The Maid’s Alarm (Oscar Fay Adams Poems)
Argument:Little Miss MuffetSat on a tuffet,Eating of curds and whey.There came a black spider,Which sat down beside her,And frightened Miss ...
Argument:Little Miss MuffetSat on a tuffet,Eating of curds and whey.There came a black spider,Which sat down beside her,And frightened Miss ...
THE Rabbi Nathan two-score years and tenWalked blameless through the evil world, and then,Just as the almond blossomed in his ...
It was not that I lived a life of ease, Quiet, secure, apart from every care;For on the darkest of my ...
On the nineteenth day of the tenth month of the second year of Ta-li (15 November 767), in the residence ...
The Khan came from Bokhara townTo Hamza, santon of renown."My head is sick, my hands are weak;Thy help, O holy ...
On Tabor's height a glory came,And, shrined in clouds of lambent flame,The awestruck, hushed disciples sawChrist and the prophets of ...
The summer twilight gently yieldsTo star-sown luminous night, and closeThe flowers in these Flemish FieldsAre folded, still the leaves repose;But, ...
AN APOSTROPHE TO THE MOON.O, silvery moon, fair mistress of the night,Thou mellow, ever vaccilating orb,How many eons of unmeasured ...
On Cape Misenum shone a palace fair Among the laurels by the summer sea; Long colonnades, and wondrous artistry, And ...
(PRESIDIO DE SAN FRANCISCO, 1800)ILooking seaward, o'er the sand-hills stands the fortress, old and quaint,By the San Francisco friars lifted ...
September: 1643Sweet air and fresh; glades yet unsear'd by handOf Midas-finger'd Autumn, massy-green;Bird-haunted nooks between,Where feathery ferns, a fairy palmglove, ...
Spirit of Dreams! When many a toilsome heightShut paradise from exiled Adam's sight,Two wedded powers were given thenceforth to strayOn ...
On the nineteenth day of the tenth month of the second year of Ta-li (15 November 767), in the residence ...
I like that old, kind legendNot found in Holy Writ,And wish that John or MatthewHad made Bible out of it.But ...
Could Juno's self more sovereign presence wearThan thou, 'mid other ladies throned in grace?-Or Pallas, when thou bend'st with soul-stilled ...
Our Fathers in a wondrous age, Ere yet the Earth was small, Ensured to us a heritage, And doubted not ...
Humbled by the grace of Christ his sacrifice going to the cross for me setting me free from death Wanting ...
Needing to stop to truly look to ponder the artistry the complexity in amazement at the master's work Awestruck by ...
Hallowed be your name, our Lord, our God, holy, feared, awestruck, worthy of respect, of praise falling at your feet, ...
All actors look for them-the defining moments When what a character does is what he is. The script may say, ...
A little mousey man he was With board, and chalk in hand; And millions were awestruck because They couldn't understand. ...
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