The Grave By The Lake (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Where the Great Lake's sunny smilesDimple round its hundred isles,And the mountain's granite ledgeCleaves the water like a wedge,Ringed about ...
Where the Great Lake's sunny smilesDimple round its hundred isles,And the mountain's granite ledgeCleaves the water like a wedge,Ringed about ...
ICOOK was a captain of the AdmiraltyWhen sea-captains had the evil eye,Or should have, what with beating krakens offAnd casting ...
Say prickly pears had roots which found out water,had branches bursting out in sulphur flame.Wanderers traipsing from a cracked sierramunched ...
Sea mist, a skyful of breakers landward.Colonists deliberate a contended shore.Petrel beat between headlands where no moreNamed dangers stand on ...
Ire per Ignes,Et gladios ausim. Neque ad hoc tamen ignibus ullis,Aut gladiis opus est; opus est mihi Crine. —Ovid. Met. ...
Gay citizen, myself, and thoughtful friend,Your ghosts are Plato's Christians in the cave.Unfix your necks, turn to the door; the ...
'The chest is empty' say the sad.Well, yes, we've given all we had.But British breed, and brawn, and brainCan fill ...
234You're right-"the way is narrow"-And "difficult the Gate"-And "few there be"-Correct again-That "enter in-thereat"-'Tis Costly-So are purples!'Tis just the price ...
You're right -- "the way is narrow" -- And "difficult the Gate" -- And "few there be" -- Correct again ...
What we see we know somewhat Be it but a little -- What we don't surmise we do Though it ...
UPON that night, when fairies light On Cassilis Downans 2 dance, Or owre the lays, in splendid blaze, On sprightly ...
In the long run fame finds the deserving man. The lucky wight may prosper for a day, But in good ...
Soldiers are citizens of death's gray land, Drawing no dividend from time's to-morrows. In the great hour of destiny they ...
Soldiers are citizens of death's gray land, Drawing no dividend from time's to-morrows. In the great hour of destiny they ...
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