Never Had A Chance (Hattie Howard Poems)
Fresh from piano, school, and books, A happy girl with rosy looks Young Plowman wooed and won; despite Her pretty, pouting prejudice, Her deep ...
Fresh from piano, school, and books, A happy girl with rosy looks Young Plowman wooed and won; despite Her pretty, pouting prejudice, Her deep ...
Though Wolues against the siluer Moon do bark,they blemish not her brightnes, nor the spightOf bauling Curres, (which she disdains ...
Is it because Spring now is comeThat my heart leaps in its bed of dust?Is it with sorrow or strange ...
To his much respected friends, the Society of Florists. But some there be that are so pure and sage, That they doe ...
LOUISATOEMMA. APRIL 25th, 1781. OH! my lov'd EMMA , I have much ...
LEAVE now our streets, and in yon plain beholdThose pleasant Seats for the reduced and old;A merchant's gift, whose wife ...
SIR OSMOND'S youth in camps was bred,And manly sports still pleas'd his age:Beneath his spear the wolf had bled;His arm ...
Come, Lord, my head doth burn, my heart is sick, While thou dost ever, ever stay:Thy long deferrings ...
IAn English heart, my commandant,A soldier's eye you have, awakeTo right and left; with looks askantOn bulwarks not of adamant,Where ...
LXXMy lady's senses are so pure and fine, She takes small pleasure in the close embrace That love and nature ...
Like to an aged poet who reviews An early volume, once his secret pride, With a distaste that scarcely can ...
UPON a noon I pilgrimed through A pasture, mile by mile, Unto the place where I last saw My dead ...
Then a ploughman said, "Speak to us of Work." And he answered, saying: You work that you may keep pace ...
HOW weak is man! how changeable his mind! His promises are naught, too oft we find; I vowed (I hope ...
IF these gay tales give pleasure to the FAIR, The honour's great conferred, I'm well aware; Yet, why suppose the ...
The sort of girl I like to see Smiles down from her great height at me. She stands in strong, ...
1.1 Lo now! four other acts upon the stage, 1.2 Childhood, and Youth, the Manly, and Old-age. 1.3 The first: ...
That Tom was poor was sure a pity, Such guts for learning had the lad; He took to Greek like ...
I burned my fingers on the stove And wept with bitterness; But poor old Auntie Maggie strove To comfort my ...
Of all the boys with whom I fought In Africa and Sicily, Bill was the bravest of the lot In ...
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...
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