‘Sat out’ upon the stairs, No spectre dread, with feet of lead, Came past them unawares. I know not why, but alway I Have found that it is so, T...