The stork (Eugene Field Poem)
Last night the Stork came stalking, And, Stork, beneath your wing Lay, lapped in dreamless slumber, The tiniest little thing! ...
Last night the Stork came stalking, And, Stork, beneath your wing Lay, lapped in dreamless slumber, The tiniest little thing! ...
Two dreams came down to earth one night From the realm of mist and dew; One was a dream of ...
When the busy day is done, And my weary little one Rocketh gently to and fro; When the night winds ...
WHAT various ways in which a thing is told Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold; In stories we invention ...
Higher far, Upward, into the pure realm, Over sun or star, Over the flickering Dæmon film, Thou must mount for ...
A woman's taking her late-afternoon walk on Chestnut where no sidewalk exists and houses with gravel driveways sit back among ...
Thou youngest virgin-daughter of the skies, Made in the last promotion of the Blest; Whose palms, new pluck'd from Paradise, ...
To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady, Mrs Anne Killigrew, Excellent in the Two Sister-arts of Poesy and ...
All human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey: This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, ...
I IN EXCELSIS Two dwellings, Peace, are thine. One is the mountain-height, Uplifted in the loneliness of light Beyond the ...
Fond woman, which wouldst have thy husband die, And yet complain'st of his great jealousy; If swol'n with poison, he ...
Unto the Whole -- how add? Has "All" a further realm -- Or Utmost an Ulterior? Oh, Subsidy of Balm! ...
To own a Susan of my own Is of itself a Bliss -- Whatever Realm I forfeit, Lord, Continue me ...
Softened by Time's consummate plush, How sleek the woe appears That threatened childhood's citadel And undermined the years. Bisected now, ...
Obtaining but our own Extent In whatsoever Realm -- 'Twas Christ's own personal Expanse That bore him from the Tomb ...
It came his turn to beg -- The begging for the life Is different from another Alms 'Tis Penury in ...
I sued the News -- yet feared -- the News That such a Realm could be -- "The House not ...
From his slim Palace in the Dust He relegates the Realm, More loyal for the exody That has befallen him. ...
Frigid and sweet Her parting Face -- Frigid and fleet my Feet -- Alien and vain whatever Clime Acrid whatever ...
Far from Love the Heavenly Father Leads the Chosen Child, Oftener through Realm of Briar Than the Meadow mild. Oftener ...
Distance -- is not the Realm of Fox Nor by Relay of Bird Abated -- Distance is Until thyself, Beloved. ...
Because that you are going And never coming back And I, however absolute, May overlook your Track -- Because that ...
A Wind that rose Though not a Leaf In any Forest stirred But with itself did cold engage Beyond the ...
A Mien to move a Queen -- Half Child -- Half Heroine -- An Orleans in the Eye That puts ...
To lose thee -- sweeter than to gain All other hearts I knew. 'Tis true the drought is destitute, But ...
I have no Life but this -- To lead it here -- Nor any Death -- but lest Dispelled from ...
How soft this Prison is How sweet these sullen bars No Despot but the King of Down Invented this repose ...
Whangaehu waters, hot-spilled from the cauldron of Crater Lake, swirling mud-green from the cup between Tahurangi and Pyramid Peak, sulphurous, ...
Hear me, Lord of the Stars! For thee I have worshipped ever With stains and sorrows and scars, With joyful, ...
Hear me, Lord of the Stars! For thee I have worshipped ever With stains and sorrows and scars, With joyful, ...
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