The Song of City Traffic (Charles Hanson Towne Poems)
I have heard the roar and clamor through the city's crowded waysOf the never-ending pageant moving down the busy days--Coaches, ...
I have heard the roar and clamor through the city's crowded waysOf the never-ending pageant moving down the busy days--Coaches, ...
The little home paper comes to me, As badly printed as it can be; It's ungrammatical, cheap, absurd--Yet, how I ...
Roof-tops, roof-tops, what do you cover? Sad folk, bad folk, and many a glowing lover; Wise people, simple people, children ...
The sick man said: "I pray I shall not die Before this tumult which now rocks the earth Shall cease. ...
Eulenspiegel, merry lad,What a laughing life you had!Prank and jest were yours by rightOr at noontime or at night,And the ...
There are things, I know, that are sad and strange,As the world swings round in the old-time way;O Life is ...
When, sick of all the sorrow and distress That flourished in the City like foul weeds, ...
We came away from the tinsel and false,From the rings where we saw the elephants waltz;From the clowns with their ...
This was my dream in May--to have one bloom,Fragrant with apple-scent and Springtide rain,Live thro' the bleakness of the midnight ...
The brooding hours, through the dull afternoon,Pause, while a torrid sun flames in the sky.(O heart of mine, dream of ...
When Eve grew old,How many a time she must have dreamed and dreamedOf her lost Eden, with gardens all of ...
The gray year drifted outAs a tired love might go,And there was no heart to breathe a songAcross the leagues ...
When Spring, with blossom-haunted lanes,With sudden gusts of rippling rains,Came dancing down the glad young year,How soon my heart forgot ...
When one had gone awayTo join the quiet dead,Bleak, bleak for me the day,And dark the clouds o'erhead."Her voice I ...
Deep in the night I heardThe rain's mysterious word.(It was as if an old love spoke, a dead love sobbed ...
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