The Boy On The Prairie (Edwin Ford Piper Poems)
"At thirteen he first saw a railway trainWith all the amazing violence of the wheels,And the coughing engine, and the ...
"At thirteen he first saw a railway trainWith all the amazing violence of the wheels,And the coughing engine, and the ...
They in the darkness gather and ask Her name, the mistress of their endless task. The Toilers ...
WHEN he pushed his bush of black hair off his brow:When she lifted her mop from her eyes, and screwed ...
I HAVE a little kinsman Whose earthly summers are but three, And yet a voyager is he Greater than Drake ...
Three men that three gray mules bestrodeWent riding through a lonesome road --Dust from the largest to the leastUp to ...
Full patiently the fisherman lay rocking, rocking, rocking;Against his boat the little waves came knocking, knocking, knocking,The dark little waves, ...
A music-stand of crimson lacquer, long since brought In some fast clipper-ship from China, quaintly wrought With bossed and carven ...
I The Trumpet-Vine Arbour The throats of the little red trumpet-flowers are wide open, And the clangour of brass beats ...
Lord, how couldst thou so much appease Thy wrath for sin, as when man's sight was dim, And could see ...
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
New England. 1 Alas, dear Mother, fairest Queen and best, 2 With honour, wealth, and peace happy and blest, 3 ...
'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede - Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to ...
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...
A Child's Story Hamelin Town's in Brunswick, By famous Hanover city; The river Weser, deep and wide, Washes its wall ...
This English Thames is holier far than Rome, Those harebells like a sudden flush of sea Breaking across the woodland, ...
In another time, a linen winding sheet would already have been drawn about her, the funeral drums by now would ...
THE LANDS OF MY CHILDHOOD 1 I am leaving the holy city of Leeds For the last time for the ...
His mother dear Cupid offended late, Because that Mars grown slacker in her love, With pricking shot he did not ...
One day, whiles that my daylie cares did sleepe, My spirit, shaking off her earthly prison, Began to enter into ...
But, lo! from forth a copse that neighbours by, A breeding jennet, lusty, young, and proud, Adonis' trampling courser doth ...
MORNING and evening Maids heard the goblins cry: "Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy: Apples and quinces, ...
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