Nightfall in Dordrecht (Eugene Field Poems)
"The mill goes toiling slowly around With steady and solemn creak, And my little one hears in the kindly ...
"The mill goes toiling slowly around With steady and solemn creak, And my little one hears in the kindly ...
Back to the green deeps of the outer bay The red and amber currents glide and cringe, Diminishing behind a luminous fringe Of cream-white surf and wandering wraiths of spray. Stealthily, in the old reluctant way, The red flats are uncovered, mile on mile, To glitter in the sun a golden while. Far down the flats, a phantom sharply grey, The herring weir emerges, quick with spoil. Slowly the tide forsakes it. Then draws near, Descending from the farm-house on the height, A cart, with gaping tubs. The oxen toil Sombrely o'er the level to the weir, And drag a long black trail across the light.(Charles G. D. Roberts)
"THE OSPREY sails above the sound, The geese are gone, the gulls are flying; The herring shoals swarm thick ...
The grand road from the mountain goes shining to the sea, And there is traffic on it and many a ...
The grand road from the mountain goes shining to the sea, And there is traffic in it and many a ...
Assembling ways to glisten,ImmensityIs fresh as paint, and friendly,Like salt.Until wind pleats it, the waterSpends mica's childish glitter.At the end ...
You shall hear how Hiawatha Prayed and fasted in the forest, Not for greater skill in hunting, Not for greater ...
Three notes I allowed aloud to sum the August beachiness of herring gull railway pigeon otherwise birdless fishless conjoin - ...
When I go rowing on the lake, I long to be a man; I'll give my Sunday frock to have ...
Although it is a cold evening, down by one of the fishhouses an old man sits netting, his net, in ...
You waves, though you dance by my feet like children at play, Though you glow and you glance, though you ...
Now warm with ministerial ire, Fierce sallied forth our loyal 'Squire, And on his striding steps attends His desperate clan ...
Let Dew, house of Dew rejoice with Xanthenes a precious stone of an amber colour. Let Round, house of Round ...
I Christmas Poem for Nancy Noel, Noel We live and we die Between heaven and hell Between the earth and ...
I KNOW a Jew fish crier down on Maxwell Street with a voice like a north wind blowing over corn ...
THERE is a wolf in me . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . a red tongue for raw meat . ...
TWO Swede families live downstairs and an Irish policeman upstairs, and an old soldier, Uncle Joe. Two Swede boys go ...
(AMSTERDAM, 1645) And there you are again, now as you are. Observe yourself as you discern yourself In your discredited ...
The gh comes from rough, the o from women's, and the ti from unmentionables--presto: there's the perfect English instance of ...
Holland, that scarce deserves the name of Land, As but th'Off-scouring of the Brittish Sand; And so much Earth as ...
Elephants are contagious! Be careful how you tread. An Elephant that's been trodden on Should be confined to bed! Leopards ...
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