To a Usurper (Eugene Field Poem)
Aha! a traitor in the camp, A rebel strangely bold,-- A lisping, laughing, toddling scamp, Not more than four years ...
Aha! a traitor in the camp, A rebel strangely bold,-- A lisping, laughing, toddling scamp, Not more than four years ...
Play that my knee was a calico mare Saddled and bridled for Bumpville; Leap to the back of this steed, ...
All day long they come and go-- Pittypat and Tippytoe; Footprints up and down the hall, Playthings scattered on the ...
WHAT various ways in which a thing is told Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold; In stories we invention ...
A governor it was proclaimed this time, When all who would come seeking in New Hampshire Ancestral memories might come ...
I DWELL in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago, And left no trace but the ...
Venus, when her son was lost, Cried him up and down the coast, In hamlets, palaces, and parks, And told ...
To slip into your shadow under cover of night. To follow your footsteps, your shadow at the window. That shadow ...
Nothing but "No," and "Aye," and "Aye," and "No"? How falls it out so strangely you reply? I tell ye, ...
Like an advent'rous seafarer am I, Who hath some long and dang'rous voyage been, And, call'd to tell of his ...
Consecrated to the Glorious Memory of His Most Serene and Renowned Highness, Oliver, Late Lord Protector of This Commonwealth, etc. ...
I The other night I had a dream, most clear And comforting, complete In every line, a crystal sphere, And ...
Ere on my bed my limbs I lay, It hath not been my use to pray With moving lips or ...
Part I It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three. 'By thy long grey beard and glittering ...
So sweet love seemed that April morn, When first we kissed beside the thorn, So strangely sweet, it was not ...
I. THE GARDEN. ABOVE the city hung the moon, Right o'er a plot of ground Where flowers and orchard-trees were ...
Often rebuked, yet always back returning To those first feelings that were born with me, And leaving busy chase of ...
"O day! he cannot die When thou so fair art shining! O Sun, in such a glorious sky, So tranquilly ...
He wakes, who never thought to wake again, Who held the end was Death. He opens eyes Slowly, to one ...
So light we were, so right we were, so fair faith shone, And the way was laid so certainly, that, ...
Tenderly, day that I have loved, I close your eyes, And smooth your quiet brow, and fold your thin dead ...
1.1 Lo now! four other acts upon the stage, 1.2 Childhood, and Youth, the Manly, and Old-age. 1.3 The first: ...
"Oh yes, I went over to Edmonstoun the other day and saw Johnny, mooning around as usual! He will never ...
'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede - Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to ...
Peter's not friendly. He gives me sideways looks. The architecture is far from reassuring. I feel uneasy. A pity,â?"the interview ...
I. You're my friend: I was the man the Duke spoke to; I helped the Duchess to cast off his ...
As evening falls, The walls grow luminous and warm, the walls Tremble and glow with the lives within them moving, ...
Well, as you say, we live for small horizons: We move in crowds, we flow and talk together, Seeing so ...
Over the darkened city, the city of towers, The city of a thousand gates, Over the gleaming terraced roofs, the ...
A quay with vessels moored Thomas To India! Yea, here I may take ship; From here the courses go over ...
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