Adhortatio Ad Carolum Tertium Regem by Joseph Charles MacKenzie | The Royal Poems https://mackenzielyricpoetry.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/ADHORTATIO-2.wav John Dryden to his Charles and I to mine, Since modern Laureates are anodyne. Not one, since Betjeman had...
Elegy by Joseph Charles MacKenzie | The Royal Poems https://mackenzielyricpoetry.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Elegy-With-Music.wav THE Dee is running rough and wild, Like the years, the kind-hearted years, On the ringing rocks, the noon-tide past, As the late summer...
Sonnet for Shevchenko YOU called the yearning soul of man “Ukraine” And raised your heart to hunger’s unwashed sky; You made your sacred hymn the Cossack’s cry, And tuned your kobza to your country’s pain. You saw your father scourged by serfdom’s...
Decades for the Queen I Vow of Dedication, 1947 She saw through darkness the white flame of glory And followed, steadfast, blessing the sacred hour; Though skies rained death, she stood erect, a tower Of English stones cut from an ancient quarry. Tender of years, of...
Christmas Eve, Las Vegas, New Mexico 1939 I see your tiny, mittened hand held tight Within your father’s that wears not a glove; The luminarias burn glad and bright, Their crackling flames below, the stars above. The spires of “Montezuma’s...
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