Acceptation (Margaret Junkin Preston Poems)
We do accept thee, heavenly Peace! Albeit thou comest in a guise Unlooked for—undesired, our eyesWelcome through tears the sweet releaseFrom war, ...
We do accept thee, heavenly Peace! Albeit thou comest in a guise Unlooked for—undesired, our eyesWelcome through tears the sweet releaseFrom war, ...
Though the stream of being floweth Calmly to the sea of peace,Though the weary pilgrim goeth To his home of sleep and ...
ALONG the country roadside, stone on stone,Past waving grain-field, and near broken stile,The walls stretch onward, an uneven pile,With rankling ...
EUGENIOTOEMMA,ON HER RETURN FROM THE EAST-INDIE APRIL 15, 1781. START not, dear EMMA ...
ACT V.SCENE I. A Room in Susskind's House. LIEBHAID, CLAIRE, REUBEN.LIEBHAID.The air hangs sultry as in mid-July.Look forth, Claire; moves ...
'Twas on the morning of that fateful day When Cyrus met on Thymbra's spacious plain The mighty host by wealthy ...
'TIS well--that Man to all the varying statesOf good and ill his mind accommodates;He not alone progressive grief sustains,But soon ...
I am the Song of Rebellion.Murmuring in breasts of Grecian galley slaves,Sobbing in parched throats of pyramid hewers and builders,Rankling ...
Woe unto you, ye sons of pain that are this day in earth,Now cry for all your torment: now curse ...
DAUGHTER of Innocence! descend,Thou stranger to repining Care;Whose breast no furious passions rend,Let human hearts thy influence share:Why wilt thou ...
O thou, who turnest this impassioned leaf, Where Anguish claims the sympathetic grief, If no relentless prejudice can bind In ...
THE sigh that struggles in my breast,The tear that fain would give it rest, Can no relief impart;Since first ...
AGAIN the wood and long-withdrawing valeIn many a tint of tender green are drest,Where the young leaves, unfolding, scarce concealBeneath ...
Thou child of Night and Silence, balmy Sleep,Shed thy soft poppies on my aching brow!And charm to rest the thoughts ...
Ye distant spires, ye antique towers, That crown the watery glade, Where grateful Science still adores Her Henry's holy shade; ...
To the melody of "Sheng Sheng Man" I pine and peak And questless seek Groping and moping to linger and ...
I. My first thought was, he lied in every word, That hoary cripple, with malicious eye Askance to watch the ...
ADMIRING Nature in her wildest grace, These northern scenes with weary feet I trace; O'er many a winding dale and ...
They say the world is round, and yet I often think it square, So many little hurts we get From ...
(Time, Morning. Scene, the Shore.) Once more to daily toil--once more to wear The weeds of infamy--from every joy The ...
[As a Tribute of Esteem and Admiration this Poem is inscribed to ROBERT MERRY, Esq. A. M. Member of the ...
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