Among the Hills (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
PRELUDEALONG the roadside, like the flowers of goldThat tawny Incas for their gardens wrought,Heavy with sunshine droops the golden-rod,And the ...
PRELUDEALONG the roadside, like the flowers of goldThat tawny Incas for their gardens wrought,Heavy with sunshine droops the golden-rod,And the ...
It was golden and splendid, That City of light; A vision suspended In deeps of the night; A region of ...
In the minister's morning sermonHe had told of the primal fall,And how thenceforth the wrath of GodRested on each and ...
(A medieval Spanish legend slanderously setting forth the utter unreason of woman.)ROMAQUIA sat and wept herLace mantilla full of tears.King ...
Joy is a trick in the air; pleasure is merelycontemptible, the dangledCarrot the ass follows to market or precipice;But limitary ...
In our unreason and unrest,How little know we what is best! How little can explore the deepWhence emanates our weal and ...
IN the sorrow and the terror of the nations, In a world shaken through by lamentations, Shall I dare know ...
I would not have you so kindly,Thus early in friendship's year-A little too gently, blindly,You let me near.So long as ...
IThe sister Hours in circles linked,Daughters of men, of men the mates,Are gone on flow with the day that winked,With ...
Bright burn, that flings itself or flows Among the blooming ...
A faint sea without wind or sun;A sky like flameless vapour dun; A valley like an unsealed graveThat no ...
'Twas a Venerable Person, whom I met one Sunday morning,All appareled as a prophet of a melancholy sect;And in a ...
A under the snow in the dark and the cold,pale little sprout was humming;Sweetly it sang, 'neath the frozen mold,Of ...
A word out of season Of vapid unreasonMay seem mere political twaddle at best; But this thing needs abatement ...
As I left the Halls at Lumley, rose the vision of a comely Maid last season worshipped dumbly, watched with ...
Joy is a trick in the air; pleasure is merely contemptible, the dangled Carrot the ass follows to market or ...
Once I dipt into the future far as human eye could see, And I saw the Chief Forecaster, dead as ...
I Eddie Linden Dear Eddie we've not met Except upon the written page And at your age the wonder Is ...
Somno mollior unda I Dawn is dim on the dark soft water, Soft and passionate, dark and sweet. Love's own ...
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