Barn Owl (Gwen Harwood Poems)
Daybreak: the household slept.I rose, blessed by the sun.A horny fiend, I creptout with my father's gun.Let him dream of ...
Daybreak: the household slept.I rose, blessed by the sun.A horny fiend, I creptout with my father's gun.Let him dream of ...
Man in the wombe, is but a Zoophyte, There nourish'd like a plant: But when Hee is produc'd to the day-light, Disclos'd from ...
'Tis evening: in the silent west,The rosy hues of day--light fade,And here I lay me down to rest,Beneath your venerable ...
O, de light-bugs glimmer down de lane, Merlindy! Merlindy!O, de whip'-will callin' notes ur pain — Merlindy, O, Merlindy!O, honey lub, my ...
"THOU, bright Futurity! whose prospect beams, In dawning radiance on our day-light dreams; Whose lambent meteors and ethereal forms Gild ...
"WHENCE are those tranquil joys, in mercy giv'n, To light the wilderness with beams of Heav'n? To sooth our cares, ...
AT last they met, once, twice, and many times, Until she knew the secret of his being, That essence which ...
Three long days o'er the barren steppe Where the earth lay dead in her winding-sheet She measured the hours from ...
God prosper long our noble king,Our liffes and safetyes all;A woefull hunting once there didIn Chevy-Chace befall.To drive the deere ...
FROM St. Peter's tower the bell had toll'd,For the Carmelite Monks to pray,And the holy priest by the altar kneel'dOn ...
NAY, Sister, nay,but say not so,For o'er my memory even nowThere comes, as if it were a dream,A train indeed ...
After all pleasures as I rid one day, My horse and I, both tir'd, bodie and minde, With ...
HAIL! sable queen of soft repose,Who bid'st the weary eyelids close,To Sleep's profoundest sway resign'd;Or, still more pleasing to the ...
Where are they all departed, The loved ones of my youth, Those emblems white of purity, Sweet innocence ...
As smoke from a volcano soars in the air, The soul of man discontent mounts from a sigh, Exhaled as ...
HOW gently this evening the ripples breakOn the pebbles beneath the trees,With a music as low as the full leaves ...
"OH, let's go up the hill and scare ourselves, As reckless as the best of them to-night, By setting fire ...
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
Hark! 'tis the twanging horn! O'er yonder bridge, That with its wearisome but needful length Bestrides the wintry flood, in ...
1 THE last sunbeam Lightly falls from the finish'd Sabbath, On the pavement here-and there beyond, it is looking, Down ...
Jack would laugh an' joke all day; Never saw a lad so gay; Singin' like a medder lark, Loaded to ...
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