Dirge (Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld Poems)
Pure spirit! O where art thou now! O whisper to my soul!O let some soothing thought of thee,The bitter grief ...
Pure spirit! O where art thou now! O whisper to my soul!O let some soothing thought of thee,The bitter grief ...
Beyond the woodland's shading, Beyond the sun-kissed field,Where laughs in joy unfading The garden of the weald,Look southward where uplifted ...
When quacks with pills political would dope us, When politics absorbs the livelong day, I like to think ...
Now far from my old northern land,I live where gentle winters pass;Where green seas lave a wealthy strand,And unsown is ...
O Comic Spirit, hovering overhead, With sage's brows and finely-tempered smile, Prom whose bowed lips a silvery laugh ...
"In Westertown a statue rules the square,The settler as the sculptor visioned him.Nor slender, nor yet massive; sinewy,Bearded, erect, broad ...
Is it a sin, to wish that I may meet thee In that dim world whither our spirits stray, ...
When life as opening buds is sweet, And golden hopes the fancy greet,And Youth prepares his joys to meet,—Alas! how ...
Alas! the evanescence of a dream, That, like a rose, shall never blossom more! A glimpse of unguessed things, and ...
At Sagamore the Chief lies lowAbove the hill in circled rowThe whirring airplanes dip and fly,A guard of honor from ...
CHANGE and chancefulness in my flowering youthtime, Set me sun by sun near to one unchosen; Wrought us fellowly, and ...
1842 I As I ride, as I ride, With a full heart for my guide, So its tide rocks my ...
I was a seed that fell In silver dew; And nobody could tell, For no one knew; No one could ...
Dusting my books I spent a busy day: Not ancient toes, time-hallowed and unread, but modern volumes, classics in their ...
Light up your pipe again, old chum, and sit awhile with me; I've got to watch the bannock bake -- ...
The Dreamer visioned Life as it might be, And from his dream forthright a picture grew, A painting all the ...
Have you gazed on naked grandeur where there's nothing else to gaze on, Set pieces and drop-curtain scenes galore, Big ...
The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats through unseen among us, -- visiting This various world with as inconstant ...
Before those cruel twins whom at one birth Incestuous Change bore to her father Time, Error and Truth, had hunted ...
Earth, Ocean, Air, belovèd brotherhood! If our great Mother has imbued my soul With aught of natural piety to feel ...
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