A Piccaninny (James Brunton Stephens Poems)
Lo by the "humpy" door a smockless Venus!Unblushing bronze, she shrinks not, having seen us,Though there is nought but short ...
Lo by the "humpy" door a smockless Venus!Unblushing bronze, she shrinks not, having seen us,Though there is nought but short ...
Isabelle has gold, and lands, Fate gave her a fair lot;Like the white lilies of the field Her soft hands toil not.I ...
Last night she came unto me, And kneeling by my side,Laid her head upon my bosom, My beautiful, my bride;My lost one, ...
LITTLE the present careth for the past,Too little-'tis not well!For careless ones we dwellBeneath the mighty shadow it has cast.Its ...
Blest is the man, who from the womb,To saintship him betakes,And when too soon his child shall come,A long confession ...
The ways of the world are full of haste and turmoil;I will sing of the tribe of the helpers who ...
Yes, for me, for me He carethWith a brother's tender care;Yes with me, with me He sharethEvery burden, every fear.Yes, ...
The twenty-fifth had come; Peru awoke;One cry for freedom from her green hills broke,From her wide plains and valleys; and ...
1.FROM thine, as then, the healing virtue goesInto our hearts—that is the Father's plan.From heart to heart it sinks, it ...
She was born in the season of fire, When a mantle of murkiness lay On the front of the crimson ...
HE.See the smoke-wreaths how they curl so lightly skywardFrom the ivied cottage nestled in the trees:Such a lovely spot-I really ...
Of whispering trees the tongues to hear,And sermons of the silent stone;To read in brooks the print so clearOf motion, ...
I WATCH the ships by town and leaWith sails full set glide out to sea,Till by the distant lighthouse rockThe ...
She sits upon her nest all day, Secure amid the toiling dinOf serpent belts that coil and play, And, moaning, ...
We who are gone from the lands that are dear to us, We who were merry in days that ...
You come too late;'Tis far on in November.The wind strikes bleakUpon the cheekThat careth rather to keep warm,(And where 's ...
See, what a wonderful garden is here,Planted and trimmed for my Little-Oh-Dear!Posies so gaudy and grass of such brown -Search ...
See, what a wonderful garden is here, Planted and trimmed for my Little-Oh-Dear! Posies so gaudy and grass of such ...
Methinks in Him there dwells alway A sea of laughter very deep, Where the leviathans leap, And little children play, ...
"Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thyself." (David, Psalms 50.21) ['Will sprawl, now that the heat ...
© 2020 Inspirational Stories