The Building of the Ship (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
"Build me straight, O worthy Master! Stanch and strong, a goodly vessel, That shall laugh at all disaster, And with ...
"Build me straight, O worthy Master! Stanch and strong, a goodly vessel, That shall laugh at all disaster, And with ...
Shiny record albums scattered over the living room floor, reflecting light from the lamp, sharp reflections that hurt my eyes ...
There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away ...
Full many a dreary hour have I past, My brain bewildered, and my mind o'ercast With heaviness; in seasons when ...
A watched pot, beginning to boil growing bubbles in the dimples the Teflon surface called to the ball, to dance, ...
Up in the attic where I slept When I was a boy, a little boy, In through the lattice the ...
When baby wakes of mornings, Then it's wake, ye people all! For another day Of song and play Has come ...
Daphne's Answer to Sylvia, declaring she should esteem all as Enemies, who should talk to her of LOVE. THEN, to ...
'Twas the night before Christmas, when all thro' the house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The ...
When Night is almost done -- And Sunrise grows so near That we can touch the Spaces -- It's time ...
These -- saw Visions -- Latch them softly -- These -- held Dimples -- Smooth them slow -- This -- ...
I meant to have but modest needs -- Such as Content -- and Heaven -- Within my income -- these ...
Her smile was shaped like other smiles -- The Dimples ran along -- And still it hurt you, as some ...
I felt my life with both my hands To see if it was there -- I held my spirit to ...
The only Ghost I ever saw Was dressed in Mechlin -- so -- He wore no sandal on his foot ...
The great millennium is at hand. Redder apples grow on the tree. A saxophone is in ev'ry band. Brandy no ...
I That fawn-skin-dappled hair of hers, And the blue eye Dear and dewy, And that infantine fresh air of hers! ...
MORNING and evening Maids heard the goblins cry: "Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy: Apples and quinces, ...
If Mary had known When she held her Babe's hands in her own Little hands that were tender and white ...
Did you know that Evian spelled backwards is naive? I myself was unaware of this fact until last Tuesday night ...
"Twas the night before Christmas, when all thro' the house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The ...
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