How Salvator Won (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
The gate was thrown open, I rode out alone,More proud than a monarch who sits on a throne.I am but ...
The gate was thrown open, I rode out alone,More proud than a monarch who sits on a throne.I am but ...
Sitting alone by the window,Watching the moonlit street,Bending my head to listenTo the well-known sound of your feet,I have been ...
Flowers of France in the Spring,Your growth is a beautiful thing;But give us your fragrance and bloom,Yea, give us your ...
The world has crowned a thousand kings:But destiny has keptHer weightiest hour of kingly powerTo offer England's son.The rising bell ...
In the fair morning of his life, When his pure heart lay in his breast, Panting, ...
Long, long ago, ere yet our race began,When earth was empty, waiting still for man,Before the breath of life to ...
The devil in hell gave a festival,And he called his imps from their wine—Called them up from the ruddy cup,And ...
ISaid Life to Death: "Methinks, if I were you, I would not carry such an awesome face To terrify the ...
She rose up in the early dawn,And white and silently she movedAbout the house. Four men had goneTo battle for ...
"Black sheep, black sheep, have you any wool?""Yes, sir—yes, sir: three bags full.""I don't want any New Thought," said he,"Or ...
By the castle-gate my lady stands,Viewing broad acres and spreading lands.Hill and valley and mead and plainAre all her own, ...
To-night when I came from the club at eleven,Under the gaslight I saw a face—A woman's face! and I swear ...
My babe was moaning in its sleep,I leaned and kissed it where it lay,My pain was such I could not ...
Well, how has it been with you since we metThat last strange time of a hundred times?When we met to ...
She waited in a rose-hued room;A wanton-hearted creature she,But beautiful and bright to seeAs some great orchid just in bloom.Upon ...
In Vanity Fair, as we bow and smile,As we talk of the opera after the weather,As we chat of fashion ...
When Christmas bells are swinging above the fields of snow,We hear sweet voices ringing from lands of long ago.And etched ...
Sometimes when I have dropped asleep, Draped in soft luxurious gloom, Across my drowsy mind will creep ...
It may be you've seen her eyes,Dark and deep like midnight skies;You mayhap have seen them flashUnderneath the drooping lash,And ...
Batter in the home place,That was nobly done;Try and get the first base—Run! Run! RUN!Ah, there, short stop, will you ...
I am troubled to-night with a curious pain;It is not of the flesh, it is not of the brain,Nor yet ...
I step across the mystic border-land,And look upon the wonder-world of Art.How beautiful, how beautiful its hills!And all its valleys, ...
All that I ask, says Love, "is just to standAnd gaze, unchided, deep in thy dear eyes;For in their depths ...
Be not dismayed, be not dismayed when deathSets its white seal upon some worshipped face.Poor human nature for a little ...
You know that oasis, fresh and fairIn the city desert, as Greeley square?That bright triangle of scented bloomThat lies surrounded ...
There are curious isles in the River of Sleep,Curious isles without number.We'll visit them all as we leisurely creepDown the ...
Sometimes I feel so passionate a yearningFor spiritual perfection here below,This vigorous frame, with healthful fervor burning,Seems my determined foe,So ...
The Truth Teller lifts the curtain,And shows us the people's plight;And everything seems uncertain,And nothing at all looks right.Yet out ...
Have you heard of the king of Candy land?Well, listen while I sing,He has pages on every hand,For he is ...
Out over childhood's borders,Manhood's brave banners unfurled,Weighed down with precepts and ordersA boy has gone into the world.Nobody thinks it ...
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