The Drovers (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
THROUGH heat and cold, and shower and sun,Still onward cheerly driving!There's life alone in duty done,And rest alone in striving.But ...
THROUGH heat and cold, and shower and sun,Still onward cheerly driving!There's life alone in duty done,And rest alone in striving.But ...
I seem to see the old tree stand, Its sturdy, giant form A spectacle remembered, and A pilgrim-shrine for all the land Before it ...
Now of all the old sinners in mischief immersed,From the ages of Gog and Magog,At the top of the list,from ...
Sir Fopling, crost in Love and stript at Play,Pensive and grumbling on his Pillow lay;How vain says he, are all ...
At the moon's down-going let it beOn the quarry hill with its one gnarled tree.The red-rock road of the underbrush,Where ...
OH, we all was tired o' waiting in the spring of eighty-three, When The Duke came up the 'arbour an' ...
I'm very unhappy, tho' nothing I've done.I'll tell you the cause of my sorrow;To-morrow my darling is leaving the run,She ...
When I think of the weary nights and daysOf poor, hard-working folk, alwaysI see, with his head on his bosom ...
I was six when I first saw kittens drown. Dan Taggart pitched them, 'the scraggy wee shits', Into a bucket; ...
The events of September 11th 2001 remain bitter sweet; as well as 2973 innocents confirmed dead (with their 19 terrorist ...
Adam, a brown old vulture in the rain, Shivered below his wind-whipped olive-trees; Huddling sharp chin on scarred and scraggy ...
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