Astraea: The Balance Of Illusions (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
WHAT secret charm, long whispering in mine ear,Allures, attracts, compels, and chains me here,Where murmuring echoes call me to resignTheir ...
WHAT secret charm, long whispering in mine ear,Allures, attracts, compels, and chains me here,Where murmuring echoes call me to resignTheir ...
I give thee, love, a carcanet,With all the rainbow splendor set,Of diamonds that drink the sun,Of emeralds that feed uponHis ...
At Shelley's birth,The Lark, dawn-spirit, with an anthem loudRose from the dusky earthTo tell it to the Cloud,That, like a ...
A Historical Tragedy in Five Acts.This play is dedicated, in profound veneration and respect, to thememory of George Eliot, the ...
Meanwhile, within the heart of the dead sun, After that glory angelic had passed out, Long time reigned silence, night ...
PART THE FIRST.IN THELMON'S breast contending passions rise, While, with resentment stung, he proudly flies; The harmonist divine, to madness ...
Think of me, dearest! when the Western star Sheds o'er the soft blue heav'n its lovely light;For know, that ...
Thy face is far from this our war, Our call and counter-cry, I shall not find Thee quick and kind, ...
Each day is a new day, another day given for us to choose how to use it for good or ...
We had another day of Christmas more family time, more presents, another big meal, another house full of squeals for ...
The new candle tarts, ready for the winter season shared by the shopper yesterday, the fruits of her labor, presented ...
Photographs Forgotten, unseen Burst into view Rekindling old memories Moments of time Places smells moods shadows conjured up life through ...
Friend of the Wise ! and Teacher of the Good ! Into my heart have I received that Lay More ...
I. My first thought was, he lied in every word, That hoary cripple, with malicious eye Askance to watch the ...
Coldly, sadly descends The autumn-evening. The field Strewn with its dank yellow drifts Of wither'd leaves, and the elms, Fade ...
I Beyond the hollow sunset, ere a star Take heart in heaven from eastward, while the west, Fulfilled of watery ...
When you are standing at your hero's grave, Or near some homeless village where he died, Remember, through your heart's ...
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