Poems by Richard Chenevix Trench

I cannot veil mine eyelids from the light;
I cannot turn away
From this insulting and importun...

All beautiful things bring sadness, nor alone
Sweet music, as our wisest Poet spake,
Because...

The strong in spiritual action need not look
Upon the new-found year as on a scroll,
The which...

Seemeth not Love at times so occupied
For thee, as though it cared for none beside? To ...

If we with earnest effort could succeed
To make our life one long connected prayer,
As lives o...

Lord, what a change within us one short hour
Spent in thy presence will prevail to make,
What...

To the sound of evening bells
All that lives to rest repairs,
Birds unto their leafy dells,
...

Peace, Freedom, Happiness, have loved to wait
On the fair islands, fenced by circling seas; ...

Thou inevitable day,
When a voice to me shall say--
'Thou must rise and come away; Al...

FROM CALDERON TREE, which Heaven has willed to dower
With that true fruit whence we live,
As...

He might have reared a palace at a word,
Who sometimes had not where to lay his head:
Time wa...

The sea is like a mirror far and near,
And ours a prosperous voyage, safe from harms;
Yet ma...

I could loose my boat
And could bid it float
Where the idlest wind should pilot,
So its glad ...