Signal Service (Franklin Pierce Adams Poems)
Time-table! Terrible and hard To figure! At some station lonelyWe see this sign upon the card:[Footnote Asterisk: Train 20: Stops ...
Time-table! Terrible and hard To figure! At some station lonelyWe see this sign upon the card:[Footnote Asterisk: Train 20: Stops ...
Life was trembling, faintly trembling On the bondman's latest breath, And he felt the chilling pressure Of the cold, hard ...
Under the pines sat a young man and maiden, "Love," said he; "life is sweet, think'st thou not so?" ...
My baby slept--how calm his rest, As o'er his handsome face a smile Like that of angel flitted, whileHe lay ...
Methought that in a solemn church I stood.Its marble acres, worn with knees and feet,Lay spread from door to door, ...
We have met, you and I, long ago, Yesterday when I saw you I knew, For the sight of the ...
Part First Frau Concert-Meister Altgelt shut the door. A storm was rising, heavy gusts of wind Swirled through the trees, ...
Never stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in the desert, On the sick or wounded bison, But another vulture, ...
The bird, black, glinting light flitted across my view snow-covered field swooping down toward the ground up into the sumac ...
Than Heaven more remote, For Heaven is the root, But these the flitted seed. More flown indeed Than ones that ...
How the old Mountains drip with Sunset How the Hemlocks burn -- How the Dun Brake is draped in Cinder ...
Praise it -- 'tis dead -- It cannot glow -- Warm this inclement Ear With the encomium it earned Since ...
Like a lone Arab, old and blind, Some caravan had left behind, Who sits beside a ruin'd well, Where the ...
I threw my arms about those shoulders, glancing at what emerged behind that back, and saw a chair pushed slightly ...
SPIRIT whose work is done! spirit of dreadful hours! Ere, departing, fade from my eyes your forests of bayonets; Spirit ...
Long lines of cliff breaking have left a chasm; And in the chasm are foam and yellow sands; Beyond, red ...
Now wouldn't you expect to find a man an awful crank That's staked out nigh three hundred claims, and every ...
Gold! We leapt from our benches. Gold! We sprang from our stools. Gold! We wheeled in the furrow, fired with ...
He came from "further out", That land of fear and drought And dust and gravel. He got a touch of ...
Has sorrow thy young days shaded, As clouds o'er the morning fleet? Too fast have those young days faded That, ...
Oh, could we do with this world of ours As thou dost with thy garden bowers, Reject the weeds and ...
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