Friendship (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
'Tis not in the bitterest woes of lifeThat the love of friends, as a rule, grows cold;Still less does it ...
'Tis not in the bitterest woes of lifeThat the love of friends, as a rule, grows cold;Still less does it ...
Nor spring, nor bloom, nor freshness! O come thou!Bloom, verdure, springtime, all things, call thee now.Not of the moon so ...
I dream a world where manNo other man will scorn,Where love will bless the earthAnd peace its paths adornI dream ...
Think, kind Jesu, my salvationCaused Thy wondrous Incarnation,Leave me not to reprobation.Faint and weary Thou hast sought me,On the Cross ...
Into all the onward current and this iron time that feels Its own way with din and clamour through this ...
Everybody knows me, Dr. Goosegrease, M.D. All the best paying patients, I've got 'em. Harley Street's my abode, No. 6 ...
Oor Sis is a mitherly sort o' a bairn,An unco gleg thing, an' sae easy to learn,That let her see ...
A rock, for ages, stern and high, Stood frowning 'gainst the earth and sky, And never bowed his haughty crest ...
O, SAD and solemn holy day,O, bitterest of bitter hours!Behold He staggers on His wayBeneath the cross that saps His ...
Wise men tell me thou, O Fate,Art invincible and great. Well, I own thy prowess; stillDare I flount thee, with ...
'Tis past! we breathe! assuaged at lengthThe flames that drank our vital strength!Smote with intolerable heatNo more our throbbing temples ...
She took my strength by minutes, She took my life by hours, She drained me like a fevered moon That ...
Swift fleet the billowy clouds along the sky, Earth seems to shudder at the storm aghast;While only beings as ...
Take heed of this small child of earth; He is great; he hath in him God most high. Children before ...
Why should this flower delay so long To show its tremulous plumes? Now is the time of plaintive robin-song, When ...
Like Christ, reaching to Peter, reach out your hands when doubts, winds of struggle, adversity catches our focus saps the ...
As Parmigianino did it, the right hand Bigger than the head, thrust at the viewer And swerving easily away, as ...
Queen Guinevere had fled the court, and sat There in the holy house at Almesbury Weeping, none with her save ...
Swift fleet the billowy clouds along the sky, Earth seems to shudder at the storm aghast; While only beings as ...
We'd gained our first objective hours before While dawn broke like a face with blinking eyes, Pallid, unshaved and thirsty, ...
She took my strength by the minutes, She took my life by hours, She drained me like a fevered moon ...
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