Music (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Thou, oh, thou!Thou of the chorded shell and golden plectrum! thouOf the dark eyes and pale pacific brow!Music, who by ...
Thou, oh, thou!Thou of the chorded shell and golden plectrum! thouOf the dark eyes and pale pacific brow!Music, who by ...
Pride spoils ev'ry sweet reflection--Mingles guilt with retrospection--For conscience must aloud proclaimIts sin, its sorrow, and its shame.Tho' pride may ...
Sovereign! Am I! By God's decree Of Hell for all eternity, Where joy and peace are never known, Nor light ...
Brothers, have you observed the calm?Even the leaves of that symbolic palmThat denotes peace, political and otherwise, are scarcely stirredBy ...
Once on a time a friend of mine prevailed on me to go To see the dazzling splendors of a ...
'Tis years, soubrette, since last we met; And yet—ah, yet, how swift and tenderMy thoughts go back in time's dull ...
HELEN , by every sympathy allied,By love of virtue and by love of song,Compassionate in youth, and beauty's pride,To thee ...
Time's finger on the dial of my lifePoints to high noon! and yet the half-spent dayLeaves less than half remaining, ...
OBLIVION, teach me, teach me thee to find; They tell me, in thy waters thou canst steepEach sad remembrance ...
Sometime at a concert hall, in recollection,A Brahms intermezzo will wound me-I'll start,Remember that summer, the flowerbed garden,The walks and ...
995This was in the White of the Year-That-was in the Green-Drifts were as difficult then to thinkAs Daisies now to ...
886These tested Our Horizon-Then disappearedAs Birds before achievingA Latitude.Our Retrospection of ThemA fixed Delight,But our AnticipationA Dice-a Doubt-(Emily Dickinson)
How simple the pleasures of those childhood days, Simple but filled with exquisite satisfactions. The iridescent labyrinth of the spider, ...
'Tis years, soubrette, since last we met; And yet--ah, yet, how swift and tender My thoughts go back in time's ...
These tested Our Horizon -- Then disappeared As Birds before achieving A Latitude. Our Retrospection of Them A fixed Delight, ...
Left in immortal Youth On that low Plain That hath nor Retrospection Nor Again -- Ransomed from years -- Sequestered ...
This was in the White of the Year -- That -- was in the Green -- Drifts were as difficult ...
Time's finger on the dial of my life Points to high noon! And yet the half-spent day Leaves less than ...
1 TO think of time-of all that retrospection! To think of to-day, and the ages continued henceforward! Have you guess'd ...
There were faces to remember in the Valley of the Shadow, There were faces unregarded, there were faces to forget; ...
'I play for Seasons; not Eternities!' Says Nature, laughing on her way. 'So must All those whose stake is nothing ...
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