The Cocoa-Tree (Charles Warren Stoddard Poems)
"CAST on the water by a careless hand, Day after day the winds persuaded me: Onward I drifted ...
"CAST on the water by a careless hand, Day after day the winds persuaded me: Onward I drifted ...
Sweet was the scene. The spreading dolichos Extended far, down to the valley's depths, With leaves luxuriant. The orioles Fluttered ...
Old Yew, which graspest at the stones That name the under-lying dead, Thy fibres ...
Clotho, Lachesis, Atropos!All your gain is not my loss;Spin your black threads if you will;Twist them, turn, with all your ...
"NOT flesh alone am I, when I can be So swiftly caught in Beauty's shimmering thread Whose slender fibres, woven, ...
On the shores of Gitche Gumee, Of the shining Big-Sea-Water, Stood Nokomis, the old woman, Pointing with her finger westward, ...
Out of childhood into manhood Now had grown my Hiawatha, Skilled in all the craft of hunters, Learned in all ...
"Give me of your bark, O Birch-tree! Of your yellow bark, O Birch-tree! Growing by the rushing river, Tall and ...
Dear child! how radiant on thy mother's knee, With merry-making eyes and jocund smiles, Thou gazest at the painted tiles, ...
TOSSING his mane of snows in wildest eddies and tangles, Lion-like March cometh in, hoarse, with tempestuous breath, Through all ...
A green and silent spot, amid the hills, A small and silent dell ! O'er stiller place No singing sky-lark ...
1. In terrors Los shrunk from his task: His great hammer fell from his hand: His fires beheld, and sickening, ...
The vision of Christ that thou dost see Is my vision's greatest enemy. Thine has a great hook nose like ...
the fibres give in to your starry warmth a lamp is called green and sees carefully stepping into a season ...
1 AS I sat alone, by blue Ontario's shore, As I mused of these mighty days, and of peace return'd, ...
Old Yew, which graspest at the stones That name the under-lying dead, Thy fibres net the dreamless head, Thy roots ...
Looking upon this tree with its quaint pretension Of holding the earth, a leveret, in its claws, Or marking the ...
EXULT MY MUSE! exult to see Each envious, waspish, jealous thing, Around its harmless venom fling, And dart its powerless ...
UNFADING branch of verdant hue, In modest sweetness drest, Shake off thy pearly tears of dew, And decorate my breast. ...
WHEN from the craggy mountain's pathless steep, Whose flinty brow hangs o'er the raging sea, My wand'ring eye beholds the ...
Had it been when I came to the valley where the paths parted asunder, Chance had led my feet to ...
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