Thirty-nine (Eugene Field Poem)
O hapless day! O wretched day! I hoped you'd pass me by-- Alas, the years have sneaked away And all ...
O hapless day! O wretched day! I hoped you'd pass me by-- Alas, the years have sneaked away And all ...
Thousand minstrels woke within me, "Our music's in the hills; "- Gayest pictures rose to win me, Leopard-colored rills. Up!-If ...
The Beggar Lad -- dies early -- It's Somewhat in the Cold -- And Somewhat in the Trudging feet -- ...
Precious to Me -- She still shall be -- Though She forget the name I bear -- The fashion of ...
Kill your Balm -- and its Odors bless you -- Bare your Jessamine -- to the storm -- And she ...
I bring an unaccustomed wine To lips long parching Next to mine, And summon them to drink; Crackling with fever, ...
Four Trees -- upon a solitary Acre -- Without Design Or Order, or Apparent Action -- Maintain -- The Sun ...
I have a King, who does not speak -- So -- wondering -- thro' the hours meek I trudge the ...
The only Ghost I ever saw Was dressed in Mechlin -- so -- He wore no sandal on his foot ...
Though giant rains put out the sun, Here stand I for a sign. Though earth be filled with waters dark, ...
Thus heav'nward all things tend. For all were once Perfect, and all must be at length restor'd. So God has ...
England, with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English ...
Delia, the unkindest girl on earth, When I besought the fair, That favour of intrinsic worth A ringlet of her ...
Velvet soft the night-star glowed Over the untrodden road, Through the giant glades of yew ...
Velvet soft the night-star glowed Over the untrodden road, Through the giant glades of yew ...
I THERE is one Mind, one omnipresent Mind, Omnific. His most holy name is Love. Truth of subliming import! with ...
Notus in fratres animi paterni. Hor. Carm. lib.II.2. A bless?d lot hath he, who having passed His youth and early ...
Late, late yestreen I saw the new Moon, With the old Moon in her arms ; And I fear, I ...
Low was our pretty Cot : our tallest Rose Peep'd at the chamber-window. We could hear At silent noon, and ...
AH! from my eyes the tears unbidden start, Albion! as now thy cliffs (that bright appear Far o'er the wave, ...
When He appoints to meet thee, go thou forth- It matters not If south or north, Bleak waste or sunny ...
WE take from life one little share, And say that this shall be A space, redeemed from toil and care, ...
I. THE GARDEN. ABOVE the city hung the moon, Right o'er a plot of ground Where flowers and orchard-trees were ...
BUT two miles more, and then we rest ! Well, there is still an hour of day, And long the ...
The room is quiet, thoughts alone People its mute tranquillity; The yoke put on, the long task done, I am, ...
I'll not weep that thou art going to leave me, There's nothing lovely here; And doubly will the dark world ...
"Why?" Because all I haply can and do, All that I am now, all I hope to be,-- Whence comes ...
Chorus-O wat ye wha's in yon town, Ye see the e'enin sun upon, The dearest maid's in yon town, That ...
DEAR SMITH, the slee'st, pawkie thief, That e'er attempted stealth or rief! Ye surely hae some warlock-brief Owre human hearts; ...
EDINA! Scotia's darling seat! All hail thy palaces and tow'rs, Where once, beneath a Monarch's feet, Sat Legislation's sov'reign pow'rs: ...
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