The Young Volunteer (Dora Sigerson Shorter Poems)
With a knock upon the window comes the young volunteer, 'Tis his step upon the threshold; "what is it brings ...
With a knock upon the window comes the young volunteer, 'Tis his step upon the threshold; "what is it brings ...
In a wood they call Rouge BouquetThere is a new-made grave today,Built by never a spade nor pickYet covered with ...
HAIL harbinger of spring! Already on the wing,Humming thy lengthen'd notes along the vale; ...
FRIEND of the dead, and friend of all my days Even since they cast off boyhood, I salute ...
As sweet as the look of a loverSaluting the eyes of a maidThat blossom to blue as the maidIs ablush ...
In the sheltered garden pale beneath the moon,(Drenched with swaying fragrance, redolent with June!)There, among the shadows, some one lingers ...
In the cool of morning Andrew Jackson came,A young man riding on a horse of flame,Tossed the reins to a ...
(EDWARD VII.) 1910 Who in the Realm to-day lays down dear life for the sake of a land more dear? ...
Not with an outcry to Allah nor any complaining He answered his name at the muster and stood to the ...
Ahasuerus Jenkins of the "Operatic Own," Was dowered with a tenor voice of super-Santley tone. His views on equitation were, ...
I PRELUDE Daughter of Psyche, pledge of that last night When, pierced with pain and bitter-sweet delight, She knew her ...
Upon Concluded Lives There's nothing cooler falls -- Than Life's sweet Calculations -- The mixing Bells and Palls -- Make ...
It grew out of the Annexe and our Corps in a world at peace while our army trained, magnificent in ...
A poet's cat, sedate and grave As poet well could wish to have, Was much addicted to inquire For nooks ...
I Remember all those renowned generations, They left their bodies to fatten the wolves, They left their homesteads to fatten ...
A BATTER'D, wreck'd old man, Thrown on this savage shore, far, far from home, Pent by the sea, and dark ...
1 WHEN lilacs last in the door-yard bloom'd, And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the ...
1 AS I sat alone, by blue Ontario's shore, As I mused of these mighty days, and of peace return'd, ...
to Robert Hass and in memory of Elliot Gilbert Slow dulcimer, gavotte and bow, in autumn, Bashõ and his friends ...
Middle-aged life is merry, and I love to lead it, But there comes a day when your eyes are all ...
I was out early to-day, spying about From the top of a haystack -- such a lovely morning -- And ...
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