The Fire-side (Nathaniel Cotton Poems)
Dear Chloe, while the busy crowd,The vain, the wealthy, and the proud,In folly's maze advance;Tho' singularity and prideBe call'd our ...
Dear Chloe, while the busy crowd,The vain, the wealthy, and the proud,In folly's maze advance;Tho' singularity and prideBe call'd our ...
You may talk of Columbus's sailingAcross the Atlantical SeaBut he never tried to go railingFrom Ennis as far as KilkeeYou ...
As thus the patient dam assiduous sits,Not to be tempted from her tender task,Or by sharp hunger, or by smooth ...
1.SACRED Retirement! friend to ev'ry muse,Come, aid my pen, a flow'ry wreath to weave,Gay fancy, deck it with thy brightest ...
LINES WRITTEN AFTER A SUMMER DAY'S EXCURSION.Fair Nature's priestesses! to whom,In hieroglyph of bud and bloom,Her mysteries are told;Who, wise ...
They let the children out of school too early.I left the Christmas shopping till too late.Each day we had a ...
In bloom gemm'd depths, where Sylvan branches meetAbove dim paths, that thread a still retreat;Where light on tip-toe shy, steals ...
BRITANNIA.Wretched Britannia! Hapless and undone! How have my Follies call'd this Vengeance down, And anger'd Heav'n to so severe a ...
SHEPHERD Not the blue-fountained Florida hotel, Bell-capped, bellevued, straight-jacketed and decked With chromium palms and a fromage of moon, Not ...
THE night was thick and hazy When the 'Piccadilly Daisy' Carried down the crew and captain in the ...
If the excursion train to PeoriaHad just been wrecked, I might have escaped with my life —Certainly I should have ...
I met a King this afternoon! He had not on a Crown indeed, A little Palmleaf Hat was all, And ...
High dormers are rising So sharp and surprising, And ponticum edges The driveways of gravel; Stone houses from ledges Look ...
I. You're my friend: I was the man the Duke spoke to; I helped the Duchess to cast off his ...
'TWAS 1 in that place o' Scotland's isle, That bears the name o' auld King Coil, Upon a bonie day ...
AMERICA always! Always our own feuillage! Always Florida's green peninsula! Always the priceless delta of Louisiana! Always the cotton-fields of ...
1 GIVE me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling; Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red ...
NOTE.-The following imaginary dialogue between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, which is not based upon any specific incident in American ...
'Twas in scientific circles That the great Professor Brown Had a world-wide reputation As a writer of renown. He had ...
High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind, Or where the ...
The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he a while Thought him still speaking, ...
If the excursion train to Peoria Had just been wrecked, I might have escaped with my life -- Certainly I ...
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