The Khan’s Devil (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
The Khan came from Bokhara townTo Hamza, santon of renown."My head is sick, my hands are weak;Thy help, O holy ...
The Khan came from Bokhara townTo Hamza, santon of renown."My head is sick, my hands are weak;Thy help, O holy ...
A faithful Teacher of the young from early years, and recently thePrincipal of a Female Seminary and Boarding School at ...
The valise is a female greyhound of the water-henfamily. Essentially transportable, she's distinguishedfrom the water-hen community by the fact that ...
Throw open wide your golden gates, O poet-landed month of June,And waft me, on your spicy breath, The melody of birds in ...
I wonder if the spell, the mystery,That like a haze about your silence clings,Moulding your void until we seem to ...
Come, go and practise—get your work— Do something, Nelly, pray. I hate to see you moon about In ...
'Twas night-bright beamed the silver moon,And all the stars were dim;The widow heard within the dellSweet voices of a hymn,As ...
Nature is but the outward vestibuleWhich God has placed before an unseen shrine,The Visible is but a fair, bright valeThat ...
SUN, whom the faltering snow-cloud fears, Rise, let the time of year be May,Speak now the word that April ...
To A. R. The struggles you have made in school, Today are crowned with honor; You stand now in a ...
IN the June twilight, in the soft gray twilight, The yellow sun-glow trembling through the rainy eve, As my love ...
A charming maid got on the trainWith mother and her father,Bound for the western hill and plain,Expecting naught to bother,But ...
A tortuous double iron track; a station here, a station there;A locomotive, tender, tanks; a coach with stiff reclining chair;Some ...
Frame within frame, the evolving conversation is dancelike, as though two could play at improvising snowflakes' six-feather-vaned evanescence, no two ...
Brother, today I sit on the brick bench of the house,where you make a bottomless emptiness.I remember we used to ...
One day wee Willie and his dog Sprawled on the nursery floor. He had a florist's catalogue, And turned the ...
1 A yellow band of light upon the street Pours from an open door, and makes a wide Pathway of ...
A true statement, serious an accurate reflection of consequences the results of acts of free will Maybe a bit cursory, ...
A tortuous double iron track; a station here, a station there; A locomotive, tender, tanks; a coach with stiff reclining ...
Phone for the fish knives, Norman As cook is a little unnerved; You kiddies have crumpled the serviettes And I ...
Brother, today I sit on the brick bench of the house, where you make a bottomless emptiness. I remember we ...
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