The School-Boy (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
THESE hallowed precincts, long to memory dear,Smile with fresh welcome as our feet draw near;With softer gales the opening leaves ...
THESE hallowed precincts, long to memory dear,Smile with fresh welcome as our feet draw near;With softer gales the opening leaves ...
I love chocolate cake.And when I was a boyI loved it even more.Sometimes we used to have it for teaand ...
WHEN we were farm boys, years ago,I dare not tell how many,When, strange to say, the fairest dayWas often dark ...
I ran up six flights of stairsto my small furnished roomopened the windowand began throwing outthose things most important in ...
Black reapers with the sound of steel on stonesAre sharpening scythes. I see them place the honesIn their hip-pockets as ...
Of the modern versifications ofancient legendary tales. - An impromptu.The tender infant, meek and mild,Fell down upon the stone:The nurse ...
A wild-bear chace, didst never see? Then hast thou lived in vain.Thy richest bump of glorious glee, Lies ...
Come for the prizesAll are allotted, Leaving the ranks ofCut flowers and potted, ...
Chuff! Chuff! Chuff! With a rumble and a rattle, Waking every echo on the old bush road;Waking, too, the wonder ...
Up to the ceilingAnd down to the floor,Hear him now squealingAnd calling for more.Laughing and shouting,"Away up!" he cries.Who could ...
It's your name and it's also Decemberthe last lights of the town blank outlike the pulse that climbs two churchesand ...
I The Trumpet-Vine Arbour The throats of the little red trumpet-flowers are wide open, And the clangour of brass beats ...
Smiling faces, the running feet squealing voices, the happy smiles sitting, squirming, in the pews at the feet of the ...
A huge shoe mounts up from the horizon, squealing and grinding forward on small wheels, even as a man sitting ...
No monument stands over Babi Yar. A drop sheer as a crude gravestone. I am afraid. Today I am as ...
Black reapers with the sound of steel on stones Are sharpening scythes. I see them place the hones In their ...
The little cousin is dead, by foul subtraction, A green bough from Virginia's aged tree, And none of the county ...
"Gawaine, Gawaine, what look ye for to see, So far beyond the faint edge of the world? D'ye look to ...
In distant New Zealand, whose tresses of gold The billows are ceaselessly combing, Away in a village all tranquil and ...
A little colt - broncho, loaned to the farm To be broken in time without fury or harm, Yet black ...
© 2020 Inspirational Stories