Autumn in the Garden (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
When the frosty kiss of Autumn in the dark Makes its mark On the flowers, and the misty morning grieves ...
When the frosty kiss of Autumn in the dark Makes its mark On the flowers, and the misty morning grieves ...
This is the debt I pay Just for one riotous day, Years of regret and grief, Sorrow without relief. Pay ...
A hush is over all the teeming lists, And there is pause, a breath-space in the strife; A spirit brave ...
O might those sighs and tears return again Into my breast and eyes, which I have spent, That I might ...
A Coffin -- is a small Domain, Yet able to contain A Citizen of Paradise In it diminished Plane. A ...
'Twas comfort in her Dying Room To hear the living Clock -- A short relief to have the wind Walk ...
But I am not yet dead and yet I rest my head sweetly on the bare gravestones of great poets, ...
In ash-fine silt that spread like sand after the flood and before the wild weeds claimed the old stream bed; ...
Travelling on the thumb, it wasn't hard to do, you took the rides that you could get with no regrets ...
Marking time in pencil strokes across a virgin page and waiting for coincidence of heart-beat and second-hand, keying to the ...
She wrapped a paper towel around his softened cock in what he thought was quaint affection, that was new, an ...
Enduring an inguinal hernia repair can drive you to despair, it is a monumental nonsense; in my defence I hadn't ...
I never said I would, I only said I could do what you wished, the subtle difference should have raised ...
For a small child crossing the pen alone was a courageous feat, occasionally, with a maniacal bleat, the wether would ...
You may have heard a dumb-ass claim that Katrina, a hurricane, is to blame for current stress upon our fiscal ...
To say we've done it all before is not to bend the truth and though we've lost our youth the ...
It rained throughout the night, a truly welcome sound that eases sleep although we barely slept - we were distressed ...
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
Oh that those lips had language! Life has pass'd With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips ...
(Exodus, xv.26) Heal us, Emmanuel! here we are, Waiting to feel Thy touch: Deep-wounded souls to Thee repair And, Saviour, ...
Of late, in one of those most weary hours, When life seems emptied of all genial powers, A dready ...
Late, late yestreen I saw the new Moon, With the old Moon in her arms ; And I fear, I ...
PART I 'Tis the middle of night by the castle clock And the owls have awakened the crowing cock; Tu-whit!- ...
Love is no more. It died as the mind dies: the pure desire Relinquishing the blissful form it wore, The ...
'The mist is resting on the hill; The smoke is hanging in the air; The very clouds are standing still: ...
A prisoner in a dungeon deep Sat musing silently; His head was rested on his hand, His elbow on his ...
Methinks in Him there dwells alway A sea of laughter very deep, Where the leviathans leap, And little children play, ...
SHE will not sleep, for fear of dreams, But, rising, quits her restless bed, And walks where some beclouded beams ...
ARRANGING long-locked drawers and shelves Of cabinets, shut up for years, What a strange task we've set ourselves ! How ...
New England. 1 Alas, dear Mother, fairest Queen and best, 2 With honour, wealth, and peace happy and blest, 3 ...
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