Cui Bono? (Henry Kendall Poems)
A CLAMOUR by day and a whisper by night, And the Summer comes-with the shining noons,With the ripple of leaves, and ...
A CLAMOUR by day and a whisper by night, And the Summer comes-with the shining noons,With the ripple of leaves, and ...
By the sad fellowship of human suffering, By the bereavements that are thine and mine,I venture--oh, forgive me!--with this offering, I would ...
A.HE is a man whose complex characterFew can decipher rightly; but for meI have found the key at last!B.What make ...
Saint Brandan sails the northern main;The brotherhood of saints are glad.He greets them once, he sails again;So late!-such storms!-The Saint ...
Come, Little One, and sing to me A song our big wide land to bless,Around whose gentle parent-knee We've twined the flowers ...
The Shaman, when he had searched in the hearts of that multitude of exiles,said to himself: "Verily, I have not ...
ON A DISTANT VIEW OF HIS COUNTRY, WHICHHE IS QUITTING FOR EVER.DEAR distant land, whose mountains blueStill bound this wild ...
A JUDGEMENT clear, a pensive mindWith feelings tender and refined;A generous heart in kindness glowing,An open hand on all bestowing;A ...
The burly driver at my side,We slowly climbed the hill,Whose summit, in the hot noontide,Seemed rising, rising still.At last, our ...
Oh, give me some heart of a kindred spirit That smiles when I smile, or that weeps when I weep, Whose solace ...
I hate this City, seated on the Plain, The clang and clamour of the hot Bazar,Knowing, amid the pauses of my ...
At length, by so much importunity press'd, Take, C{-}{-}, at once, the inside of my breast; This stupid indiff'rence so often you ...
A moment's pause before we play our parts,To speak the thought that reigns within your hearts.--Now from the Future's hours, ...
Breakfast at the Century Club, New York, May, 1879.SUCH kindness! the scowl of a cynic would soften,His pulse beat its ...
Awake, my sluggish soul! from sleep awake,And with a heart sincere attempt to sing(In the most daring flight thy thoughts ...
IT was pure indeed,The air we breathed in, the light we saw,I and my brother, when we played that day,Or ...
Little childer,--little childer; Harken to an old man's ditty;Tho yo live ith' country village,-- Tho yo live ith' busy city.Aw've a little ...
YON whey-faced brother, who delights to wearA weedy flux of ill-conditioned hair,Seems of the sort that in a crowded placeOne ...
'O lachrymarum fons, tenero sacrosDucentium ortus ex animo; quaterFelix! in imo qui scatentemPectore te, pia Nympha, sensit.'~GRAYWhen Friendship or Love ...
I bow down at the feet of the wish-fulfilling Guru.Pray vouchsafe me your grace in bestowing beneficial food,Pray make me ...
The home of my soul, worn and weary, And pierced by the rocks of old time,The windows grown dim and the ...
Dear Christians, one and all rejoice,With exultation springing,And with united heart and voiceAnd holy rapture singing,Proclaim the wonders God hath ...
I SAT me down upon a green bank-side,Skirting the smooth edge of a gentle river,Whose waters seemed unwillingly to glide,Like ...
An alarm is sounding through the land That tells of a stronger foe Than that which marched on Lexington, To strike a fatal ...
Passing Berytus' ancient strand,I journeyed in the Holy Land,And made my way to Sychar's wall;And there, within his princely hall,By ...
As Rueben wor smookin his pipe tother neet, Bi th' corner o'th' little "Slip Inn;"He spied some fowk marchin, an fancied ...
Tonight when I knelt down next to our cat, Zooey,And put my fingers into her clean cat's mouth,And rubbed her ...
The circle is broken, one seat is forsaken,One bud from the tree of our friendship is shaken;One heart from among ...
When streams of unkindness, as bitter as gall, Bubble up from the heart to the tongue,And Meekness is writhing in torment ...
Why dost thou come at set of sun,Those pensive words to say?Why whip poor Will?--What has he done?And who is ...
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