A Fatal Impress (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
A little leaf just in the forest's edge,All summer long, had listened to the wooingOf amorous brids that flew across ...
A little leaf just in the forest's edge,All summer long, had listened to the wooingOf amorous brids that flew across ...
And now, when poets are singing Their songs of olden days, And now, when the land is ringing With sweet ...
There was a sound in the wind to-day,Like a joyous cymbal ringing!And the leaves of the trees talked with the ...
Fire! Fire! Fire! the cry rang out on the night air,The roving winds caught it up, and the very heavens ...
In his great cushioned chair by the fenderAn old man sits dreaming to-night,His withered hands, licked by the tender,Warm rays ...
We were a baker's dozen in the house—six women and six menBesides myself; and all of us had knownThose benefits ...
The four winds of earth, the North, South, East, and West,Shrieked and groaned, sobbed and wailed, like the soul of ...
Once over the ocean in distant lands,In an age long past, were two hostile bands—Two armies of men, both brave, ...
On the sea of life they floated,Brothers twain in manhood's pride,And the good ship "Temperance" bore them,Safely o'er the stormy ...
In the silent midnight watches,When the earth was clothed in gloom,And the grim and awful darknessCrept unbidden to my room—On ...
The world was widowed by the death of Christ:Vainly its suffering soul for peace has soughtAnd found it not.For nothing, ...
A CURIOUS vision, on mine eyes unfurledIn the deep night. I saw, or seemed to see,Two Centuries meet, and sit ...
Last was the wealth I carried in life's pack—Youth, health, ambition, hope and trust but TimeAnd Fate, those robbers fit ...
When night hung low and dew fell damp,There fell athwart the shadowsThe gleaming watchfires of the camp,Like glow-worms on the ...
A mother kneels by the cradle,Where her little infant lies,And she sees the ghastly shadowsCreeping around his eyes.And she clasps ...
We met at night in the season's hight,Mid revel and mirth and song.I looked in your eye with a mute, ...
A little time agone, a few brief years,And there was peace within our beauteous borders;Peace, and a prosperous people, and ...
The Muse said, Let us sing a little songWherein no hint of wrong,No echo of the great world need, or ...
Toward even when the day leans down, To kiss the upturned face of night, Out just beyond the ...
She rose up in the early dawn,And white and silently she movedAbout the house. Four men had goneTo battle for ...
I saw the farmer, when the day was done,And the proud sun had sought his crimson bed,And the mild stars ...
There are not many sins when once we sift them.In actions of evolving human soulsStriving to reach high goalsAnd falling ...
Said Willie to Tom "Let us hie awayTo the wonderful Island of Endless Play.It lies off the border of 'No ...
Dying? I am not dying. Are you mad?You think I need to ask for heavenly grace?I think you are a ...
Though you see no banded army,Though you hear no cannons rattle,We are in a mighty contest,We are fighting a great ...
Here is a lock of his soft, dark hair,And here are the letters he wrote to me.And the ring of ...
Oh many a duel the world has seenThat was bittter with hate, that was red with gore,But I sing of ...
My babe was moaning in its sleep,I leaned and kissed it where it lay,My pain was such I could not ...
Where are the temperance people?Well, scattered here and there:Some gathering in their produceTo show at the autumn fair;Some threshing wheat ...
On the white throat of useless passionThat scorched my soul with its burning breathI clutched my hands in murderous fashion,And ...
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