In The Carlyle House, Chelsea (Dora Sigerson Shorter Poems)
Up the steep stair they clatter to each room, In whispered merriment they pierce the gloom Of Time's sweet mercy, ...
Up the steep stair they clatter to each room, In whispered merriment they pierce the gloom Of Time's sweet mercy, ...
For one short week I leave, with anxious heart,Source of my filial cares, the Full of Days,Lur'd by the promise ...
As busy Aurelia, 'twixt work and 'twixt play, Was labouring industriously hardTo cull the vile weeds from the flowerets away, ...
i was talking to a moththe other eveninghe was trying to break intoan electric light bulband fry himself on the ...
In a garden of delight,Where sweet Nature's wand disclosesWondrous vistas to the sight,Once I met a rose-bush, dightIn a wealth ...
Gray clouds my heaven have covered o'er;My sea ebbs fast, no more to flow;Ghastly and dry, my desert shoreParched, bare, ...
SWEET painted flutt'rer! often have I view'd Thy sportive gambols in the blue serene;And frequently indulg'd the pensive mood, ...
As the ambitious sculptor, tireless, liftsChisel and hammer to the block at hand,Before my half-formed character I standAnd ply the ...
Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, Of thee, from the hill-top looking down; And the heifer, that lows ...
STEP me now a bridal measure, Work give way to love and leisure, Hearts be free and hearts be gay ...
'Tis morning; and the sun, with ruddy orb Ascending, fires th' horizon: while the clouds, That crowd away before the ...
I. June was not over Though past the fall, And the best of her roses Had yet to blow, When ...
LONE on the bleaky hills the straying flocks Shun the fierce storms among the sheltering rocks; Down from the rivulets, ...
You often look at her at some nights, when she is asleep so sound so tight. You wonder how come ...
Fear, like a living fire that only death Might one day cool, had now in Avon's eyes Been witness for ...
Mother, mother, what ill-bred aunt Or what disfigured and unsightly Cousin did you so unwisely keep Unasked to my christening, ...
Wreath the bowl With flowers of soul, The brightest Wit can find us, We'll take a flight Towards heaven to-night, ...
Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn From his displeasure; in whose look serene, When angry most he seemed and most ...
O, for that warning voice, which he, who saw The Apocalypse, heard cry in Heaven aloud, Then when the Dragon, ...
Descend from Heaven, Urania, by that name If rightly thou art called, whose voice divine Following, above the Olympian hill ...
A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before The Earl Of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wales. The Persons The ATTENDANT ...
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