The Piper (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
I will not lift the door-latch, I will not step inFrom the dark fields and the starlight and the bent ...
I will not lift the door-latch, I will not step inFrom the dark fields and the starlight and the bent ...
TO MISS AUGUSTA COWELL. WHEN thy light fingers touch ...
Should you ask me, whence these stories? Whence these legends and traditions, With the odors of the forest With the ...
Welcome, my old friend, Welcome to a foreign fireside, While the sullen gales of autumn Shake the windows. The ungrateful ...
Come to me, O ye children! For I hear you at your play, And the questions that perplexed me Have ...
(For Shaemas O Sheel) One winter night a Devil came and sat upon my bed, His eyes were full of ...
I feel no small reluctance in venturing to give to the public a work of the character of that indicated ...
When down the stair at morning The sunbeams round her float, Sweet rivulets of laughter Are bubbling in her throat; ...
One of the ones that Midas touched Who failed to touch us all Was that confiding Prodigal The reeling Oriole ...
I had a guinea golden -- I lost it in the sand -- And tho' the sum was simple And ...
Each small gleam was a voice, A lantern voice -- In little songs of carmine, violet, green, gold. A chorus ...
What is song's eternity? Come and see. Can it noise and bustle be? Come and see. Praises sung or praises ...
If you had a friend strong, simple, true, Who knew your faults and who understood; Who believed in the very ...
Now Night came down, and rose full soon That patroness of rogues, the Moon; Beneath whose kind protecting ray, Wolves, ...
1 PROUD music of the storm! Blast that careers so free, whistling across the prairies! Strong hum of forest tree-tops! ...
On the seashore of endless worlds children meet. The infinite sky is motionless overhead and the restless water is boisterous. ...
On the seashore of endless worlds children meet. The infinite sky is motionless overhead and the restless water is boisterous. ...
So closed our tale, of which I give you all The random scheme as wildly as it rose: The words ...
Lately our poets loiter'd in green lanes, Content to catch the ballads of the plains; I fancied I had strength ...
MOVING-PICTURE ACTRESS (After seeing the reel called "Oil and Water.") Beauty has a throne-room In our humorous town, Spoiling its ...
Oft seems the Time a market-town Where many merchant-spirits meet Who up and down and up and down Cry out ...
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