To A Bereaved Mother (John Quincy Adams Poems)
Sure, to the mansions of the blestWhen infant innocence ascends,Some angel, brighter than the rest,The spotless spirit's flight attends.On wings ...
Sure, to the mansions of the blestWhen infant innocence ascends,Some angel, brighter than the rest,The spotless spirit's flight attends.On wings ...
The pin-swin or spine-swine(the edgehog miscalled hedgehog) with all his edges out, echidna and echinoderm in distressed-pin-cushion thorn-fur coats, the spiny ...
Sure, to the mansions of the blestWhen infant innocence ascends,Some angel brighter than the restThe spotless spirit's flight attends.On wings ...
Before man parted for this earthly strand,While yet upon the verge of heaven he stood,God put a heap of letters ...
Poet-Astronomer, who night by nightGod's star-page scanned, yet failed to read aright,Where throughout space His alphabet of sunsSpells Life, in ...
Shy soul and stalwart, man of patient willThrough years one hair's-breadth on our Dark to gain,Who, from the stars he ...
THE BODY Call in the dancers. THE SOUL All is vain. We live, and living is the pain We die ...
Paraphrased From David's Psalms. Psalm XIX.THE arched heavens ere since the birth of timeInstruct the earth, in characters sublime, ...
Ogrin the Hermit in old age set forth This tale to them that sought him in the extreme Ancient grey ...
O Lord, my God, how longShall my poor heart pant for a boundless joy?How long, O mighty Spirit, shall I ...
GENOA, 1872Two sunny winter days I sped alongThe Riviera's winding mountain way;Scarcely I caught the blue sea's faint far song,By ...
An angel saw me sitting by a brook,Pleased with the silence, and the melodiesOf wind and water which did fall ...
OR endless sleep 't will be, - and that is rest,Freedom forever from life's weary cares -Or else a life ...
He is a link between this and the coming world. He is A pure spring from which all thirsty souls ...
Over the terminal, the arms and chest of the god brightened by snow. Formerly mercury, formerly silver, surface yellowed by ...
It is full winter now: the trees are bare, Save where the cattle huddle from the cold Beneath the pine, ...
1 AS I sat alone, by blue Ontario's shore, As I mused of these mighty days, and of peace return'd, ...
One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound ...
Before those cruel twins whom at one birth Incestuous Change bore to her father Time, Error and Truth, had hunted ...
He took a frayed hat from his head, And "Peace on Earth" was what he said. "A morsel out of ...
All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued, Through Heaven's wide champain held his way; till Morn, Waked by the circling Hours, ...
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