Category: Poetry
ELIZ. The minster-clock tolls midnight; I have watched Night after night, and heard the same sad sound Knolling; the same sad sound, night after night; As if, amid the world's deep silence, Time, Pausing a moment in his onward flight, From yonder solitary, moonlit pile, More a...
ELIZ. Now, my Lord Cardinal, what is the will Of our great lords with me? Your Grace well knows I am a helpless woman, have no power; My only wish, for what of life remains, Pra...
1. Chapter 1ELIZ. The minster-clock tolls midnight; I have watched Night after night, and heard the same sad sound Knolling; the same sad sound, night after night; As if, amid the world's d...
2. Chapter 2RICH. O my dear mother! why do we sit here, Amid these dusky walls and arches dim, When it is summer in the fields without, And sunshine? Say, is not my brother king, Why will h...