The Lost Occasion (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Some die too late and some too soon,At early morning, heat of noon,Or the chill evening twilight. Thou,Whom the rich ...
Some die too late and some too soon,At early morning, heat of noon,Or the chill evening twilight. Thou,Whom the rich ...
Over the threshold of his pleasant homeSet in green clearings passed the exiled Friend,In simple trust, misdoubting not the end."Dear ...
So all things come to our mind at last, He is close by your side in the twilight gloom, And you two ...
No man can die, till all his work is done: But who shall say, what work he had to do?—With some, ...
Hark! how the Orient's bells are proclaiming Obsequies strange to the shrines of the west--Services Christendom's cruelties shaming-- Taught by the merciful, ...
The oars fell from our hands. We climbed the darkSlopes of kelp to the stairway up the rock.Scott went first, ...
From purest wells of English undefiledNone deeper drank than he, the New World's child,Who in the language of their farm-fields ...
There came a child into the solemn hall where great Pope Innocent sat throned and heard angry disputings on Free-Will ...
'TWAS night-and where a watery sound Came moaning up the Flat,Six rude and bearded stockmen round Their blazing ...
Renowned Empresse, and great Britaines Queene,Most gratious Mother of succeeding Kings;Vouchsafe to view that which is seldome seene,A Womans writing ...
She was born in the season of fire, When a mantle of murkiness lay On the front of the crimson ...
There sinks the sun; like cavalier of old, Servant of crafty Spain, He flaunts his banner, barred ...
She danced thro' life as light as thistledown, The grace of Columbine, charm of Pierette,These, and that blithesome quality ...
A restless group of teens Gathered around a large circle Listening to me read the scripture Nodding at the intent ...
Oh, may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their ...
I There was an ancient City, stricken down With a strange frenzy, and for many a day They paced from ...
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
All in the beautiful Autumn weather One thought lingers with me and stays; Death and winter are coming together, Though ...
MOORING POSTS 1 The mooring posts marked on the South Leeds map Of 1908 still line the Aire's side, huge, ...
1 Ye heavenly spirits, whose ashy cinders lie Under deep ruins, with huge walls opprest, But not your praise, the ...
I. Sunrise. In my sleep I was fain of their fellowship, fain Of the live-oak, the marsh, and the main. ...
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