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...
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...
The Stolen Name by Joseph Charles MacKenzie https://mackenzielyricpoetry.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/The-Stolen-Name-Final.wav The Stolen Name Long ages past, we dared not voice Love’s name, But kept with care commandments we were given, Lest we should take in vain...
Ode for the Tenth Anniversary of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge Sing out, my harp, this gladsome day, Sweet harmonies thy cords obey, Add music’s mirth to this high feast, As joy, from earthly bonds released, Strews petals on the royal path, Of every colour April...
For the Queen on Her 95th Birthday How may our dismal century discern The bygone greatness that you represent? Elizabeth! Yet, did we ever earn Thy myriad gifts, or ponder what they meant? For even now thou pourest fourth thy life Into the weaving of the...
The Higher Charms It was a dream, or so he thought, The subtle fire behind her look… How rare the lass that ever caught The sailor’s heart upon a hook! And rarer still the lass who both The inner and the outer eye Could please so keenly by her troth, And make him...
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