TO WILLIAM E. CHANNING (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
The pages of thy book I read, And as I closed each one, My heart, responding, ever said, "Servant of ...
The pages of thy book I read, And as I closed each one, My heart, responding, ever said, "Servant of ...
Valour and Innocence Have latterly gone hence To certain death by certain shame attended. Envy--ah! even to tears! -- The ...
"Behold there is a woman that hath a familiar spirit at En-dor." I Samuel, xxviii. 7. The road to En-dor ...
BOOK I Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from ...
I When I considered it too closely, when I wore it like an element and smelt it like water, Life ...
Out of the poisonous East, Over a continent of blight, Like a maleficent Influence released From the most squalid cellerage ...
I MARK the months in liveries dank and dry, The day-tides many-shaped and hued; I see the nightfall shades subtrude, ...
Here's one in whom Nature feared--faint at such vying - Eclipse while he lived, and decease at his dying. (Thomas ...
The door of the church, facing the morning sunshine a single ladybug gracing our window Walking, her body warming the ...
Eight straight ain't it great A nation in joy because of our boys Won in strong fashion with luck, pitching ...
Heart of France for a hundred years, Passionate, sensitive, proud, and strong, Quick to throb with her hopes and fears, ...
Busy old fool, unruly sun, Why dost thou thus, Through windows and through curtains, call on us? Must to thy ...
It sounded as if the Streets were running And then -- the Streets stood still -- Eclipse -- was all ...
If He dissolve -- then -- there is nothing -- more -- Eclipse -- at Midnight -- It was dark ...
A Saucer holds a Cup In sordid human Life But in a Squirrel's estimate A Saucer hold a Loaf. A ...
"Nature" is what we see -- The Hill -- the Afternoon -- Squirrel -- Eclipse -- the Bumble bee -- ...
The Whole of it came not at once -- 'Twas Murder by degrees -- A Thrust -- and then for ...
I'm "wife" -- I've finished that -- That other state -- I'm Czar -- I'm "Woman" now -- It's safer ...
White founts falling in the Courts of the sun, And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run; There ...
One in thy thousand statues we salute thee On all thy thousand thrones acclaim and claim Who walk in forest ...
All worldly shapes shall melt in gloom, The Sun himself must die, Before this mortal shall assume Its Immortality! I ...
Of Nelson and the North Sing the glorious day's renown, When to battle fierce came forth All the might of ...
Thou know'st my praise of nature most sincere, And that my raptures are not conjur'd up To serve occasions of ...
Velvet soft the night-star glowed Over the untrodden road, Through the giant glades of yew ...
Velvet soft the night-star glowed Over the untrodden road, Through the giant glades of yew ...
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
When she sleeps, her soul, I know, Goes a wanderer on the air, Wings where I may never go, Leaves ...
Now, when the moon slid under the cloud And the cold clear dark of starlight fell, He heard in his ...
'Draw three cards, and I will tell your future . . . Draw three cards, and lay them down, Rest ...
A big bud of moon hangs out of the twilight, Star-spiders spinning their thread Hang high suspended, withouten respite Watching ...
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