_Characters._--Valdivia, commander of the Spanish armies--Lautaro, his
page, a native of Chili--Anselmo, the missionary--Indiana, his adopted
daughter, wife of Lautaro--Zarinel, the wandering minstrel.

The English Revolution Of 1848

© Dante Gabriel Rossetti

HO ye that nothing have to lose! ho rouse ye, one and all!

Come from the sinks of the New Cut, the purlieus of Vauxhall!

The Tournament. An Interlude

© Thomas Chatterton

BERGHAMME.
Nowe, nowe, Syrr Knyghte, attoure thie beeveredd eyne,
I have borne downe, and efte doe gauntlette thee.
Swythenne begynne, and wrynn thie shappe orr myne;
Gyff thou dyscomfytte, ytt wylle dobblie bee.

Of One Who Died In Spring

© George MacDonald

Loosener of springs, he died by thee!
Softness, not hardness, sent him home;
He loved thee-and thou mad'st him free
Of all the place thou comest from!

ElegyXI: The Bracelet

© John Donne

NOT that in colour it was like thy hair,

For armlets of that thou mayst let me wear ;

Barren Woman

© Sylvia Plath

Empty, I echo to the least footfall,
Museum without statues, grand with pillars, porticoes, rotundas.
In my courtyard a fountain leaps and sinks back into itself,
Nun-hearted and blind to the world. Marble lilies
Exhale their pallor like scent.

Medway Song

© Edith Nesbit

(Air: Carnaval de Venise)

LET Housman sing of Severn shore,

T.a.h.

YES, he was that, or that, as you prefer,

Did so and so, though, faith, it was nt all;

The Princess And The Goblins

© Sylvia Plath

From fabrication springs the spiral stair
up which the wakeful princess climbs to find
the source of blanching light that conjured her

To The Lord Falkland

FOR HIS SAFE RETURN FROM THE NORTHERN

EXPEDITION AGAINST THE SCOTS.

After Ascension

Those twelve years from Ascension
Until the day of meeting broke,
She was not so much all alone
As it might seem to common folk,
Because no day passed without bliss:
He gives Himself back to her kiss.