The Camp Fire (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
When night hung low and dew fell damp,There fell athwart the shadowsThe gleaming watchfires of the camp,Like glow-worms on the ...
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 ...
A granite rock on the mountain side Gazed on ...
The harsh King—Winter—sat upon the hills, And reigned and ruled the earth right royally. He locked the rivers, ...
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 ...
Into the world's most high and holy placesMen carry selfishness, and graft and greed.The air is rent with warring of ...
The Muse said, Let us sing a little songWherein no hint of wrong,No echo of the great world need, or ...
The man of God stands, on the Sabbath-day,Warning the sinners from the broad highwayThat leads to death. He rolls his ...
There was a fair green garden slopingFrom the south-east side of the mountain-ledge;And the earliest tint of the dawn came ...
I saw them sitting in the shade;The long green vines hung over,But could not hide the gold-haired maidAnd Earl, my ...
The devil in hell gave a festival,And he called his imps from their wine—Called them up from the ruddy cup,And ...
Toward even when the day leans down, To kiss the upturned face of night, Out just beyond the ...
ISaid Life to Death: "Methinks, if I were you, I would not carry such an awesome face To terrify the ...
The devil to Bacchus said, one day,In a scowling, growling, petulant way,As he came from earth to hell:"There's a soul ...
There sat two glasses, filled to the brim, On a rich man's table, rim to rim. One was ruddy and ...
Three Souls there were that reached the Heavenly Gate,And gained permission of the Guard to wait.Barred from the bliss of ...
She rose up in the early dawn,And white and silently she movedAbout the house. Four men had goneTo battle for ...
False! Good God, I am dreaming!No, no, it never can be—You who are so true in seeming,You, false to your ...
There's a terrible steed that rests not night nor day,But onward and onward, for ever away,Through hamlet, through village, through ...
In Nature's bright blossoms not always reposesThat strange subtle essence more rare than their bloom,Which lies in the hearts of ...
In every part of the thrifty town,Whether my course be up or down,In lane, and alley, and avenue,Painted in yellow, ...
I saw the farmer, when the day was done,And the proud sun had sought his crimson bed,And the mild stars ...
I: BLINDWhen first the shadows fell, like prison bars,And darkness spread before me, like a pall,I cried out for the ...
"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 ...
There are not many sins when once we sift them.In actions of evolving human soulsStriving to reach high goalsAnd falling ...
The sweet young Spring walks over the earth,It flushes and glows on moor and lea;The birds are singing in careless ...
Some cawing Crows, a hooting Owl,A Hawk, a Canary, an old Marsh-Fowl,One day all meet togetherTo hold a caucus and ...
What are these nameless mysteries,These subtleties of life and death,That bring before our spirit eyesThe loved and lost; or, like ...
Said Willie to Tom "Let us hie awayTo the wonderful Island of Endless Play.It lies off the border of 'No ...
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