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Impromptu lines on capt. George Christopher Azakor Nwakwesi	To him I built this cairn of words After the mummurs of mortar music Mobbled him with a queer...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
A Farewell to Abbotsford Felicia Dorothea Hemans	Bids rock and cairn reply, Wakening the spirits of the North, Like a chieftan's gathering cry; While its...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Girl's Song Katharine Tynan	I heap the stones to make his cairn Where many sleep as sound as...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Parodist's Apology James Kenneth Stephen	They have piled you a cairn that would fain have stoned you: You have spoken your message and earned your...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Aghadoe John Todhunter	O, to creep into that cairn in Aghadoe,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Art The Lonely Anna Johnston MacManus	cairn is over Conn–his hundred battles done, And in his sleeping Crionna lies, hidden from the sun;...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Baile And Aillinn William Butler Yeats	And now that Honey-Mouth is laid Under a cairn of sleepy stone Before his eyes, he has tears for none, Although he is carrying stone, but two...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Devil's Edge Wilfrid Wilson Gibson	As I stood on the topmost stone That crowns the cairn on Hawkshaw Head, And caught a gleam of far-off sea; And heard the wind sing in the bent...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Fairies Francis Ledwidge	To the heaped up cairn of Maeve, And there we'll dance a fairy...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Find me in Frisia Ben Heart	But forgive me if I stay, To create a cairn, From stones that don't stack, I go as I learn, To build my own little Babel, With...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Gertrude of Wyoming Thomas Campbell	Thy lone sepulchral cairn upon the moor, And distant isles that hear the loud Corbrechtan...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Glenara Thomas Campbell	'Now here let us place the gray stone of her cairn; - Why speak ye no...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Impromptu lines on capt george Christopher Azakor Nwakwesi	To him I built this cairn of words After the murmurs of mortar music Mobbed him with a queer...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Inscriptions Written with a Slate Pencil upon a Stone William Wordsworth	Nor, as perchance thou rashly deem'st, the Cairn Of some old British Chief: 'tis nothing more Than the rude embryo of a little Dome ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
My Love, Oh, She Is My Love Douglas Hyde	Nor stone upon my cairn would...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Narrative And Dramatic The Wanderings Of Oisin William Butler Yeats	Came to the cairn-heaped grassy hill Where passionate Maeve is stony-still; And found On the dove-grey edge of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Observation Point Stephen Colley	Tall as I -- some giant’s cairn, I’d guess, perhaps to mark the end Of someone's long, long climb -- stands mute But glad, to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ode To Repentance Eben Cornelius Roelofse	Let this cairn signify my growing...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
On Ettrick Forest's Mountains Dun {Life In The Forest} Sir Walter Scott	Far through the noonday solitude; By many a cairn and trenched mound, Where chiefs of yore sleep lone and sound, And springs, where...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ossian’s Grave Robinson Jeffers	Crushed under his cairn; And Hugh McQuillan under his cairn By his lost field in the bog on Aura; And I a foreigner,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Shane O’Neill’s Cairn Robinson Jeffers	The heavy black stones of the cairn of the lord of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Shooting Season Robinson Jeffers	Circle of the sky; the cairn on the slope names an old battle and beyond are Broad gray rocks the grave-marks of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Special Music Video…glorious unfolding (with steve curtis chapman) Wayne Blair	Inside fittings of a bench A telephone booth A cairn of Scottish stones,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 1. The Musician's Tale; The Saga of King Olaf VIII. -- Gudrun Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	On the cairn are fixed her eyes Where her murdered father lies, And a voice remote and drear She seems to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Tam O' Shanter Robert Burns	And thro' the whins, and by the cairn, Where hunters fand the murder'd bairn; And near the thorn, aboon the well, Where...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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