The Youthful Villager And The Hermit (James Madison Bell Poems)
Once on a clear autumnal day, With weary heart and spirit bowed,I sought a silent scene away From all the turmoil of ...
Once on a clear autumnal day, With weary heart and spirit bowed,I sought a silent scene away From all the turmoil of ...
PART IAway up on the River aux Lievres, That is foaming and surging always,And from rock to rock leaping through rapids, Which ...
'Tis no tale of heroism, 'tis no tale of storm and strife,But of ordinary boozing, and of dull domestic life-Of ...
Is all discovery made?Is the hand of Conquest stayed?Are all the heroes dead, all epics told?Is Fame's grand tower no ...
The best job I had was moving a stonefrom one side of the road to the other.This required a permit ...
Some flowers are brighter far in hue Than others by their side,But God baptizes all with dew, And spreads His mantle wideTo ...
THE Season speaks this year of lifeConfusing words of strife,Suggesting weeds instead of fruits and flowersIn all Earth's bowers.With heart ...
This road, where I live, between two turns of the wayIs more interesting than a city avenueIn the cities everybody ...
THE holy bell, untouched by human hands, Clanged suddenly, and tolled with solemn knell.Between the massive, blazoned temple-doors,Thrown wide, to ...
Ow! Wow! Wow!(Funeral note sustained by flutes, suggesting a long-bodied, short-legged, large-headed dog in anguish.)Ow! Wow!We are the people who ...
There sinks the sun; like cavalier of old, Servant of crafty Spain, He flaunts his banner, barred ...
All these months of heat and drought,Baked within, and burnt without;Cattle dying in our regions,Drifts of dust and insect legions;Every ...
To Ezra Pound These are the names of the companies that have made money from this war nineteenhundredsixtyeight Annodomini fourthousand ...
I Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. ...
Glassmakers, at century's end, compounded metallic lusters in reference to natural sheens (dragonfly and beetle wings, marbled light on kerosene) ...
I TRUTH is within ourselves; it takes no rise From outward things, whate'er you may believe. There is an inmost ...
1 STARTING from fish-shape Paumanok, where I was born, Well-begotten, and rais'd by a perfect mother; After roaming many lands-lover ...
Oh how it would enable me To titillate my vanity If you should choose to label me A Poet of ...
Of all the boys with whom I fought In Africa and Sicily, Bill was the bravest of the lot In ...
It came from the prison this morning, Close-twisted, neat-lettered, and flat; It lies the hall doorway adorning, A very good ...
"O Trade! O Trade! would thou wert dead! The Time needs heart -- 'tis tired of head: We're all for ...
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