Vanity of Vanities (Michael Wigglesworth Poems)
A Song of EmptinessTo Fill up the Empty Pages FollowingVain, frail, short liv'd, and miserable Man,Learn what thou art when ...
A Song of EmptinessTo Fill up the Empty Pages FollowingVain, frail, short liv'd, and miserable Man,Learn what thou art when ...
ILike a gaunt, scraggly pine Which lifts its head above the mournful sandhills; And patiently, through dull years of bitter ...
Poor, little bird! the chase is ended;No longer hast thou cause for fear;Within these walls thou art befriended;No sportsmen can ...
Wouldst thou behold, not the ensnaring blaze Of earthly grandeur in its envious noon, But the calm majesty of other days Reposing, as ...
Would that I might say "Faith" and understand it.My faith is as a tenuous web-Ensnaring yet elusive;I may enmesh the ...
(ll. 322-336) The other fiends who waged so fierce a war with Godlay wrapped in flames. They suffer torment, hot ...
I hear the waters of some inlet nowCome lapping to the fringe of yonder wood,The storm-bent firs, and oaks along ...
MY young lord's the loverOf earth and sky above,Of youth's sway and youth's play,Of songs and flowers and love.Yet for ...
1901 Not in the camp his victory lies Or triumph in the market-place, Who is his Nation's sacrifice To turn ...
I Like a gaunt, scraggly pine Which lifts its head above the mournful sandhills; And patiently, through dull years of ...
MY lov'd, my honour'd, much respected friend! No mercenary bard his homage pays; With honest pride, I scorn each selfish ...
TRUE hearted was he, the sad swain o' the Yarrow, And fair are the maids on the banks of the ...
My tangoing seemed to delight her; With me it was love at first sight. I mentioned That I was a ...
I. THE DOLL UPON THE TOPMOST BOUGH This doll upon the topmost bough, This playmate-gift, in Christmas dress, Was taken ...
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