To A Lady Who Sent The Author Some Paper With A Reading Of Sillar’s Poems (Janet Little Poems)
DEAR madam, with joy I read over your letter;Your kindness still tends to confirm me your debtor;But can't think of ...
DEAR madam, with joy I read over your letter;Your kindness still tends to confirm me your debtor;But can't think of ...
I. Hotly burns the amaryllis With its stars of red; Whitely rise the stately lilies From the lily bed; Withered shrinks the wax May-apple 'Neath its ...
When June is here--what art have we to sing The whiteness of the lilies midst the green Of noon-tranced lawns? Or flash ...
Green moss will creepAlong the shady graves where we shall sleep.Each year will bringAnother brood of birds to nest and ...
Till all sweet gums and juices flow, Till the blossom of blossoms blow, The long hours go and come and ...
Sing muse! of Saville and the direful dayWhen beauty fell, to ruthless hands a prey;And life a sacrifice to savage ...
Aw, go write yer tinklin' jingle, an' yer pretty phrases mingle,Fer the mamby-pamby girl, all fluffy frill an' shinin' silk.Them's ...
It was down across the BrazosThat we rounded up to start,With about five thousand cattleFor the busy Kansas mart;There were ...
What are these women up to? They've gone and strung Drapes over the windows, cutting out light And the slightest ...
We've raised a flagpole on the farm And flung Old Glory to the sky,And it's another touch of charm ...
Fly if your pigtail catches fireDive down the nearest sinkRemember if you wash a pancakeIt's underwear's sure to shrink.Once I ...
Sweet vale of the Sussex! the pride of the Queen,Whose life has a reign of beneficence been;The flow'r of Britana's ...
Under a daisied bank There stands a rich red ruminating cow, And hard against her flank A cotton-hooded milkmaid bends ...
Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain, Where smiling spring its earliest ...
Come queen of months in company Wi all thy merry minstrelsy The restless cuckoo absent long And twittering swallows chimney ...
The Whale is found in seas and oceans, Indulging there in fishlike motions, But Science shows that Whales are mammals, ...
This English Thames is holier far than Rome, Those harebells like a sudden flush of sea Breaking across the woodland, ...
(Goya, an old man in exile, looks at his self-portrait) A bull's neck, still much needed, Deserving exile or the ...
From noiseful arms, and acts of prowess done In tournament or tilt, Sir Percivale, Whom Arthur and his knighthood called ...
The sun is hotter than the top ledge in a steam bath; The ravine, crazed, is rampaging below. Spring -- ...
Hence, loathed Melancholy, ............Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born In Stygian cave forlorn ............'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights ...
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