The Two Glasses (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
There sat two glasses, filled to the brim, On a rich man's table, rim to rim. One was ruddy and ...
There sat two glasses, filled to the brim, On a rich man's table, rim to rim. One was ruddy and ...
Of all the gracious gifts of Spring, Is there another can safely surpass This delicate, voluptuous thing-- This ...
WHEN I am young again I'll hoard my bliss, Nor deem that inexhaustible it is, Remembering old age comes after ...
The drunkard's sin, excess in wine, Which reason drowns, and health destroys,As yet no failing is of thine, Dear Jim; ...
Ho! every one that thirsts, draw nigh!('Tis God invites the fallen race)Mercy and free salvation buy;Buy wine, and milk, and ...
"Behind the board fence at the banker's house The slender, tawn-gray creature starves and thirsts In agony of fear. A ...
Look at 'em! Toffs with their big cigars,Drivin' along in their motor cars.Nothin' at all like the olden daysWhen the ...
The storm-dances of gulls, the barking game of seals, Over and under the ocean ... Divinely superfluous beauty Rules the ...
And one of the elders of the city said, "Speak to us of Good and Evil." And he answered: Of ...
When we are thirsty God is there with us a fountain, a spring cool clear, living waters flowing down from ...
O THOU undaunted daughter of desires! By all thy dower of lights and fires; By all the eagle in thee, ...
O heart, the equal poise of love's both parts, Big alike with wounds and darts, Live in these conquering leaves; ...
The Saviour hides His face; My spirit thirsts to prove Renew'd supplies of pardoning grace, And never-fading love. The favor'd ...
Far from the world, O Lord, I flee, From strife and tumult far; From scenes where Satan wages still His ...
amidst swirling wine and flickers of silver guests quote Dante, Brecht, Kant and each other. I wait in the hall ...
A quay with vessels moored Thomas To India! Yea, here I may take ship; From here the courses go over ...
Now Night came down, and rose full soon That patroness of rogues, the Moon; Beneath whose kind protecting ray, Wolves, ...
Send the stars light, but send not love to me. Shelley. I Out of the dawning heavens that hear Young ...
Hail to thee, mountain beloved, with thy glittering purple-dyed summit! Hail to thee also, fair sun, looking so lovingly on! ...
What links are ours with orbs that are So resolutely far: The solitary asks, and they Give radiance as from ...
Full faith I have she holds that rarest gift To beauty, Common Sense. To see her lie With her fair ...
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