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 ...
I knew that a baby was hid in that house,Though I saw no cradle and heard no cry;But the husband ...
We will be what we could be. Do not say,'It might have been, had not this, or that, or this.'No ...
A trusting little leaf of green,A bold audacious frost;A rendezvous, a kiss or two,And youth for ever lost.Ah, me!The bitter, ...
IOh, for the power to call to aid, of mineOwn humble Muse, the famed and sacred nine.Then might she fitly ...
IAs in the long dead days marauding hostsOf Indians came from far Siberian coasts,And drove the peaceful Aztecs from their ...
IAll valor died not on the plains of Troy.Awake, my Muse, awake! be thine the joyTo sing of deeds as ...
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 ...
Sit still, I say, and dispense with heroics!I hurt your wrists? Well, you have hurt me.It is time you found ...
Fire! Fire! Fire! the cry rang out on the night air,The roving winds caught it up, and the very heavens ...
The gate was thrown open, I rode out alone,More proud than a monarch who sits on a throne.I am but ...
The sun rode high in a cloudless skyOf a perfect summer morn.She stood and gazed out into the street,And wondered ...
Sitting alone by the window,Watching the moonlit street,Bending my head to listenTo the well-known sound of your feet,I have been ...
In his great cushioned chair by the fenderAn old man sits dreaming to-night,His withered hands, licked by the tender,Warm rays ...
Flowers of France in the Spring,Your growth is a beautiful thing;But give us your fragrance and bloom,Yea, give us your ...
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, ...
Long, long ago, ere yet our race began,When earth was empty, waiting still for man,Before the breath of life to ...
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, ...
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 ...
ISir Knight of the world's oldest order,Sir Knight of the Army of God,You have crossed the strange mystical border,The ground ...
A rose in my garden, the sweetest and fairest,Was hanging her head through the long golden hours;And early one morning ...
All through the Castle of High-bred Ease,Where the chief employment was do-as-you-please,Spread consternation and wild despair.The queen was wringing her ...
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