Christmas treasures (Eugene Field Poem)
I count my treasures o'er with care.-- The little toy my darling knew, A little sock of faded hue, A ...
I count my treasures o'er with care.-- The little toy my darling knew, A little sock of faded hue, A ...
Go, Cupid, and my sweetheart tell I love her well. Yes, though she tramples on my heart And rends that ...
THE change of food enjoyment is to man; In this, t'include the woman is my plan. I cannot guess why ...
AS WILLIAM walking with his wife was seen, A man of rank admired her lovely mien. Who gave you such ...
I RECOLLECT, that lately much I blamed, The sort of lover, avaricious named; And if in opposites we reason see, ...
HE surely must be wrong who loving fears; And does not flee when beauty first appears. Ye FAIR, with charms ...
THE key, which opes the chest of hoarded gold. Unlocks the heart that favours would withhold. To this the god ...
WE'RE told, that once a cobbler, BLASE by name; A wife had got, whose charms so high in fame; But ...
A CERTAIN pious rector (John his name), But little preached, except when vintage came; And then no preparation he required ...
TO serve the shop as 'prentice was the lot; Of one who had the name of Nicaise got; A lad ...
IN Eastern climes, by means considered new; The Mount's old-man, with terrors would pursue; His large domains howe'er were not ...
IF these gay tales give pleasure to the FAIR, The honour's great conferred, I'm well aware; Yet, why suppose the ...
IN life oft ills from self-imprudence spring; As proof, Candaules' story we will bring; In folly's scenes the king was ...
A house that lacks, seemingly, mistress and master, With doors that none but the wind ever closes, Its floor all ...
Thousand minstrels woke within me, "Our music's in the hills; "- Gayest pictures rose to win me, Leopard-colored rills. Up!-If ...
I don't feel at home where I am, or where I spend time; only where, beyond counting, there's freedom and ...
Yes, I will spend the livelong day With Nature in this month of May; And sit beneath the trees, and ...
Upon the gallows hung a wretch, Too sullied for the hell To which the law entitled him. As nature's curtain ...
Quite empty, quite at rest, The Robin locks her Nest, and tries her Wings. She does not know a Route ...
Love is done when Love's begun, Sages say, But have Sages known? Truth adjourn your Boon Without Day. (Emily Dickinson)
Behold this little Bane -- The Boon of all alive -- As common as it is unknown The name of ...
Have you switched to Beta yet? It's an even bet that if you have you quite regret your impulse to ...
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
Mother of Light, and the Gods! Mother of Music, awake! Silence and speech are at odds; Heaven and Hell are ...
Mother of Light, and the Gods! Mother of Music, awake! Silence and speech are at odds; Heaven and Hell are ...
Scene--A spacious drawing-room, with music-room adjoining. Katharine. What are the words ? Eliza. Ask our friend, the Improvisatore ; here ...
PART I 'Tis the middle of night by the castle clock And the owls have awakened the crowing cock; Tu-whit!- ...
The ladye she stood at her lattice high, Wi' her doggie at her feet; Thorough the lattice she can spy ...
''Tis the voice of the Lobster: I heard him declare 'You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my ...
'Twas at that hour of beauty when the setting sun squandereth his cloudy bed with rosy hues, to flood his ...
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