The Old-Home Folks (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Such was the Child-World of the long-ago--The little world these children used to know:--Johnty, the oldest, and the best, perhaps,Of ...
Such was the Child-World of the long-ago--The little world these children used to know:--Johnty, the oldest, and the best, perhaps,Of ...
IVictors, living, with laureled brow,And you that sleep beneath the sward!Your song was poured from cannon throats:It rang in deep-tongued ...
Where the great green combers break in thunder on the barrier reefs,--Where, unceasing, sounds the mighty diapason of the deep,--Ringed ...
I. The husband's. She's not a faultless woman; no! She's not an angel in disguise: She has her rivals here below: She's not an ...
THE land was pale with famineAnd racked with fever-pain;The frozen fiords were fishless,The earth withheld her grain.Men saw the boding ...
"Fill high the bowl, and spice it well, and pourThe dews oblivious: for the Cross is sharp, The Cross is sharp, ...
Evil-eyed loiterer, pilgrim of fashion, Sunless and hard is thy frost-bitten heart;Scoffing at nature's affection and passion, Till thou hast made the ...
To him, who, many a night upon the main,At mid-watch, from the bounding vessel's side,Shivering, has listened to the rocking ...
A ROSE once pressed against thy lips,Then gayly flung to me,Is all the gift I treasure upIn memory of thee;It ...
If the hours of life are fleeting, Let those hours be well employed!Working, resting, parting, meeting, Life was given to be enjoyed.And ...
Translated From The German of Emil Rittershaus.THE human soul--a world in little; The world--a greater human soul; The eye of ...
There was a strife 'twixt man and maid-- Oh, that was at the birth of time! But what befell 'twixt ...
Go where glory waits thee, But while fame elates thee, Oh! still remember me. When the praise thou meetest To ...
Now Morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl, When Adam waked, so ...
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