The Faithful Friend (Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton Poems)
O, FRIEND! whose heart the grave doth shroud from human joy or woe, Know'st thou who wanders by thy tomb, ...
O, FRIEND! whose heart the grave doth shroud from human joy or woe, Know'st thou who wanders by thy tomb, ...
I'm weary of this weather and I hanker for the waysWhich people read of in the psalms and preachers paraphrase--The ...
The Rev. John Donaldson, M.A., Kirkconnel. "Ave Atque Vale."A brooding quiet rests to-day On all the well-known hills around;Spring lingers ...
Dreamin'? I sez to Digger Smith. "Buck up, ole sport, an' smile.Ain't there enough uv joy to-dayTo drive the bogey ...
One-and-two-and-three-and-four --You're playing it by ear, boy! Eyes upon the score! Miss Trapp, the music teacher, very prim and staid, ...
(At a Dinner of the Omar Khayyam Club.) "Draw nigh the Board " one came to me and said ' ...
Not with a flash that rends the blue Shall fall the avenging sword.Gently as the evening dew Descends the mighty ...
I think of Mother when I seetall chestnut candles on a tree,my Mother always kept a light,for us when we ...
STRAIGHT thinking,Straight talking,Straight doing,And a firm belief in the might of right.Patience linked with patriotism,Justice added to kindliness,Uncompromising devotion to ...
Here in turn succeed and rule Carter, smith, and village fool, Then again the place is known As tavern, shop, ...
When love has changed to kindliness -- Oh, love, our hungry lips, that press So tight that Time's an old ...
When love has changed to kindliness -- Oh, love, our hungry lips, that press So tight that Time's an old ...
(From a sonnet-sequence) Somewhile before the dawn I rose, and stept Softly along the dim way to your room, And ...
I have been so great a lover: filled my days So proudly with the splendour of Love's praise, The pain, ...
we are always asked to understand the other person's viewpoint no matter how out-dated foolish or obnoxious. one is asked ...
Son put a poser up to me That made me scratch my head: "God made the whole wide world," quoth ...
It's not for laws I've broken That bitter tears I've wept, But solemn vows I've spoken And promises unkept; It's ...
Momus is the name men give your face, The brag of its tone, like a long low steamboat whistle Finding ...
(AMSTERDAM, 1645) And there you are again, now as you are. Observe yourself as you discern yourself In your discredited ...
As the night was beginning to close in one rough September day In the year of 1838, a steamer passed ...
"What I spent I had; what I saved, I lost; what I gave, I have." But yesterday the tourney, all ...
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