Why Life Is Sweet (Lucy Larcom Poems)
BECAUSE it cometh up, a heavenly flower,Out of the earth, divinely sown therein,To gather grace from shadow and from shower,And ...
BECAUSE it cometh up, a heavenly flower,Out of the earth, divinely sown therein,To gather grace from shadow and from shower,And ...
Mightiest type of the human,Praised be again and again,Broad-breasted mother of woman;Giant-limbed mother of men.Mother majestic and splendid,Mother of glories ...
All things are full of God. Thus spokeWise Thales in the daysWhen subtle Greece to thought awokeAnd soared in lofty ...
To the far-reachingHeavens has goneMy prince, soUnaware of passing days and nightsWill I love him still. (Kakinomoto no Asomi Hitomaro)
Bring the wine-cup, companions! and let it go round! At its bottom good humor and mirth will be found; Bring ...
August 6th , 1875.Harp of my native landThat lived anew 'neath Carolan's master hand;Harp on whose electric chords,The minstrel Moore's ...
ACT IV.SCENE I. The City Hall at Nordhausen. Deputies and Burghers assembling. To the right, at a table near the ...
GERTRUDE.IN clouds drew on the evening's close, Which cross the west in ranges stood, As pensive GERTRUDE sought the wood, ...
The Lady Lorraine was sweet and fair; The Lady Lorraine was young; She had wonderful eyes and glorious hair, And ...
A Hundred years - and she had sat, a queenSheltering her children, opening wide her gatesTo all the inflowing tribes ...
There's a moral in this: tho' I own that the preaching Of moral and maxim in season and outGrows stale; ...
What's in a glass of wine?There, set the glass where I can look within.Now listen to me, friend, while I ...
As I stand by the cross on the lone mountain's crest, Looking over the ultimate sea,In the gloom of ...
Deep trust in God-for that I still have sought Through all the grim doubts that bemock the ...
CCIILove stirs the pulses of my deeper thought, Muses on things that were and things to be, Weaves for himself ...
O radiant sun of light,A soul-inspiring sight.I Unrivalled king of kings,Thy praise through ages rings.Thou'rt wisest of the wise,Exalted to ...
Groping back to bed after a piss I part the thick curtains, and am startled by The rapid clouds, the ...
Theodore Roosevelt "The interpreter then called for a man-servant of his, one Great-Heart."--Bunyan's' Pilgrim's Process Concerning brave Captains Our age ...
Because I was content with these poor fields, Low open meads, slender and sluggish streams, And found a home in ...
(PETER RONSARD _loquitur_.) ``Heigho!'' yawned one day King Francis, ``Distance all value enhances! ``When a man's busy, why, leisure ``Strikes ...
Columbia, fair queen in your glory! Columbia, the pride of the earth! We crown you with song- wreath and story; ...
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