Richard Chenevix Trench

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Richard Chenevix Trench Light Poems

  • 1.
    Our course is onward, onward into light:
    What though the darkness gathereth amain,
    Yet to return or tarry both are vain.
    How tarry, when around us is thick night?
    ...
  • 2.
    WE crownâ??d the hard-won heights at length,
    Baptizâ??d in flame and fire;
    We saw the foemanâ??s sullen strength,
    That grimly made retireâ??
    ...
  • 3.
    I stood beside a pool, from whence ascended,
    Mounting the cloudy platforms of the wind,
    A stately heron; its soaring I attended,
    Till it grew dim, and I with watching blind--
    ...
Total 3 Light Poems by Richard Chenevix Trench

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I'M Ceded-i'Ve Stopped Being Theirs
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I'm ceded-I've stopped being Theirs-
The name They dropped upon my face
With water, in the country church
Is finished using, now,
And They can put it with my Dolls,
My childhood, and the string of spools,
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