The Shattered Dream (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
I WAS somewhere off in Europe spending money like a king, Owned a yacht like J. P. Morgan's, when the ...
I WAS somewhere off in Europe spending money like a king, Owned a yacht like J. P. Morgan's, when the ...
Old and battered now, it restsWith the spinning wheel and chests,In the solitude and gloomOf the dusty attic room;Tied around ...
Half a score o' sailormen that want to sail once more,Cruising round the waterside with the Peter at the fore!Half ...
Haul down the flag, and put the guns ashore:Poor boat, they do not need you any more.But never mind. Here ...
137Flowers - Well - if anybodyCan the ecstasy define -Half a transport - half a trouble -With which flowers humble ...
I've paid for your sickest fancies; I've humoured your crackedest whim -- Dick, it's your daddy, dying; you've got to ...
I'll tell you the story of Jonah, A really remarkable tale; A peaceful and humdrum existence he had Until one ...
Flowers -- Well -- if anybody Can the ecstasy define -- Half a transport -- half a trouble -- With ...
"Heaven" -- is what I cannot reach! The Apple on the Tree -- Provided it do hopeless -- hang -- ...
I saw a brilliant angelfish whose tail and fins shimmered yellow until it turned and silver spread like an undercoat ...
This harbour was made by art and force. And called Kingstown and afterwards Dun Laoghaire. And holds the sea behind ...
Cruising these residential Sunday streets in dry August sunlight: what offends us is the sanities: the houses in pedantic rows, ...
Let us rest ourselves a bit! Worry?-- wave your hand to it -- Kiss your finger-tips and smile It farewell ...
NOW finale to the shore! Now, land and life, finale, and farewell! Now Voyager depart! (much, much for thee is ...
In the dark and damp of the alley cold, Lay the Christmas tree that hadn't been sold; By a shopman ...
Flaubert wanted to write a novel About nothing. It was to have no subject And be sustained upon the style ...
This morning, between two branches of a tree Beside the door, epeira once again Has spun and signed his tapestry ...
Ye sons of Mars, come list to me, And I will relate to ye A great and heroic naval fight, ...
'Twas on a Sunday morning, and in the year of 1888, The steamer "Saxmundham," laden with coal and coke for ...
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