Father (Edgar Albert Guest Poem)
My father knows the proper way The nation should be run; He tells us children every day Just what should ...
My father knows the proper way The nation should be run; He tells us children every day Just what should ...
Lovers in the act despense With such meum-tuum sense As might warningly reveal What they must not pick or steal, ...
The gold-hoarder walked in his palace park and with him walked his troubles. And over his head hovered worries as ...
A young man of strong body, weakened by hunger, sat on the walker's portion of the street stretching his hand ...
And one of the elders of the city said, "Speak to us of Good and Evil." And he answered: Of ...
Jesus and the two thieves each dying on their cross coming to the end the moments slipping away Lessons in ...
With Christ crucified humble, simple men the two thieves on the cross dying beside the Lord What they must have ...
Watched over by the animals in the stable, his manger bed love came into the world born to save us ...
The Christ and the two thieves hanging on crosses to die one joined Christ that day November 14, 2009 (Raymond ...
On Calvary's hill three crosses, their shadows remain down through the generations The three crosses the sacrifice of the savior; ...
TO charms and philters, secret spells and prayers, How many round attribute all their cares! In these howe'er I never ...
NO better Dog e'er kept his Master's Door Than honest Snarl, who spar'd nor Rich nor Poor; But gave the ...
As told to a child When we locked up the house at night, We always locked the flowers outside And ...
"You ought to have seen what I saw on my way To the village, through Mortenson's pasture to-day: Blueberries as ...
Give me truths, For I am weary of the surfaces, And die of inanition. If I knew Only the herbs ...
If he from Heav'n that filch'd that living fire Condemn'd by Jove to endless torment be, I greatly marvel how ...
A tale that the poet Rückert told To German children, in days of old; Disguised in a random, rollicking rhyme ...
You dare to say with perjured lips, "We fight to make the ocean free"? You, whose black trail of butchered ...
June 22, 1611 THE SHALLOP ON HUDSON BAY One sail in sight upon the lonely sea And only one, God ...
(Mark, xi.17) Thy mansion is the Christian's heart, O Lord, Thy dwelling place secure! Bid the unruly throng depart, And ...
THE PROLOGUE. The Sompnour in his stirrups high he stood, Upon this Friar his hearte was so wood,* *furious That ...
The landscape sleeps in mist from morn till noon; And, if the sun looks through, 'tis with a face Beamless ...
You came to me as rain breaks on the desert when every flower springs to life at once, but joy ...
THE HUNCHBACK TROUT The creek was made narrow by little green trees that grew too close together. The creek was ...
Free of memory and of hope, limitless, abstract, almost future, the dead man is not a dead man: he is ...
ON WHICH THE JEWS WERE FORCED TO ATTEND AN ANNUAL CHRISTIAN SERMON IN ROME. [``Now was come about Holy-Cross Day, ...
I. How well I know what I mean to do When the long dark autumn-evenings come: And where, my soul, ...
I What's become of Waring Since he gave us all the slip, Chose land-travel or seafaring, Boots and chest, or ...
(As Distinguished by an Italian Person of Quality) I Had I but plenty of money, money enough and to spare, ...
FROM those drear solitudes and frowsy cells, Where Infamy with sad Repentance dwells; Where turnkeys make the jealous portal fast, ...
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