Lady button-eyes (Eugene Field Poem)
When the busy day is done, And my weary little one Rocketh gently to and fro; When the night winds ...
When the busy day is done, And my weary little one Rocketh gently to and fro; When the night winds ...
To-day, fair Thisbe, winsome girl! Strays o'er the meads where daisies blow, Or, ling'ring where the brooklets purl, Laves in ...
WHAT various ways in which a thing is told Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold; In stories we invention ...
OFT have I seen in wedlock with surprise, That most forgot from which true bliss would rise When marriage for ...
NOW spent the alter'd King, in am'rous Cares, The Hours of sacred Hymns and solemn Pray'rs: In vain the Alter ...
VAIN Love, why do'st thou boast of Wings, That cannot help thee to retire! When such quick Flames Suspicion brings, ...
I stay; But it isn't as if There wasn't always Hudson's Bay And the fur trade, A small skiff And ...
The south-wind brings Life, sunshine, and desire, And on every mount and meadow Breathes aromatic fire, But over the dead ...
Venus, when her son was lost, Cried him up and down the coast, In hamlets, palaces, and parks, And told ...
(The Dry Salvages-presumably les trois sauvages-is a small group of rocks, with a beacon, off the N.E. coast of Cape ...
My stepdaughter and I circle round and round. You see, I like the music loud, the speakers throbbing, jam-packing the ...
A dear old couple my grandparents were, And kind to all dumb things; they saw in Heaven The lamb that ...
I PRELUDE Daughter of Psyche, pledge of that last night When, pierced with pain and bitter-sweet delight, She knew her ...
June 22, 1611 THE SHALLOP ON HUDSON BAY One sail in sight upon the lonely sea And only one, God ...
Over and back, the long waves crawl and track the sand with foam; night darkens, and the sea takes on ...
I should have been too glad, I see -- Too lifted -- for the scant degree Of Life's penurious Round ...
Shells from the Coast mistaking -- I cherished them for All -- Happening in After Ages To entertain a Pearl ...
'Twas such a little -- little boat That toddled down the bay! 'Twas such a gallant -- gallant sea That ...
'Twas such a little -- little boat That toddled down the bay! 'Twas such a gallant -- gallant sea That ...
You may have heard a dumb-ass claim that Katrina, a hurricane, is to blame for current stress upon our fiscal ...
We are the vagabonds of time, And rove the yellow autumn days, When all the roads are gray with rime ...
Recite the loves of Narva and Mored The priest of Chalma's triple idol said. High from the ground the youthful ...
Oh that those lips had language! Life has pass'd With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips ...
Obscurest night involv'd the sky, Th' Atlantic billows roar'd, When such a destin'd wretch as I, Wash'd headlong from on ...
There are certain things -a spider, a ghost, The income-tax, gout, an umbrella for three - That I hate, but ...
There are certain things--as, a spider, a ghost, The income-tax, gout, an umbrella for three-- That I hate, but the ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
My whole world is all you refuse: a black light, angelic and cold on the path to the orchard, fox-runs ...
With one consuming roar along the shingle The long wave claws and rakes the pebbles down To where its backwash ...
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