Once Upon A Time (John Hartley Poems)
When dull November's misty shroud, All Nature's charms depress,Flinging a damp, dark, deadening cloud, O'er each heart's joyousness.Our fancies quit their lighter ...
When dull November's misty shroud, All Nature's charms depress,Flinging a damp, dark, deadening cloud, O'er each heart's joyousness.Our fancies quit their lighter ...
Oh, would that she were here,These hills and dales among,Where vocal groves are gayly mockedBy Echo's airy tongue:Where jocund nature ...
Refresh me with the bright blue violet, And put the pale faint--scented primrose near, For I am breathing yet: Shed not one silly ...
UPON the mead a violet stood,Retiring, and of modest mood,In truth, a violet fair.Then came a youthful shepherdess,And roam'd with ...
God, I return to You on April days When along country roads You walk with me, And my faith blossoms like the ...
LITTLE leaves and flow'rets too,Scatter we with gentle hand,Kind young spring-gods to the view,Sporting on an airy band.Zephyr, bear it ...
A budding mouth and warm blue eyes;A laughing face; and laughing hair,-So ruddy was its riseFrom off that forehead fair;Frank ...
YOU have taught me laughter, Joyousness and light,How the day is rosy-wild, Star-enthrilled the night:Maybe God can teach me After you are goneHow ...
Sweet, kiss my eyelids close, and let me lie, On this old-fashioned sofa, in the dim And purple ...
Name, my Laura, name the whirl-compelling Bodies to unite in one blest whole—Name, my Laura, name the wondrous magic By ...
Once, long ago, before the godsHad left this earth, by stream and forest glade,Where the first plough upturned the clinging ...
I hear thee, echo! And I start to hear thee With a strange shock, as from among the hillsThy ...
The little song Virginia sings has such a happy ring! We always stop to listen when we hear the baby ...
I might not ever scale the mountain heightsWhere all the great men stand in glory now; I may not ever ...
Born to the sun and smiling skies, And bird-songs to the morning flung,To joyousness that never dies In ...
Child of the thoughtful brow,The speaking eye and the confiding look! List to those teachings now,And make thy guiding ...
LITTLE leaves and flow'rets too, Scatter we with gentle hand, Kind young spring-gods to the view, Sporting on an airy ...
UPON the mead a violet stood, Retiring, and of modest mood, In truth, a violet fair. Then came a youthful ...
To be a great musician you must be a man of moods, You have to be, to understand sonatas and ...
Name, my Laura, name the whirl-compelling Bodies to unite in one blest whole-- Name, my Laura, name the wondrous magic ...
Ah, she was music in herself, A symphony of joyousness. She sang, she sang from finger tips, From every tremble ...
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