The peter-bird (Eugene Field Poem)
Out of the woods by the creek cometh a calling for Peter, And from the orchard a voice echoes and ...
Out of the woods by the creek cometh a calling for Peter, And from the orchard a voice echoes and ...
THE worst of ills, with jealousy compared, Are trifling torments ev'ry where declared. IMAGINE, to yourself a silly fool, To ...
NEAR Rome, of yore, close to the Florence road, Was seen a humble innkeeper's abode; Small sums were charged; few ...
IF truth give pleasure, surely we should try; To found our tales on what we can rely; Th' experiment repeatedly ...
Yesterday, for a long while, the early morning sunlight in the trees was sufficient, replaced by a hello from a ...
It was no place for the faithless, so I felt a little odd walking the marshland with my daughters, Canada ...
When Mother died I thought: now I'll have a death poem. That was unforgivable. Yet I've since forgiven myself as ...
Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul; and ...
The Trees like Tassels -- hit -- and swung -- There seemed to rise a Tune From Miniature Creatures Accompanying ...
The Products of my Farm are these Sufficient for my Own And here and there a Benefit Unto a Neighbor's ...
The face I carry with me -- last -- When I go out of Time -- To take my Rank ...
My best Acquaintances are those With Whom I spoke no Word -- The Stars that stated come to Town Esteemed ...
More Life -- went out -- when He went Than Ordinary Breath -- Lit with a finer Phosphor -- Requiring ...
Light is sufficient to itself -- If Others want to see It can be had on Window Panes Some Hours ...
He outstripped Time with but a Bout, He outstripped Stars and Sun And then, unjaded, challenged God In presence of ...
Be Mine the Doom -- Sufficient Fame -- To perish in Her Hand! (Emily Dickinson)
All Circumstances are the Frame In which His Face is set -- All Latitudes exist for His Sufficient Continent -- ...
"Unto Me?" I do not know you -- Where may be your House? "I am Jesus -- Late of Judea ...
There came a Day at Summer's full, Entirely for me -- I thought that such were for the Saints, Where ...
It feels a shame to be Alive -- When Men so brave -- are dead -- One envies the Distinguished ...
I fit for them -- I seek the Dark Till I am thorough fit. The labor is a sober one ...
I see thee better -- in the Dark -- I do not need a Light -- The Love of Thee ...
Her -- "last Poems" -- Poets -- ended -- Silver -- perished -- with her Tongue -- Not on Record ...
Captain AJ Shout, VC, MC, MID (& bar), who died at Gallipoli of wounds and was posthumously awarded the VC, ...
Nero was not worried when he heard the prophecy of the Delphic Oracle. "Let him fear the seventy three years." ...
And what is Life? An hour-glass on the run, A mist retreating from the morning sun, A busy, bustling, still-repeated ...
Phone for the fish knives, Norman As cook is a little unnerved; You kiddies have crumpled the serviettes And I ...
In a cool curving world he lies And ripples with dark ecstasies. The kind luxurious lapse and steal Shapes all ...
(Halted around the fire by night, after moon-set, they sing this beneath the trees.) What light of unremembered skies Hast ...
When you were there, and you, and you, Happiness crowned the night; I too, Laughing and looking, one of all, ...
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