Stripped Lilacs (Patience Worth Poems)
I dinna believe I would have recalledWhen the lilacs had browned,For their purple plumes had noddedBlithesomely upon the sunlit airs.I ...
I dinna believe I would have recalledWhen the lilacs had browned,For their purple plumes had noddedBlithesomely upon the sunlit airs.I ...
A truce with cares and labours! I have cried;And traced the sweet winds to the barley field,To watch the strong ...
On the morning of May,Ere the children had entered my gateWith their wreaths and mechanical lay,A metal ding-dong of the ...
Once on a time there was a fagot-maker, And he had seven sons. Who could be aught but ...
"A miller had a daughter,And lovely, too, she was;Her step was light, her smile was bright,Her eyes were gray as ...
I.I stood in an ancient gardenWith high red walls around;Over them grey and green lichensIn shadowy arabesque wound.The topmost climbing ...
YOU can dunnage casks o' tallow; you can handle hides an' horn; You can carry frozen mutton; you can lumber ...
In a sailormen's restaurant Rotherhithe way,Where the din of the docksides is loud all the day,And the breezes come bringing ...
Some are eager to be famous, some are striving to be great, Some are toiling to be leaders of ...
I.MorningTHE morning sun has pierced the mist,And beach and cliff and ocean kissed.Blue as the lapis-lazuliThe sea reflects the azure ...
"O once in my saddle I used to go dashing, O once in my saddle I used to be gay! ...
IThe first rose on my rose-tree Budded, bloomed, and shattered, During sad days when to me Nothing mattered. Grief of ...
WHY is it that the poet tells So little of the sense of smell? These are the odors I love ...
When I was up the country in the rough and early days, I used to work along ov Jimmy Nowlett's ...
'My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.' Arthur ...
Look, look, master, here comes two religious caterpillars. The Jew of Malta. POLYPHILOPROGENITIVE The sapient sutlers of the Lord Drift ...
For months on end the pumpkins lay at peace, their parent vines had all but browned and died although a ...
In our dainty little kitchen, Where my aproned wife is queen Over all the tin-pan people, In a realm exceeding ...
Of all the men I ever knew The tinkingest was Uncle Jim; If there were any chores to do We ...
I The first rose on my rose-tree Budded, bloomed, and shattered, During sad days when to me Nothing mattered. Grief ...
In Havana in 1948 I ate fried dog believing it was Peking duck. Later, in Tampa I bunked with an ...
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