Written For A Lady’s Commonplace- (John Gardiner Calkins Brainard Poems)
AH! who can imagine what plague and what bothersHe feels, who sits down to write verses for others!His pen must ...
AH! who can imagine what plague and what bothersHe feels, who sits down to write verses for others!His pen must ...
How memory cuts away the years,And how clean the picture comesOf autumn days, brisk and busy;Charged with keen sunshine.And you, ...
SWEET Cumbrian Bard, esteem'd and honour'd long,In youth belov'd respected in thy age,Thine is each title to mankind endear'd,The social ...
IN the nonage of the year,When anemones appear,And the buffets of the breeze are soft as silk,When each sparrow spars ...
If to deny that God hath cursed the child, And doomed it to perdition—to deny That He, who sits and reigns above ...
I will bring fire to thee.Euripides.-'Androm'.'Eiros'.Why do you call me Eiros?'Charmion'.So henceforward will you always be called. You must forget,too, ...
PART THE FIRST.IN THELMON'S breast contending passions rise, While, with resentment stung, he proudly flies; The harmonist divine, to madness ...
COME , then, explore with me each winding glen,Far from the noisy haunts of busy men;Let us with stedfast eye ...
I sit, unconscious of all things around,And look into my soul. Within it farThere is an image, dim and indistinct.Of ...
I stood upon a crowded thoroughfare,Within a city's confines, where were metAll classes and conditions, and surveyed,From a secluded niche ...
A family of Fairies lived under the ground, And search as they might no place co'd be found, Where a ...
ON READING ONE UPON THE SAME SUBJECT BY PROFESSORRICHARDSON OF GLASGOW. WHAT voice awakes the soul-afflicting themeThat oft with ...
FLUSH'D, from my restless pillow I arose, To calm my thoughts, sad stranger to repose; Wandering through woods, by night's ...
She wore a sweet pink bonnet, The sweetest ever known: And as I gazed upon it, My heart ...
THE eve descends with radiant streaks, Sweetly serene and grandly gay, While western tinges flush the cheeks, And insects 'mid ...
You women of today who fear so muchThe women of the future, showing howThe dangers of her course are such ...
A word out of season Of vapid unreasonMay seem mere political twaddle at best; But this thing needs abatement ...
You weren't well or really ill yet either; just a little tired, your handsomeness tinged by grief or anticipation, which ...
When Yankies, skill'd in martial rule, First put the British troops to school; Instructed them in warlike trade, And new ...
YEARS of the modern! years of the unperform'd! Your horizon rises-I see it parting away for more august dramas; I ...
Husbands are things that wives have to get used to putting up with. And with whom they breakfast with and ...
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