Walter Richard Cassels Poems

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11.
Under The Sea

Deep in the bosom of the ocean,
Where sunshine fades to twilight gloom,
The pure pearls lie, and the coral bloom
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12.
Vulcan

From the darksome earth-mine lifted,
From the clay and from the rock
Loosen'd out with many a shock;
Slowly from the clay-dross sifted
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13.
Wind

Oh! weird West Wind, that comest from the sea,
Sad with the murmur of the weary waves,
Wand'ring for ever through old ocean caves,
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14.
Wytham Woods

'Mid the waving Woods of Wytham,
Now so far, so far from me,
Where the grand old beeches be,
And the deer-herds feeding by them:
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15.
Years Ago

This day it was--Ah! years ago,
Long years ago, when first we met;
When first her voice thrill'd through my heart,
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16.
At Parting

Peace! Let me go, or ere it be too late;
Dip not your arrows in the honey-mead;
Paint not the wound through which my heart doth bleed;
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17.
Beatrice Di Tenda

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It was too sweet--such dreams do ever fade
When Sorrow shakes the sleeper from his rest--
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18.
The Morning Star

Night's heavy hand is lifted up at last,
And my freed heart beats evenly again,
Unpress'd by that dull heavy weight of pain
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19.
A Challenge

What art thou--friend or foe?
Stand! stand!
My heart is true as steel,
Steady still in woe and weal,
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20.
A Conceit

The Grey-beard Winter sat alone and still,
Locking his treasures in the flinty earth;
And like a miser comfortless and chill,
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