Men (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
Man is a creature of a thousand whims;The slave of hope and fear and circumstance.Through toil and martyrdom a million ...
Man is a creature of a thousand whims;The slave of hope and fear and circumstance.Through toil and martyrdom a million ...
"GOD bless the man who first invented sleep!" So Sancho Panza said, and so say I:And bless him, also, that he ...
"Write me a rhyme of the present time". And the poet took his penAnd wrote such lines as the miser minds Hide ...
Ye sons of Erin who have comeTo this fair land to make your home,Look back upon your native shore,Where lordling ...
FOR HIS SAFE RETURN FROM THE NORTHERN EXPEDITION AGAINST THE SCOTS. Great is thy Charge, O North! be wise and ...
You may tinker with the tariff and make some simple gains, You may put on tolls or take 'em off, ...
On the 2nd of August, 1846AIR-"THE BATTLE OF HOHENLINDEN" O'er plains and cities far away,All lorn and lost the morning ...
Grey gloom the storm-clouds in the Orient far, Foreshadowing dark and anxious hours to be,Where Britain's rivals to her ...
A tortuous double iron track; a station here, a station there;A locomotive, tender, tanks; a coach with stiff reclining chair;Some ...
Suspicion's playful counterfeitBegot your question strange:The only thing that I forgetIs that there's any change.Did that long blight which fell ...
Why wilt thou chide,Who hast attained to be denied?Oh learn, aboveAll price is my refusal, Love.My sacred NayWas never cheapened ...
A tortuous double iron track; a station here, a station there; A locomotive, tender, tanks; a coach with stiff reclining ...
I'll tell you an old-fashioned story That Grandfather used to relate, Of a joiner and building contractor; 'Is name, it ...
FROM those drear solitudes and frowsy cells, Where Infamy with sad Repentance dwells; Where turnkeys make the jealous portal fast, ...
Dear Goddess of Corn, whom the ancients we know, (Among other odd whims of those comical bodies,) Adorn'd with somniferous ...
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