The Perfect Word (Lucy Larcom Poems)
How satisfying is a perfect word!How great, to know the truth, and utter itSo that it shall eternally be heard,And ...
How satisfying is a perfect word!How great, to know the truth, and utter itSo that it shall eternally be heard,And ...
We are things of dry hours and the involuntary plan,Grayed in, and gray. "Dream" makes a giddy sound, not strongLike ...
Feed me, O morning, till the rayThat love hath kindled in the shade,Lost in the satisfying dayOf Light's perfection, fade. ...
1.WHAT though my words glance sideways from the thingWhich I would utter in thine ear, my sire!Truth in the inward ...
Two lone glad doves are sighing on the roof,Sending in mournful notes to the starsA faint tremble of wailing joy; ...
In the days before the high tide Swept away the towers of sandBuilt with so much care and labour By ...
Thou remainest, blest Redeemer,Lord of peace and Lord of strife,Jesus, Savior, Lord forever,Thou remainest, Christ, my life.RefrainThou remainestThou remainestThou remainest, ...
MY future will not copy fair my past On any leaf but Heaven's. Be fully done, Supernal Will ! I ...
How still it is! Sunshine itself here falls In quiet shafts of light through the high trees Which, arching, make ...
I How fresh the Dartle's little waves that day! A steely silver, underlined with blue, And flashing where the round ...
I Over the yawning chimney hangs the fog. Drip -- hiss -- drip -- hiss -- fall the raindrops on ...
Continuing to live -- that is, repeat A habit formed to get necessaries -- Is nearly always losing, or going ...
Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be. Let it be the pioneer on ...
One man's death though somewhat cathartic yet bringing the pain the loss back to the forefront One man's death hardly ...
God, God! With a child's voice I cry, Weak, sad, confidingly- God, God! Thou knowest, eyelids, raised not always up ...
MY future will not copy fair my past On any leaf but Heaven's. Be fully done Supernal Will ! I ...
The new ergonomics were delivered just before lunchtime so we ignored them. Without revealing the particulars let me just say ...
The new ergonomics were delivered just before lunchtime so we ignored them. Without revealing the particulars let me just say ...
Said President MacConnachie to Treasurer MacCall: "We ought to have a piper for our next Saint Andrew's Ball. Yon squakin' ...
The lions who ate the Christians on the sands of the arena By indulging native appetites played was now been ...
In o'er-strict calyx lingering, Lay music's bud too long unblown, Till thou, Beethoven, breathed the spring: Then bloomed the perfect ...
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