Birds (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
Many voices in the woodlandsStrike on the delighted ear,-Voices from the trees above usSinging to the opening year;Notes that seem ...
Many voices in the woodlandsStrike on the delighted ear,-Voices from the trees above usSinging to the opening year;Notes that seem ...
Heigh-ho! Babyhood! Tell me where you linger: Let's toddle home again, for we have gone astray; Take this eager hand of mine ...
The humming-bird! the humming-bird!So fairy-like and bright:It lives among the sunny flowers,A creature of delight!In the radiant islands of the ...
I entered my parlor one bright summer morn,My vases with flowers, sweet flowers to adorn.In arranging the curtains, there fell ...
I consider a song will be as humming-birdswift, down-light, missile-metal-hard, & strangeas the world of anti-matterwhere they are wondering: does ...
Why do you stand on the airAnd no sun shining?How can you hold yourself so stillOn raindrops sliding?They change and ...
Yet, yet a moment, one dim ray of light Indulge, dread Chaos, and eternal Night!Of darkness visible so much be ...
This is not June,--by Autumn's stratagemThou hast been ambushed in the chilly air; Upon thy fragile crest virginal fairThe rime ...
Sunflower tall and hollyhock, that wave in the wind together,Corn-flower, poppy, and marigold, blossomingfair and fine,Delicate sweet-peas, glowing bright in ...
"O'ER flowery fields of waving maize, The breeze of morning lightly plays; Arise, my Zumia! let us rove, The cool ...
I CAN imagine, in some otherworldPrimeval-dumb, far backIn that most awful stillness, that only gasped and hummed,Humming-birds raced down the ...
A Minstrel stands on a marble stair, Blown by the bright wind, debonair; Below lies the sea, a sapphire floor, ...
I Hoops Blue and pink sashes, Criss-cross shoes, Minna and Stella run out into the garden To play at hoop. ...
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
I gazed upon the glorious sky And the green mountains round, And thought that when I came to lie At ...
I consider a song will be as humming-bird swift, down-light, missile-metal-hard, & strange as the world of anti-matter where they ...
I. I stand on the mark beside the shore Of the first white pilgrim's bended knee, Where exile turned to ...
Here's a wonderful thing, A humming-bird's wing In hammered gold, And store well chosen Of snowflakes frozen In crystal cold. ...
O MAGNET-SOUTH! O glistening, perfumed South! My South! O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse, and love! Good and evil! O ...
This is the place that I love the best, A little brown house, like a ground-bird's nest, Hid among grasses, ...
WHY should I be wondering How you would look in black velvet and yellow? in orange and green? I who ...
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