Wild Gratitude (Edward Hirsch Poems)
Tonight when I knelt down next to our cat, Zooey,And put my fingers into her clean cat's mouth,And rubbed her ...
Tonight when I knelt down next to our cat, Zooey,And put my fingers into her clean cat's mouth,And rubbed her ...
IT is Christmas, and the sunshineLies golden on the fields,And flowers of white and purpleYonder fragrant creeper yields.Like the plumes ...
Already 'neath the morning starThe shrine, by Juno's favor blest,Had flashed its whiteness from afar,Resplendent on a mountain's crest,Along whose ...
Morning.Out from the hut at break of day,And up the hills in the dawning grey;With the young wind flowingFrom the ...
All day long the tear is swelling, Drops, and then anew is swelling, Constant, in its crystal dwelling. All day long, each other ...
There late was One within whose subtle being,As light and wind within some delicate cloudThat fades amid the blue noon's ...
LIKE gleam of sunshine on the mountain's side,Fair, bright and beautiful, while all beside,Slope, cliff and pinnacle in shadow lieBeneath ...
'Hech! lass, but ye're canty and vogie!Wow! but your e'en look pauky and roguie!What war ye doing, Kate, down in ...
On the death of Captain Hiram A. Coats, my old schoolmate and friend.Dead? or is it a dream--Only the voice ...
There was a sound of revelry by night,And Belgium's capital had gathered thenHer beauty and her chivalry, and brightThe lamps ...
Beside my window day and night, Its tendrils reaching left and right, A morning glory grew; With blossoms covered, pink and white And deep, ...
Waked by Thy sun, again my thoughts ascendTo Thee, my heavenly Father! and they blendIn one devotional hymn of praise ...
LORD, open the door, for I falter,I faint in this stifled air;In dust and straitness I lose my breath;This life ...
The water, see it, leaps from the mountain's high brow, Like a roll of smooth silver, and laughingly nowSee, it skips, ...
It is the hither side, O Hope,And afternoon; our shadows slopeBackward along the mountain cope.The early morning was so sweet,We ...
1 I am a slave, both dumb and blind,2 Upon a journey dread;3 The iron hills lie far behind,4 The ...
DIVINEST art, the stars aboveWere fated on thy birth to shine;Oh, born of beauty and of love,What early poetry was ...
So hath he fallen, the Endymion of the air, And so lies down in slumber lapped for aye.Diana, passing, found his ...
Beside the open window she is lying, Through which comes softly in the balmy air,And fans her wasted cheek; but slowly ...
THE LADIES of St. James's Go swinging to the play; Their footmen run before them, With a "Stand by! Clear ...
ON the Heights of Great Endeavour,- Where Attainment looms forever,- Toiling upward, ceasing never, Climb the fateful Centuries: Up the difficult, dark places, Joy and ...
Oh! tell me ye shepherds, tell me I pray,Have you seen the fair Jessie pass by this way?You ne'er could ...
I saw her first abreast the Boston LightAt anchor; she had just come in, turned head,And sent her hawsers creaking, ...
We met--he was a stranger, His foot was free to roam;I was a simple maiden, Who had never left my home.He was ...
Lying in bed this morning, just a yearSince our first days, I was trying to assess -Against my natural caution ...
Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise,To scorn delights and live laborious days.Milton.I.O MOCKERY to dream of ...
The melody of autumn Is the only tune I know, And I sing it over and over Because it thrills me so; It stirs ...
O gentle vision in the dawn: My spirit over faint cool water glides, Child of the day, To thee; And thou art drawn By kindred ...
Stillness reigns—the vapours stealSlowly down the mountain's brow,And the evening shadows veilNature's face of brightness now;Flowers put off their glorious ...
There were ten of us there on the moonlit quay, And one on the for'ard hatch;No straighter mate to his mates ...
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