The Humming-Bird (Harriet Monroe Poems)
What a boom! boom!Sounds among the honeysuckles!Saying, "Room! room!Hold your breath and mind your knuckles!"And a fairy birdling brightFlits like ...
What a boom! boom!Sounds among the honeysuckles!Saying, "Room! room!Hold your breath and mind your knuckles!"And a fairy birdling brightFlits like ...
Strum, strum!Ah, wee one,Croon unto the tendril tipped with sungilt,Nodding thee from o'er the doorsill there.Strum, strum!My wheel shall sing ...
Unhappy craft of Daedalus reborn,That liest prone with white wings torn,And, like some giant prehistoric bird, with throb-bing soundDoest beat ...
AH, me! for evermore, for evermoreThese human hearts of ours must yearn and sigh,While down the dells and up the ...
I entered my parlor one bright summer morn,My vases with flowers, sweet flowers to adorn.In arranging the curtains, there fell ...
Seek ye the fairest lily of the field, The fairest lotus that in lakelet lies,The fairest rose that ever morn revealed,And ...
Thank God for pleasant weather! Chant it, merry rills!And clap your hands together, Ye exulting hills!Thank Him, teeming valley! Thank Him, fruitful plain!For ...
ALONG the country roadside, stone on stone,Past waving grain-field, and near broken stile,The walls stretch onward, an uneven pile,With rankling ...
Died at Hartford, Nov. 11th, 1839, aged 4 years and 6 months.The garner'd Jewel of our heart, The Darling of our ...
WAS there another Spring than this? I half remember, through the haze Of glimmering nights and golden days, A broken-pinioned birdling's note, An angry ...
THE BREWING OF BEER.Now we sing the wondrous legends,Songs of wedding-feasts and dances,Sing the melodies of wedlock,Sing the songs of ...
Oh what is fame! a flower that dies at eve, A golden mist that subtle fancies weave, An unknown star ...
WAINAMOINEN AND YOUKAHAINEN.Wainamoinen, ancient minstrel,Passed his years in full contentment,On the meadows of Wainola,On the plains of Kalevala,Singing ever wondrous ...
LEMMINKAINEN'S RESTORATION.Lemminkainen's aged motherAnxious roams about the islands,Anxious wonders in her chambers,What the fate of Lemminkainen,Why her son so long ...
One eve she stood upon a lonely lea And watched the deep'ning shadows grim That threw their forms athwart the ...
ORIGIN OF IRON.Wainamoinen, thus encouraged,Quickly rises in his snow-sledge,Asking no one for assistance,Straightway hastens to the cottage,Takes a seat within ...
Withered with years and broken by Time's play I still do live, who only seek to lay My harp aside ...
"Ere last year's moon had left the sky, A birdling sought my Indian nest, And folded, O, so lovingly, ...
The stars are twinkling in the skies, The earth is lost in slumbers deep;So hush, my sweet, and close thine ...
It did not surprise me -- So I said -- or thought -- She will stir her pinions And the ...
Soar not too high, O bird of Hope! Because the skies are fair; The tempest may come on apace And ...
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