Sonnets - I - Christmas Day

"Devotion! When thy name is named,     What matchless visions rise!     The Hebrew, leaving Pharoahs house,     To Israels rescue flies;"

"And the birds of the air have nests.     Belated swallow, whither flying?     The day is dead, the light is dying,     The night draws near:"

"The white Julienne remains the flower of Marie Antoinette.     - ALPHONSE KARR     Again above thy fragile flowers     I bend, to bring the"

"The unexplored parts of Australia are sometimes spoken of by the bushmen of Western Queensland as the home of the pelican, a bird whose resting pl"

"Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met     Ere yet one footstep shows in all the sky,     And twilight in the east, a doubt as yet,     S"

"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"