For Larger Lives (Lucy Larcom Poems)
IN heaven, they say, is undisturbed and perfect peace; and yetAlong our heart-strings, even there, a tremor of regretMust sometimes ...
IN heaven, they say, is undisturbed and perfect peace; and yetAlong our heart-strings, even there, a tremor of regretMust sometimes ...
A STRENGTH Thy service cannot tire,A faith which doubt can never dim,A heart of love, a lip of fire,O Freedom's ...
I waited and worked To win myself leisure,Till loneliness irked And I turned to raw pleasure.I drank and I gamed, I feasted and ...
Part 1. St. Mark's hushed abbey heardThrough prayers a roar and din;A brawling voice did shout, "Knave shaveling, let me ...
Moses, meantime, straightway unto the house Of Aaron speeded back: for, gathered there By hasty summons, knew he that the ...
But when the days were numbered, then befellThe parting of our Lord — which was to be —Whereby came wailing ...
I. LINDSAY castle's jutted forth On the wild, old sounding sea,And a gallant race of the hardy North, ...
Can I, my friend, with thee condole?— Can I conceive the woes that try men,When late repentance racks the soul ...
Poets sing and fables tell us,Or old folk lore whispers low,Of the origin of all things,Of the spring from whence ...
To Andrew LytleParis, November 1929Their faces are bony and sharp but very red, althoughtheir ancestors nearly two hundred years have ...
There is a cap in the closet, Old, tattered, and blue—Of very slight value, It may be, to ...
In the journey of life, as we travel alongTo the mystical goal that is hidden from sight,You may stumble at ...
(ll. 135-143) The day departed, hasting over the dwellings ofearth. And after the gleaming light the Lord, our maker, thruston ...
Do you remember the dark pool at Nimes, The pool that had no bottom? Shadowed by Druids ere the Romans ...
Go, ye sweet messengers, To that dim-lighted room,Where lettered wisdom from the walls Sheds a delightful gloom; Where ...
I My ardours for emprize nigh lost Since Life has bared its bones to me, I shrink to seek a ...
It was long I lay Awake that night Wishing that night Would name the hour And tell me whether To ...
Love took chambers on our street Opposite to mine; On his door he tacked a neat, Clearly lettered sign. Straightway ...
I dreamed as in my bed I lay, All night's fathomless wisdom come, That I had shorn my locks away ...
I Between extremities Man runs his course; A brand, or flaming breath. Comes to destroy All those antinomies Of day ...
Can I, my friend, with thee condole?-- Can I conceive the woes that try men, When late repentance racks the ...
I I doubt if ten men in all Tilbury Town Had ever shaken hands with Captain Craig, Or called him ...
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