Mortality (Eugene Field Poems)
O Nicias, not for us alone Was laughing Eros born, Nor shines alone for us the moon, Nor ...
O Nicias, not for us alone Was laughing Eros born, Nor shines alone for us the moon, Nor ...
In Mrs. Potter's latest play The costuming is fine; Her waist is made decollete-- Her skirt is new ...
Where wail the waters in their flaw A spectre wanders to and fro, And evermore that ghostly shore Bemoans the ...
There were three cavaliers that went over the Rhine, And gayly they called to the hostess for wine. "And where ...
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe,-- Sailed on a river of crystal light Into ...
Up in the attic where I slept When I was a boy, a little boy, In through the lattice the ...
(A BALLAD IN THE ANGLO-SAXON TONGUE) When to the dreary greenwood gloam Winfreda's husband strode that day, The fair Winfreda ...
Of all the opry-houses then obtaining in the West The one which Milton Tootle owned was, by all odds, the ...
With big tin trumpet and little red drum, Marching like soldiers, the children come! It 's this way and that ...
How trifling shall these gifts appear Among the splendid many That loving friends now send to cheer Harvey and Ellen ...
There--let thy hands be folded Awhile in sleep's repose; The patient hands that wearied not, But earnestly and nobly wrought ...
I see you, Maister Bawsy-brown, Through yonder lattice creepin'; You come for cream and to gar me dream, But you ...
There are two phrases, you must know, So potent (yet so small) That wheresoe'er a man may go He needs ...
I Once a fowler, young and artless, To the quiet greenwood came; Full of skill was he and heartless In ...
I.--TO MISTRESS BARBARA There were three cavaliers, all handsome and true, On Valentine's day came a maiden to woo, And ...
Cinna, the great Venusian told In songs that will not die How in Augustan days of old Your love did ...
(ALASKAN BALLAD) The Northland reared his hoary head And spied the Southland leagues away-- "Fairest of all fair brides," he ...
O hapless day! O wretched day! I hoped you'd pass me by-- Alas, the years have sneaked away And all ...
'Tis years, soubrette, since last we met; And yet--ah, yet, how swift and tender My thoughts go back in time's ...
Aha! a traitor in the camp, A rebel strangely bold,-- A lisping, laughing, toddling scamp, Not more than four years ...
It is very aggravating To hear the solemn prating Of the fossils who are stating That old Horace was a ...
My Shepherd is the Lord my God,-- There is no want I know; His flock He leads in verdant meads, ...
There were two little skeezucks who lived in the isle Of Boo in a southern sea; They clambered and rollicked ...
Upon a mountain height, far from the sea, I found a shell, And to my listening ear the lonely thing ...
(THE TALE) Cometh the Wind from the garden, fragrant and full of sweet singing-- Under my tree where I sit ...
When I am in New York, I like to drop around at night, To visit with my honest, genial friends, ...
Last night the Stork came stalking, And, Stork, beneath your wing Lay, lapped in dreamless slumber, The tiniest little thing! ...
Way up at the top of a big stack of straw Was the cunningest parlor that ever you saw! And ...
Have you ever heard of the Sugar-Plum Tree? 'T is a marvel of great renown! It blooms on the shore ...
I shall tell you in rhyme how, once on a time, Three tailors tramped up to the inn Ingleheim, On ...
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