How Mary Grew (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
With wisdom far beyond her years,And graver than her wondering peers,So strong, so mild, combining stillThe tender heart and queenly ...
With wisdom far beyond her years,And graver than her wondering peers,So strong, so mild, combining stillThe tender heart and queenly ...
Far in the Further East the skilful craftsman Fashioned this fancy for the West's delight.This rose and azure Dragon, crouching softly Upon ...
Over the great windy waters, and over the clear-crested summits, Unto the sun and the sky, and unto the perfecter ...
SCENE--London, a Bookseller's Shop. Enter Author, smiling and rubbing his Hands. AUTHOR. Well, Slider!--and how d'ye go on with my ...
Ah! the pleasant time hath vanished, ere our wretched doubtingsbanished,All the graceful spirit-people, children of the earth and sea,Whom in ...
How big of breast our Mother Gaea laughedAt sight of her ...
I stood upon a crowded thoroughfare,Within a city's confines, where were metAll classes and conditions, and surveyed,From a secluded niche ...
When I am in New York, I like to drop around at night,To visit with my honest, genial friends, the ...
I'd not complain of Sister Jane, for she was good and kind,Combining with rare comeliness distinctive gifts of mind;Nay, I'll ...
"OH! bear me to the groves of palm, Where perfum'd airs diffuse their balm! And when the noon-tide beams invade, ...
To Thee, dear God of Mercy, both appeal,Who straightway sound the call to arms. Thou know'st;And that black spot in ...
[This Cantata was written for Prince Frederick of Gotha, and set to music by Winter, the Prince singing the part ...
Looking out into the backyard, over the shoulder of one of our cats, The stranger year without snow the warmth ...
When I am in New York, I like to drop around at night, To visit with my honest, genial friends, ...
I'd not complain of Sister Jane, for she was good and kind, Combining with rare comeliness distinctive gifts of mind; ...
I've tried the new moon tilted in the air Above a hazy tree-and-farmhouse cluster As you might try a jewel ...
What is left now that we've used the last excuse, what is left to justify excess. The rhetoric at best ...
1. The voice ended, they saw his pale visage Emerge from the darkness; his hand On the rock of eternity ...
1 COME closer to me; Push close, my lovers, and take the best I possess; Yield closer and closer, and ...
SLOW the limpid currents twining, Brawl along the lonely dell, 'Till in one wild stream combining, Nought its rapid course ...
In the storm-tossed Chilean sea lives the rosy conger, giant eel of snowy flesh. And in Chilean stewpots, along the ...
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