The Touch of the Master’s Hand (Myra Brooks Welch Poems)
'Twas battered and scarred, and the auctioneer Thought it scarcely worth his whileTo waste much time on the old violin, But held ...
'Twas battered and scarred, and the auctioneer Thought it scarcely worth his whileTo waste much time on the old violin, But held ...
NOW, Yankee inventors can beat a retreat,And German professors may take a back seat, For their colours we're going to lower:They've ...
Awm sittin o' that old stooan seeat, Wheear last aw set wi' thee;It seems long years sin' last we met, Awm sure ...
Where Humber pours his rich commercial stream,There dwelt a wretch, who breathed but to blaspheme.In subterraneous caves his life he ...
Before a rose is fully blown, The outward leaves announce decay; So, ere the spring of Youth is flown, Its tiny pleasures die ...
Mother! Darling mother, you are seeking me I know,And I feel thy love will follow through the world where'er I ...
'Tis glorious morning everywhere Save where the alleys lie-I see the fleecy steam jets bid "Good morning" to the sky.The gullies of ...
It tossed its head at the wooing breeze; And the sun, like a bashful swain,Beamed on it through the waving trees With ...
Ye shepherds so cheerful and gay,Whose flocks never carelessly roam;Should Corydon's happen to stray,Oh! call the poor wanderers home.Allow me ...
THE people up and down the world that talk and laugh and cry,They're pleasant when you're young and gay, and ...
Grey Winter hath gone, like a wearisome guest,And, behold, for repayment,September comes in with the wind of the WestAnd the ...
While deep you mourn beneath the cypress-shadeThe hand of Death, and your dear daughter laidIn dust, whose absence gives your ...
"Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas,Atque metus omnes, et inexorabile fatumSubjecit pedibus, strepitumque Acherontis avari!"IN childhood, when with eager eyes The ...
O God of the Seasons! we bringTo Thee our thankoff'rings of praise;We soar with the lark; as we sing,The skies ...
The earth is old! Six thousand ears,Are gone since I had birth;In the forests of the olden time,And the solitude's ...
HE WORKS in the glen where the waratah grows, And the gums and the ashes are tall,'Neath cliffs that re-echo the ...
These of living emanate a formidable light,Which is equal to death, and when usedGives increase eternally.What fortifies in separate thoughtIs ...
The mountain church of FrauenburgHath many a narrow bed,Where the oaken cross points upward,And peasants weep their dead;Stand we beside ...
So, sit you down in a straight-backed chair, with your pipe and your wife content,And cross your knees with your ...
When the great Creator fashion'd us, and saw that we were good,He commission'd us to dominate the planet as it ...
Died at Hartford, January 26th, 1862, aged 61.We did not think it would be so;-- We keptThe hope-lamp trimm'd and burning. ...
Only serpents let their skin be fallenAnd a soul — all grown up and old.We, alas, change an eternal soul,Leaving ...
Th'imprison'd winds slumber within their cavesFast bound: the fickle vane, emblem of change,Wavers no more, long-settling to a point.All nature ...
Abide with me! Fast falls the Eventide; The darkness thickens. Lord, with me abide When other helpers fail, and comforts flee, Help of ...
Long time one whisper'd in his ear-- "Give me my strong, pure soul; behold'Tis mine to give what men hold dear-- The ...
OH, for some cup of consummating might,Filled with life's kind conclusion, lost in night!A wine of darkness, that with death ...
I did but dream. I never knewWhat charms our sternest season wore.Was never yet the sky so blue,Was never earth ...
And I behold once moreMy old familiar haunts; here the blue river,The same blue wonder that my infant eyeAdmired, sage ...
Light as a flake of foam upon the wind,Keel-upward from the deep emerged a shell,Shaped like the moon ere half ...
Glimmers gray the leafless thicketClose beside my garden gate,Where, so light, from post to picketHops the sparrow, blithe, sedate;Who, with ...
© 2020 Inspirational Stories