The Old Sheperd’s Recollections (Matilda Betham Poems)
Low, heavy clouds are hanging on the hills, And half-impatient of the sun's approach, Shake sullenly their cold and languid wings! Oh! it ...
Low, heavy clouds are hanging on the hills, And half-impatient of the sun's approach, Shake sullenly their cold and languid wings! Oh! it ...
EDINA'S cloud-cap'd hills and spires,With castle-rocks, and cannon's roar,These fortresses which guard your coast,Encompass'd by the sea-girt shore.Your public domes ...
Sit on the bed. I'm blind, and three parts shell.Be careful; can't shake hands now; never shall.Both arms have mutinied ...
Nothing is lost; the drop of dew That trembles on the leaf or flowerIs but exhaled, to fall anew In summer's thunder-shower:Perchance ...
"Oh! will he come?" said Alice Wray, "He did not once deceive,And for the dear sake of the past I will again ...
WE are the sons of valiant men, Armenians great and free;Our grandsires were descended from a hero-ancestry ;Our fathers brave ...
LONG live our sovereign, George the three,With honest men still compass'd be,His subjects to protect;And when our Prince shall rule ...
(Dedicated to Cincinnati Branch, N. A. A. C. P., and sung to the air, "America")Dear Lord we come to Thee,In ...
Thou, whose sweet youth and early hopes inhanceThy rate and price, and mark thee for a treasure,Hearken unto a Vesper, ...
The blazing rays of sunshine, little by little, condense; and the South Wind, with its swirls of dust, returns and ...
SWEET girl! affection's pleading voice attend,And hear the tender counsels of a friend;By friendship's pen impress'd, these lines receive,And tho' ...
Humility, said Lena, as she drewA well-worn glove upon her sun-burnt hand,"Is the best ornament a Christian knows."I think not ...
I. Hearken, (for it concerns you near) to me All you that happy wish to be. Would you be certain ...
The ole train puffs in once a day On the ole Gunn's Gully line;In a lazy, leisurely kind o' way ...
Toil, toil, toil,Ever, unceasingly;The sun gets up, and the sun goes down,Alike in the city, in field or town,He brings ...
SLOW to the silent mansions of the dead,Yon train in sad funereal pomp draws near;That solemn knell proclaims a spirit ...
Stupefy my heart to every day's monotony, Seal up my eyes, I would not look so far, Chasten my steps ...
Life is a privilege. Its youthful days Shine with the radiance of continuous Mays. To live, to breathe, to wonder ...
Begin each morning with a talk to God, And ask for your divine inheritance Of usefulness, contentment, and success. Resign ...
I We thrill too strangely at the master's touch; We shrink too sadly from the larger self Which for its ...
(Being the philosophy of many Soldiers.) Sit on the bed; I'm blind, and three parts shell, Be careful; can't shake ...
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