Music In Camp (John Reuben Thompson Poems)
Two armies covered hill and plain, Where Rappahannock's watersRan deeply crimsoned with the stain Of battle's recent slaughters.The summer clouds lay pitched ...
Two armies covered hill and plain, Where Rappahannock's watersRan deeply crimsoned with the stain Of battle's recent slaughters.The summer clouds lay pitched ...
Thou happy, happy elf!(But stop,-first let me kiss away that tear-)Thou tiny image of myself!(My love, he's poking peas into ...
Oft, in the silence of the night, When the lonely moon rides high,When wintry winds are whistling, And we hear the owl's ...
Out of the poignant glare, the shadeless heatOf summer noon, beseech thee follow meInto the dim, dream-haunted secrecyThe cool, green ...
UP and down, up and down,In the air the sunshine mellows--Green or yellow, gold or brown,See those gay capricious fellows!Sparkling, ...
AH! you tricksy little elf,How you idolize yourself!And believe the world was madeLike a gay-hued masquerade,Just for you to sport ...
Oh gay and shining June time!Oh meadow brave and bright,Abloom with little children,All tossing in the light!They dance and circle ...
Thou art the last rose of the year,By gusty breezes rudely fanned:The dying Summer holds thee fastIn the hot hollow ...
I.Before PROSPERO'S cell. Moonlight.ARIEL.So - Prospero is gone - and I am free -Free, free at last. His latest charge ...
Gelett Burgess' original poem…A Purple Cow I never saw a Purple Cow, I never hope to see one; But I ...
Subtly conscious, all awake,Let us clear our eyes, and breakThrough the cloudy chrysalis,See the wonder as it is.Down a narrow ...
O swift forerunners, rosy with the race!Spirits of dawn, divinely manifestBehind your blushing banners in the sky,Daring invaders of Night's ...
Follow me, follow me, Over brake and under tree, Thro' the bosky tanglery, Brushwood and bramble! Follow me, follow me, ...
Mothers, out of the mother-heart, Fashion a song both soft and low,Always the same dear mother art, Rocking the baby ...
CEASE to call him sad and sober, Merriest of months, October! Patron of the bursting bins, Reveler in wayside inns, ...
We planned a glorious voyage, my Captain bold and I,To sail in bliss on summer seas while halcyon days went ...
FORMAL, quaint, precise, and trim, You begin your steps demurely -- There's a spirit almost prim In the feet that ...
CLOUDS that gather round Loch Katrine, I know not which is the earth or sky; Your sun-smit battlements float so ...
Life's all getting and giving, I've only myself to give. What shall I do for a living? I've only one ...
Cupid on a summer day, Wearied by unceasing play, In a rose heart sleeping lay, While, to guard the tricksy ...
When the sun sets over the long blue wave I spring from my couch of rest, And I hurtle and ...
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