Lines On The Portrait Of A Celebrated Publisher (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
A MOONY breadth of virgin face,By thought unviolated;A patient mouth, to take from scornThe hook with bank-notes baited!Its self-complacent sleekness ...
A MOONY breadth of virgin face,By thought unviolated;A patient mouth, to take from scornThe hook with bank-notes baited!Its self-complacent sleekness ...
To a Young Friend who had gone over to Ireland in the interests of his Political Party, at the Parliamentary ...
My coachman, in the moonlight there,Looks through the sidelight of the door;I hear him with his brethren swear,As I could ...
Never sleeping, still awake,Pleasing most when most I speak;The delight of old and young,Though I speak without a tongue.Nought but ...
I When you, that at this moment are to me Dearer than words on paper, shall ...
Of The Jackson Hall Debating Society, December 5, 1877My muse inspire me, while I tellThe weighty matters that befellOn Monday ...
Now the Wobble went out on the roaring tide,With a dry dog trotting along by its side;Went over the sea ...
"WHEN Nature had made all her birds, With no more cares to think on, She gave a rippling laugh, ...
I dance upon the wash-house roof, And fill my hair with straws,And from my fellows keep aloof. I'll tell you ...
Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare. Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace, And lay them prone ...
Ah, well! but the case seems hopeless, and the pen might write in vain; The people gabble of old things ...
Is there anything which isn't made in China? The answer is. of course there is, the question was rhetorical, a ...
A green and silent spot, amid the hills, A small and silent dell ! O'er stiller place No singing sky-lark ...
NOW Robin 1 lies in his last lair, He'll gabble rhyme, nor sing nae mair; Cauld poverty, wi' hungry stare, ...
The Sun, who never stops to dine, Two hours had pass'd the mid-way line, And driving at his usual rate, ...
In elder days, in Saturn's prime, Ere baldness seized the head of Time, While truant Jove, in infant pride, Play'd ...
MANY things I might have said today. And I kept my mouth shut. So many times I was asked To ...
"The past is a bucket of ashes." 1 THE WOMAN named To-morrow sits with a hairpin in her teeth and ...
Back of my back, they talk of me, Gabble and honk and hiss; Let them batten, and let them be- ...
Oh, "rorty" was a mid-Victorian word Which meant "fine, splendid, jolly," And often to me it has reoccurred In moments ...
As one who in his journey bates at noon, Though bent on speed; so here the Arch-Angel paused Betwixt the ...
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