A Study For The Critics (Maurice Thompson Poems)
A great king once, so I have heard,Went out to hunt a singing-birdWhose voice should be so sweet and strong,So ...
A great king once, so I have heard,Went out to hunt a singing-birdWhose voice should be so sweet and strong,So ...
In trance and dream of old, God's prophet sawThe casting down of thrones. Thou, watching loneThe hot Sardinian coast-line, hazy-hilled,Where, ...
OH, to be in Canada now that Spring is merry, Happy apple blossoms gay against the smiling green;Here the lilac's purple ...
THEY SAY he was thrown and run over, But that is sheer nonsense, of course:I taught him to ride when a ...
Thus sung I in these grounds erewhile, perchance Tempted by sudden aptitude of words Into that measure which least pleaseth me, Sacred to ...
Son of C. TALCOTT, Esq., died at Hartford, October 26th, 1860, aged2 years and 6 months.There came a merry voice Forth ...
They are carnalshe is holywith her torn mantillalowly...(Fringing slipperand tangled hairleft an interim silverbare)--Chastity isnow beriddenfor peons do what theyare ...
In the furnace the dry branches crackle, the crucible shines as withgold,As they carry the hot flaming metal in haste ...
(PRESIDIO DE SAN FRANCISCO, 1800)ILooking seaward, o'er the sand-hills stands the fortress, old and quaint,By the San Francisco friars lifted ...
Sweets of the wild! that breathe and bloom, On this lone tow'r, this ivy'd wall;Lend to the gale a ...
IT is a moor Barren and treeless; lying high and bare Beneath the arch?d sky. The rushing winds Fly over ...
Lying full-length upon the summer grass,And by the murmur of a summer stream,I heard the village bell, and turning roundTo ...
IN scenes untrod for many a year, I stand again, the long estranged; And gazing round me, ponder here On ...
I.Come away! Come away!Flow'rs are fresh, and fields are gay!Spring her early charms discovers;Now the yellow butterfly,Herself a flying primrose, ...
Just when the gentle hand of spring Came fringing the trees with bud and leaf,And when the blades the warm ...
Tho' youth may boast the curls that flow,In sunny waves of auburn glow;As graceful on thy hoary head,Has time the ...
An amphitheatre of purple hillsAnd emerald slopes where nestling villas gleam,Flooded with golden light that crowns and fills ...
1) An individual spider web identifies a species: an order of instinct prevails through all accidents of circumstance, though possibility ...
The blast from Freedom's Northern hills, upon its Southern way, Bears greeting to Virginia from Massachusetts Bay: No word of ...
Let us put awhile away All the cares of work-a-day, For a golden time forget, Task and worry, toil and ...
To range, deep-wrapt, along a heavenly height, O'erseeing all that man but undersees; To loiter down lone alleys of delight, ...
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