Confession and Absolution (Emily Mary Barton Poems)
I WILL arise, and from this earthly plane,To Thee, my Spirit-Father, I will go,Revealing all my suffering, sin, and pain,The ...
I WILL arise, and from this earthly plane,To Thee, my Spirit-Father, I will go,Revealing all my suffering, sin, and pain,The ...
Those wild beesfrom unknown frontiersthat you often see vibrate headlonginto yellow blossoma swarm born outsideevery ordinance and lawlike the stubborn ...
O Tuneful voice, I still deploreThose accents which, tho' heard no more,Still vibrate on my heart;In echo's cave I long ...
Ages since, men heard the ringing Of the song-bells gently swinging In the starry domes of thought; Long they listened ...
My heart is tuned to sorrow, and the strings Vibrate most readily to minor chords, Searching and sad; my mind ...
We boast no more of our bloodless flag, that rose from a nation's slime; Better a shred of a deep-dyed ...
Funny how a spider waits lingers motionless for prey to vibrate the strands of the wed, to touch the right ...
Long slender fingers clutched the bow caressed the cello Fingers like spiders walked gingerly down the neck Shuddered on the ...
Watching them play Seeing their notes on the paper Sensing the fun in practice in hearing the sheet come alive ...
Sister of love-lorn Poets, Philomel! How many Bards in city garret pent, While at their window they with downward eye ...
Thou Power! who hast ruled me through Infancy's days, Young offspring of Fancy, 'tis time we should part; Then rise ...
The rain has stopped. The waterfall will roar like that all night. I have come out to take a walk ...
SENSIBILITY, how charming, Dearest Nancy, thou canst tell; But distress, with horrors arming, Thou alas! hast known too well! Fairest ...
We sow the glebe, we reap the corn, We build the house where we may rest, And then, at moments, ...
When sunset, a brass gong, vibrate through Couva, is then I see my soul, swiftly unsheathed, like a white cattle ...
I Once, when a boy, I killed a cat. I guess it's just because of that A cat evokes my ...
She fears him, and will always ask What fated her to choose him; She meets in his engaging mask All ...
WHEN from the craggy mountain's pathless steep, Whose flinty brow hangs o'er the raging sea, My wand'ring eye beholds the ...
Chill penury repress'd his noble rage, And froze the genial current of his soul. GRAY. IF GRIEF can deprecate the ...
VI We lack, yet cannot fix upon the lack: Not this, nor that; yet somewhat, certainly. We see the things ...
BEYOND where billows roll or tempests vex Is gone the gentlest of the gentle sex! ---Her brittle bark on life's ...
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