An Inventor (Augusta Davies Webster Poems)
Not yet! I thought this time 'twas done at last, the workings perfected, the life in it; and there's the ...
Not yet! I thought this time 'twas done at last, the workings perfected, the life in it; and there's the ...
1.SO shall abundant entrance me be givenInto the truth, my life's inheritance.Lo! as the sun shoots straight from out his ...
Fire! Fire! Fire! the cry rang out on the night air,The roving winds caught it up, and the very heavens ...
AFTER A CHARITY SERMON. The rich are going to their homes, The clouds of dust arise;For rich men always ...
IMaimed, beggared, grey; seeking an alms; with nodOf palsy doing task of thanks for bread;Upon the stature of a God,He ...
In good time, when I am ready, Wondrous schemes shall I unfold;But we must be cautious, steady, Cleaving to the ...
Emelie, that fayrer was to seeneThan is the lilye on hys stalke grene.....Uprose the sun and uprose Emelie.DOST thou thus ...
IWe cannot choose our sorrows. One there wasWho, reverent of soul, and strong with trust,Cried, 'God, though Thou shouldst bow ...
Come, pass about the bowl to me, A health to our distress?d king! Though we're in hold, let cups go ...
IYou who are wise today,What of your knowledge when life's little playIs ended, and the curtain rustles down--What of your ...
Who travels alone with his eye on the heights,Though he laughs in the daytime, oft weeps through the nights;For courage ...
"LET me no more a mendicant Without the gate Of the world's kingly palace wait; Morning is spent, The sentinels ...
I bend and kiss thee; 'tis a little thing; Thousands have passed between us; and, God grant, That nectarous sip ...
How can I think, or edge my thoughts to action,When the miserly press of each day's needAches to a narrowness ...
It would never be Common -- more -- I said -- Difference -- had begun -- Many a bitterness -- ...
The wind blew out from Bergen, from the dawning to the day There was a wreck of trees, a fall ...
I He wakes in darkness. All around are sounds of stones shifting, locks unlocking. As if some one had lifted ...
I strolled up old Bonanza, where I staked in ninety-eight, A-purpose to revisit the old claim. I kept thinking mighty ...
Ah, wherefore with infection should he live, And with his presence grace impiety, That sin by him advantage should achieve, ...
For Leonard Baskin To his house the bodiless Come to barter endlessly Vision, wisdom, for bodies Palpable as his, and ...
Am I failing ? For no longer can I cast A glory round about this head of gold. Glory she ...
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