Poems by George Houghton

They fetched the fierce pretender
A captive to King Thorald's hall,
And king and all his court...

The wheat-stalks are heavy and white,
They slant beside the wall,
And lean against each other...

Idol I found thee, unfeeling, challenging man but to mock him,
Whispering to one that is weak...

I A haw, with branches of bloom;
And a bird on the topmost,
Sitting and swinging,
And mer...

"If one find a four-leaf clover"
(She said, sitting on the grass),
"He can wish whate'er he l...

There have been nobler days, my friends,
And ruddier skies than ours,
When men wrought deeds...

Impression left after listening to story narrated by a French cavalry officer. Far off the eye c...

A beacon overlooked the shore;
Within a big bell hung;
And three stout men stood at the rope
...

I The Black Boars crouch, a huddling pile,
Without York-Harbor half a mile;
And there, at ...

I I'm sad, I'm sad, for the joy I had
Is wrecked like a craft in mid-sea;
It's strange, bu...

He failed. He reached to grasp Hesperides,
To track the footsteps of the sun, that flies
Towa...

I gave my little girl back to the daisies,
From them it was that she took her name;
I gave my...

By noonday, stranded skeletons they seem,
Of behemoths borne from some far, tropic stream,
...

A level sea,
A film of blue
Covering the coast-line;
A sail or two; A ship asleep
...

The palace with its splendid dome,
That nearest to the sky aspires,
Is first to challenge sto...