Discovery (Margaret Widdemer Poems)
WITHIN my mirror I could seeLast night as I gazed steadfastlyAn old strange thing look out at me;The smile my ...
WITHIN my mirror I could seeLast night as I gazed steadfastlyAn old strange thing look out at me;The smile my ...
An Incident in One Act.PERSONS. THE KING, THE QUEEN, EARL ATHULF, THE MINSTREL.Heralds, Pages, Men-at-Arms, Sentries. TIME: THE PAST.SCENE:Night in ...
There is a power whose inspiration fills Nature's fair fabric, sun- and star-inwrought, Like airy dew ere any drop distils, ...
Nor look nor tone revealeth aughtSave woman's quietness of thought;And yet around her is a lightOf inward majesty and might. ...
When behind her violated border, With unflinching bayonet and gun,Belgium, in heroic battle order, Met the savage onset ...
It takes great strength to train To modern service your ancestral brain; To lift the weight ...
Doubt ye no more! there are those on highWho minister well to mortality;Angels of heaven and angels of earth,Some who ...
Oh, not to you, my mentor sweet,And stern as only sweetness can,Whose grave eyes look out steadfastlyAcross my nature's plan,And ...
Friends!Have you, too, noticed that calm which descendsUpon affairs today?Search as we may,The papers have few things indeed to sayOf ...
In the great palace halls, where dwell the gods, I heard a voice filling the vaulted roof; The ...
Not a drum was heard, nor a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried; ...
She is fair to see and sweet,Dainty from her head to feet,Modest, as her blushing shows,Happy, as her smiles disclose,And ...
Happy soul that free from harmsRests within his Shepherd's arms!Who his quiet shall molest?Who shall violate his rest?Jesus doth his ...
WHEN hides the sun behind a bank of cloud, Though well we know the sun is shining still, ...
A wind comes from the north Blowing little flocks of birds Like spray across the town, And a train, roaring ...
Innocent decision: to enjoy. And the pathos of hopefulness, of his solicitude: --he in mended serape, she having plaited carefully ...
One day old Trooper Campbell Rode out to Blackman's Run, His cap-peak and his sabre Were glancing in the sun. ...
To the Vestals Those priests which first the Vestal fire begun, Which might be borrow'd from no earthly flame, Devis'd ...
How can we find? how can we rest? how can We, being gods, win joy, or peace, being man? We, ...
The heart and service to you proffer'd With right good will full honestly, Refuse it not, since it is offer'd, ...
There is a power whose inspiration fills Nature's fair fabric, sun- and star-inwrought, Like airy dew ere any drop distils, ...
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