To Mrs. Henry Siddons (Frances Anne Kemble Poems)
O lady! thou, who in the olden time Hadst been the star of many a poet's dream! Thou, ...
O lady! thou, who in the olden time Hadst been the star of many a poet's dream! Thou, ...
THE royal feast was done; the King Sought some new sport to banish care, And to his jester cried: "Sir ...
She faded, O, she faded!And the roses fled her cheek,And her voice, that caroled like a bird's,Grew tremulous and weak!Her ...
There's ships that bring us cargoes, but not of our desire, Their ladings hail from all the ports 'twixt ...
My Savior, on the word of truthIn earnest hope I live;I ask for all the precious thingsThy boundless love can ...
Air — "In Lonely Wilds."Oh! lang the Ladye Grange did liveUpon St. Kilda's rock;But surely sorrow winna kill,Or else her ...
There—let thy hands be folded Awhile in sleep's repose;The patient hands that wearied not,But earnestly and nobly wrought ...
Though short thy span, God's unimpeach'd decrees,Which made that shorten'd span one long disease,Yet merciful in chastening, gave thee scopeFor ...
Now is the day when arrant fools Play outworn tricks on sober men!But, for the thoughtful soul that schools His ...
INDIFFERENCE! nymph of calm, unruffled brow, I hail thee, henceforth, as a welcome guest;Thy easy chain of flow'rets round ...
SPECTRAL, mysterious, flame-like thing Cleaving the western night,Waking from chrysalis-dream to flingOut of thy spirit's long chastening Far-flashing streams of ...
Time passing, and the memories of loveComing back to me, carissima, no more mockingly Than ever before; time passing, unslackening,Unhastening, ...
(For John Bunker) The roar of the world is in my ears. Thank God for the roar of the world! ...
I Jesús, Estrella, Esperanza, Mercy: Sails flashing to the wind like weapons, sharks following the moans the fever and the ...
That we would live out his law the commands of our creator the law our savior told us acting out ...
The prodigal, all of us a lesson for our times in this day and age, a chastening in the telling ...
At that moment, that instant, coming up out of the water, a new life, in the Spirit transformed, in that ...
There--let thy hands be folded Awhile in sleep's repose; The patient hands that wearied not, But earnestly and nobly wrought ...
Said I to Pain: "You would not dare Do ill to me." Said Pain: "Poor fool! Why should I care ...
Many a green isle needs must be In the deep wide sea of Misery, Or the mariner, worn and wan, ...
Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn From his displeasure; in whose look serene, When angry most he seemed and most ...
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