Cradle Song (Josephine Preston Peabody Poems)
ILord Gabriel, wilt thou not rejoiceWhen at last a little boy's Cheek lies heavy as a rose And his eyelids close?Gabriel, when ...
ILord Gabriel, wilt thou not rejoiceWhen at last a little boy's Cheek lies heavy as a rose And his eyelids close?Gabriel, when ...
Out at Woodruff Place--afar From the city's glare and jar, With the leafy trees, instead Of the awnings, overhead; With the shadows cool and ...
Come follow, heart upon your sleeve,The trail, a-teasing by,Past tasseled corn and fresh-mown hay,Trim barns and farm-house shy,Past hollyhocks and ...
Into the quiet woodsCome from the glare and heatOf the paven street!Out of the jar and fretAnd the jangling noises!Here ...
There blossomed into golden day another rosy morn:The ship-wrecked sailor woke, and watched again, of hope forlorn,From his high, purple-misted ...
There was a little lawny isletBy anemone and violet,Like mosaic, paven:And its roof was flowers and leavesWhich the summer's breath ...
Round Rajagriha five fair hills arose,Guarding King Bimbas?ra's sylvan town:Baibh?ra green with lemon-grass and palms;Bipulla, at whose foot thin SarsutiSteals ...
I have not any fearful tale to tellOf fabled giant or of dragon-claw,Or bloody deed to pilfer and to sellTo ...
I SATE upon a lonely peak, A backwood river's course to view, ...
"THE CACTUS towers, straight and tall, Through fallow fields of chapparal; And here and there, in paths apart, ...
WHAT dream in what strange landShall waken me to-night? What sweetLips burn for mine? What arms entwineMy neck, my knees, ...
Good Hope! Since white men's banners First met the seaward breeze,Since first the keels of Europe Swept round ...
Out of the poisonous East, Over a continent of blight, Like a maleficent Influence released From the most squalid cellerage ...
Under what withering leprous light The very grass as hair is grey, Grass in the cracks of the paven courts ...
I. Oh, what a dawn of day! How the March sun feels like May! All is blue again After last ...
Before those cruel twins whom at one birth Incestuous Change bore to her father Time, Error and Truth, had hunted ...
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