Richard Chenevix Trench Poems

• 1. Sonnet 03
  Lord, what a change within us one short hour
  Spent in Thy presence will prevail to make --
  What heavy burdens from our bosoms take,
  What parchèd grounds refresh, as with a shower!
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• 2. The Onward Course
  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?
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• 3. In A Pass Of Bavaria
  A sound of many waters!--now I know
  To what was likened the large utterance sent
  By Him who mid the golden lampads went:
  Innumerable streams, above, below,
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• 4. After The Battle
  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??
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• 5. Sonnet 05
  When hearts are full of yearning tenderness,
  For the loved absent, whom we can not reach --
  By deed or token, gesture or kind speech,
  The spirit's true affection to express;
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• 6. Sonnet 04
  A garden so well watered before morn
  Is hotly up, that not the swart sun's blaze
  Down beating with unmitigated rays,
  Nor arid winds from scorching places borne,
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• 7. Sonnet 02
  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--
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• 8. Sonnet 01
  ALL beautiful things bring sadness, nor alone
  Music, whereof that wisest poet spake;
  Because in us keen longings they awake
  After the good for which we pine and groan,
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• 9. Harmosan
  Now the third and fatal conflict for the Persian throne was done,
  And the Moslem's fiery valor had the crowning victory won.
  
  Harmosan, the last and boldest the invader to defy,
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