The Schoolhouse On The Plain (Joseph Furphy Poems)
(From "An Idyll of the Wimmera.")On the geodetic line, where the parish boundaries joinAt a level and interminable laneYou can ...
(From "An Idyll of the Wimmera.")On the geodetic line, where the parish boundaries joinAt a level and interminable laneYou can ...
O thou, my beauteous, ever tender Friend,Thou, on whom all my worldly Joys depend,Accept these Numbers; and with Pleasure hearUnstudy'd ...
The burghers six of Calais,True were they and brave;To save their fellow-townsmenTheir lives they freely gave.Will ye hear their story?Come ...
Tell me, ye prim adepts in Scandal's school,Who rail by precept, and detract by rule,Lives there no character, so tried, ...
IFirst LoveTHOUGH nurtured like the sailing moonIn beauty's murderous brood,She walked awhile and blushed awhileAnd on my pathway stoodUntil I ...
TO have written then, when you writ, seem'd to meWorst of spiritual vices, simony ;And not to have written then ...
Twelve years ago, when I could face High heaven's dome with different eyes-In days full-flowered with hours of grace, And nights not ...
On these green banks, where falls too soonThe shade of Autumn's afternoon,The south wind blowing soft and sweet,The water gliding ...
Died at Hartford, August 4th, 1861; and his wife, Mrs. ELIZA STORRSTRUMBULL, the night after his funeral.Death's shafts fly thick, ...
In a far-away glen of the hills, Where the bird of the night is at rest,Shut in from the thunder that ...
I need not ask thee, for my sake,To read a book which well may makeIts way by native force of ...
We are accused of terrorismIf we dare to write about the remains of a homelandThat is scattered in pieces and ...
I love to spend the twilight hour When stars their radiance o'er me cast, With that benign mysterious power Which calls up mem'ries ...
IN these degenerate times the Muses blendFor thee a wreath, their guardian and their friend;Thee, lib'ral MOIRA , in whose ...
Wife of Govenor ELLSWORTH, and daughter of Noah Webster, LL.D., diedat Hartford, August 23d, 1861.Not with the common forms of ...
All winterThe trees held up their silent hivesAs if they mattered.But on one main street of bars and lights,I watched ...
Elegant Fairy, whose engaging waysHave rais'd thee to a throne in my esteemHigh above all thy sex!-Unrivall'd maid,Who, ever to ...
On the lake of young life is a fairy boat,Like the sweet new moon in a summer sky;Through a calm ...
The love of Christ, poor I! may touch upon;But 'tis unsearchable. O! there is noneIts large dimensions can comprehendShould they ...
Tree of our state and emblem of neatness, Beauty and grace abide in thy form; Not in thy blood alone courses a ...
Blessings on thee, noble boy! With thy sunny eyes of blue, Speaking in their cloudless depths Of a spirit pure and true. In thy ...
Let them, who doe attempt both day and night, To sacke the fort of reason, Perverting Natures lawes, and order quite, Misuseing Time, ...
Not alone by generous birth (Greatly though it fashions men),Not by all the wealth of earth, Not by all the talents ten,Not ...
_With a will! With a will! With a will and surely! Without fail, Drive each nail, Build we so, securely_!The Pioneer,--the Undaunted One,Worn with long ...
Widow of the late SPENCER WHITING, Esq., died at Hartford, April,1859, aged 88.Life's work well done, how beautiful to rest.Aye, ...
Who'll walk the fields with us to town,In an old coat and a faded gown?We take our roots and country ...
There is something so beseeching in the attitude of sleep, A pathetic resignation, most appealing to the heart. .There must surely ...
It is written, Be ye holy, for I am holy.Holy thoughts! the spirit guard,With a faithful watch and ward;Float for ...
TUSKEGEE, ALA., APRIL 22, 1901. Not to the midnight of the gloomy past, Do we revert to-day; we look upon The golden present ...
Lord Lundy from his earliest yearsWas far too freely moved to Tears.For instance if his Mother said,"Lundy! It's time to ...
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