To emma abbott (Eugene Field Poem)
There--let thy hands be folded Awhile in sleep's repose; The patient hands that wearied not, But earnestly and nobly wrought ...
There--let thy hands be folded Awhile in sleep's repose; The patient hands that wearied not, But earnestly and nobly wrought ...
THE worst of ills, with jealousy compared, Are trifling torments ev'ry where declared. IMAGINE, to yourself a silly fool, To ...
IN life oft ills from self-imprudence spring; As proof, Candaules' story we will bring; In folly's scenes the king was ...
Give me, O indulgent Fate! Give me yet before I die A sweet, but absolute retreat, 'Mongst paths so lost ...
Through ev'ry Age some Tyrant Passion reigns: Now Love prevails, and now Ambition gains Reason's lost Throne, and sov'reign Rule ...
Weary, at last, of the Pindarick way, Thro' which advent'rously the Muse wou'd stray; To Fable I descend with soft ...
I met a lady from the South who said (You won't believe she said it, but she said it): "None ...
Liner Notes - (From Love Is A Dog From Hell) Emotional Idiocy is obviously a theme close to my heart ...
In anguish we uplift A new unhallowed song: The race is to the swift; The battle to the strong. Of ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
I PRELUDE Daughter of Psyche, pledge of that last night When, pierced with pain and bitter-sweet delight, She knew her ...
Our college rhymes,--how light they seem, Like little ghosts of love's young dream That led our boyish hearts away From ...
Dear love, for nothing less than thee Would I have broke this happy dream; It was a theme For reason, ...
Some we see no more, Tenements of Wonder Occupy to us though perhaps to them Simpler are the Days than ...
If anybody's friend be dead It's sharpest of the theme The thinking how they walked alive -- At such and ...
I learned -- at least -- what Home could be -- How ignorant I had been Of pretty ways of ...
The Soul has Bandaged moments -- When too appalled to stir -- She feels some ghastly Fright come up And ...
'Twas comfort in her Dying Room To hear the living Clock -- A short relief to have the wind Walk ...
Can we not force from widow'd poetry, Now thou art dead (great Donne) one elegy To crown thy hearse? Why ...
Are they clinging to their crosses, F. E. Smith, Where the Breton boat-fleet tosses, Are they, Smith? Do they, fasting, ...
Begin, my muse, the imitative lay, Aonian doxies sound the thrumming string; Attempt no number of the plaintive Gay, Let ...
Thus heav'nward all things tend. For all were once Perfect, and all must be at length restor'd. So God has ...
(Zecheriah, xiii.1) There is a fountain fill'd with blood, Drawn from Emmanuel's veins; And sinners, plunged beneath that flood, Lose ...
A poet's cat, sedate and grave As poet well could wish to have, Was much addicted to inquire For nooks ...
The twentieth year is well nigh past Since first our sky was overcast;- Ah would that this might be the ...
Sometimes a light surprises The Christian while he sings; It is the Lord who rises With healing on His wings; ...
Obscurest night involv'd the sky, Th' Atlantic billows roar'd, When such a destin'd wretch as I, Wash'd headlong from on ...
Friend of the Wise ! and Teacher of the Good ! Into my heart have I received that Lay More ...
The First Voice HE trilled a carol fresh and free, He laughed aloud for very glee: There came a breeze ...
You are so beautiful and I am a fool to be in love with you is a theme that keeps ...
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