Costanza (Felicia Dorothea Hemans Poems)
She knelt in prayer. A stream of sunset fellThro' the stain'd window of her lonely cell,And with its rich, deep, ...
She knelt in prayer. A stream of sunset fellThro' the stain'd window of her lonely cell,And with its rich, deep, ...
Over the camp-firesDrank I with heroes,Under the Donau bank,Warm in the snow trench:Sagamen heard I there,Men of the Longbeards,Cunning and ...
Hist! . . . . . . Hark!The night is very dark,And we've to go a mile or soAcross the ...
In a wretched, lonely, desolate spotThat nursed and cherished and sheltered it not, In a cold and ...
We can claim without elation or immodest fabricationThat the genius of our nation is embodied in our camps,And futurity's summation ...
Mariana, with the morning so, Walking one morning up a road near woods, With the sun young that morning, And ...
Never give up, though life be a battleWherein true men may fail, and true causes be sold; ...
Fraser river's flooding high,Cold and deep and cruel flowing,All lonely stand the hills nearby,And man may drown and no one ...
I cannot sleep for thinking of thy face, Which thrusts itself between the dark and me, Scaring my ...
I work all day, and get half-drunk at night. Waking at four to soundless dark, I stare. In time the ...
We have another viceroy now, -- those days are dead and done Of Delilah Aberyswith and depraved Ulysses Gunne. Delilah ...
There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away ...
'My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.' Arthur ...
Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay, That was built in such a logical way It ran a hundred ...
The message of the scripture ringing in my ear with me last night as I went to him More clearly ...
I remember him all so vividly like it was so recent far fewer than the close to forty years ago ...
We didn't really know; but they called it a horse needle the day the state police came to tell us, ...
You may have heard a dumb-ass claim that Katrina, a hurricane, is to blame for current stress upon our fiscal ...
Fanfare of northwest wind, a bluejay wind announces autumn, and the equinox rolls back blue bays to a far afternoon. ...
Marie Laveau, a colored woman who eventually became known as the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans, often used her knowledge ...
I Because the night was falling warm and still Upon a golden day at April's end, I thought; I will ...
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