Mothers And Wives (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
Mothers and wives, 'tis the call to armsThat the bugler yonder prepares to sound;We stand on the brink of war's ...
Mothers and wives, 'tis the call to armsThat the bugler yonder prepares to sound;We stand on the brink of war's ...
" Somebody said that it couldn't be done, But, he with a chuckle replied That ""maybe it couldn't,"" but he ...
Flushed with the hope of high desire, He buckled on his sword,To dare the rampart ranged with fire, Or where ...
Thousands of stars twinkle in the gentle sky.The landscape glows. From the distant meadowMute marching men slowly come closer.Only once ...
Star, that gives a gracious dole, What am I to choose?Oh, will it be a shriven soul, Or little buckled ...
Have at you, you Devils! My back's to this tree, For you're nothing so nice That the hind-side of me ...
In the empty field, in the morning, the body waits to be claimed. The spirit sits beside it, on a ...
A quiet ride in the car after the kites were back in the trunk, all buckled in and ready to ...
The reticent volcano keeps His never slumbering plan -- Confided are his projects pink To no precarious man. If nature ...
Somebody said that it couldn't be done, But he with a chuckle replied That "maybe it couldn't," but he would ...
I meditate upon a swallow's flight, Upon a aged woman and her house, A sycamore and lime-tree lost in night ...
When I step off that doorstep, still in need of the paint with which I intend to lick it, and ...
THE KINGDOM OF MY HEART 1 The halcyon settled on the Aire of our days Kingfisher-blue it broke my heart ...
LIKE souls that balance joy and pain, With tears and smiles from heaven again The maiden Spring upon the plain ...
Dear parents, I forgive you my life, Begotten in a drab town, The intention was good; Passing the street now, ...
In his tenth July some instinct taught him to arm the waiting wave, a giant where its mouth hung open. ...
"I'm going, Billy, old fellow. Hist, lad! Don't make any noise. There's Boches to beat all creation, the pitch of ...
The day that I was christened- It's a hundred years, and more!- A hag came and listened At the white ...
"And if he's gone away," said she, "Good riddance, if you're asking me. I'm not a one to lie awake ...
Gumtree in the city street, Hard bitumen around your feet, Rather you should be In the cool world of leafy ...
Wheeling them in, the yard gate at half-mast with its ticking hinge, the tin bucket with a hairnet of webs, ...
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