Death. Victurosq; Dei Celant, Ut Vivere Durent; Felix Est Mori — (Daniel Baker Poems)
Luc. Phar. Lib. .I. Come, Life's long Hope, and on thy peaceful Breast My burning Temples let me rest! Worn ...
Luc. Phar. Lib. .I. Come, Life's long Hope, and on thy peaceful Breast My burning Temples let me rest! Worn ...
This Consul Casement-he who heard the cry Of stricken people-and who in his fight To lift the torture load from ...
I do not quarrel with the gas,Our modern range is fine,The ancient stove was doomed to passFrom Time's grim firing ...
Gone, gone again, May, June, July, And August gone, Again gone by, Not memorable Save that I saw them go, ...
In whatsoever place residesGood Temper, she o'er all presides;The most obdurate heart she guides.Even Anger yields unto her power,And sullen ...
Winter is over, and the ache of the year Quieted into test; The torn boughs heal, and the time of ...
Under the banner of brave men and true,Under our banner, white stars on the blue,Wide be the friendship we give ...
Down stucco sidestreets, Where light is pewter And afternoon mist Brings lights on in shops Above race-guides and rosaries, A ...
What do they think has happened, the old fools, To make them like this? Do they somehow suppose It's more ...
Keen, fitful gusts are whisp'ring here and there Among the bushes half leafless, and dry; The stars look very cold ...
As late I rambled in the happy fields, What time the skylark shakes the tremulous dew From his lush clover ...
I LEGEND Long ago Apollo called to Aristæus, youngest of the shepherds, Saying, "I will make you keeper of my ...
To the cities I came in a time of disorder That was ruled by hunger. I sheltered with the people ...
Here, where love's stuff is body, arm and side Are stabbing-sweet 'gainst chair and lamp and wall. In every touch ...
The state with the prettiest name, the state that floats in brackish water, held together by mangrave roots that bear ...
1 AS I sat alone, by blue Ontario's shore, As I mused of these mighty days, and of peace return'd, ...
1 I WANDER all night in my vision, Stepping with light feet, swiftly and noiselessly stepping and stopping, Bending with ...
Somehow the skies don't seem so blue As they used to be; Blossoms have a fainter hue, Grass less green ...
I Once, when a boy, I killed a cat. I guess it's just because of that A cat evokes my ...
I I doubt if ten men in all Tilbury Town Had ever shaken hands with Captain Craig, Or called him ...
From cold Norse caves or buccaneer Southern seas Oft come repenting tempests here to die; Bewailing old-time wrecks and robberies, ...
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