Spring Song Of The Swallow (Marietta Holley Poems)
Oh, the days are growing longer;So rang the jubilant song of the swallow; I come a-bringing beauty into the land,The sky ...
Oh, the days are growing longer;So rang the jubilant song of the swallow; I come a-bringing beauty into the land,The sky ...
Speak thou the truth. Let others fence,And trim their words for pay:In pleasant sunshine of pretenceGuard thou the fact: though ...
A cloud, like that the old-time Hebrew sawOn Carmel prophesying rain, beganTo lift itself o'er wooded Cardigan,Growing and blackening. Suddenly, ...
O TIME ! 'tis thou whom we despoiler call,And only thou whom man could ne'er enthral;Whose flight we trace not, ...
Scene: --A MADHOUSE.Persons: --VISITOR, PHYSICIAN, AND PATIENT."Veris miscens falsa." SENECA. ------------------- ...
'Midst Tivoli's luxuriant glades,Bright-foaming falls, and olive shades,Where dwelt, in days departed long,The sons of battle and of song,No tree, ...
AN acorn fell from an old oak tree,And lay on the frosty ground"O, what shall the fate of the acorn ...
How beautiful doth the morning rise O'er the hills, as from her bower a bride ...
In the soft sunny regions that circle the waistOf the globe with a girdle of topaz and gold,Which heave with ...
Wake--awake! The cry rings out; From the high watch-tower comes the shout. Awake, imperial German land-- Ye by distant Danube ...
Before the monstrous wrong he sets him down-- One man against a stone-walled city of sin. ...
WARM, generous and young in heart and brain,A wise, ripe scholar of the antique mould,Had he but chosen he might ...
Drums on the watch-tower have emptied the roads -At the frontier it's autumn; a wild-goose cries.This is a night in ...
Friend of the Wise ! and Teacher of the Good ! Into my heart have I received that Lay More ...
"As certain also of your own poets have said"-- (Acts 17.28) Cleon the poet (from the sprinkled isles, Lily on ...
A storm-beaten old watch-tower, A blind hermit rings the hour. All-destroying sword-blade still Carried by the wandering fool. Gold-sewn silk ...
I weep for Adonais -he is dead! O, weep for Adonais! though our tears Thaw not the frost which binds ...
I weep for Adonais--he is dead! Oh, weep for Adonais! though our tears Thaw not the frost which binds so ...
MORNING and evening Maids heard the goblins cry: "Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy: Apples and quinces, ...
Hence, loathed Melancholy, ............Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born In Stygian cave forlorn ............'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights ...
THE North Star whispers: "You are one Of those whose course no chance can change. You blunder, but are not ...
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