Leaving the Matter Open: A Tale By Homer Wilbur, A.M. (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Two brothers once, an ill-matched pair,Together dwelt (no matter where),To whom an Uncle Sam, or some one,Had left a house ...
Two brothers once, an ill-matched pair,Together dwelt (no matter where),To whom an Uncle Sam, or some one,Had left a house ...
But mortal manWas then far hardier in the old champaign,As well he should be, since a hardier earthHad him begotten; ...
I.O fairest flower no sooner blown but blasted,Soft silken Primrose fading timeless lie,Summers chief honour if thou hadst outlastedBleak winters ...
'T was eve; and Mount Conto Reflected in night The sunbeams that fled With the monarch of light; As great souls and noble Reflect evermore The ...
They are all gone, but one.—A daughter and a sonWere, from my parents, early taken away;And my own childhood's joyWas ...
When I go home, green, green will glow the grass,Whereon the flight of sun and cloud will pass;Long lines of ...
For Summer I would paint a married pair Sitting in close embraces, while a band Of children kneel before them hand in ...
Well, I dreamt it was a hot day, the territorialsWere out on melting asphalt under the howitzers,The brass music bounced ...
They never departedthe garden of embraces.And round the red roseof kisses they travelled.Hurricanes wantedto part them with rancour.And sharp axes,and ...
Friend whom I never saw, yet dearest friend, Be with me travelling on the byeway now ...
THE fall of his lord he was fain to requitein after days; and to Eadgils he provedfriend to the friendless, ...
Little, perhaps, thou valuest verse of mine- Little hast read of what my hand has wrought,Yet I ...
Love: what is love;That fascinating power, divine,Which fills the heart with thoughts sublime,Which causes men to tear their hair,Which brings ...
Hail! ye heroes who yet stand!Hail the martyr of our land!Hail him who for his country delved!Him who the great ...
OUTSIDE the hedge of rosesThat walls my garden round,And many a flower encloses,Lies fresh unfurrowed ground.I have not delved nor ...
There once was a man whom the gods didn't love, And a disagreeable man was he. He loathed his neighbours, ...
Tempora labuntur, tacitisque senescimus annis, Et fugiunt freno non remorante dies. Ovid, Fastorum, Lib. vi. "O C?sar, we who are ...
When it was autumn in Eden and chestnuts held golden leaves against dimming light , Eve touched her toes on ...
In the outskirts of the village On the river's winding shores Stand the Occidental plane-trees, Stand the ancient sycamores. One ...
Worms finer for fishing you couldn't be wishing; I delved them dismayed from the velvety sod; The rich loam upturning ...
I O fairest flower no sooner blown but blasted, Soft silken Primrose fading timelesslie, Summers chief honour if thou hadst ...
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