In Memoriam (Alice Dunbar-Nelson Poems)
The light streams through the windows arched high,And o'er the stern, stone carvings breaksIn warm rich gold and crimson waves,Then ...
The light streams through the windows arched high,And o'er the stern, stone carvings breaksIn warm rich gold and crimson waves,Then ...
'A Lyttl Sooth Sermun.' If, on December 31, When the old year is nearly run, And night is nearing twelve ...
A little time agone, a few brief years,And there was peace within our beauteous borders;Peace, and a prosperous people, and ...
CAN we not consecrate To man and God above This volume of our great Supernal tide of love? 'Twere wrong ...
What says the Lizard, Swinging high his shining spear? . . ."Pass along, my lady, I've known, ye ...
Rough is the road I am journeying now, Heavy the burden I'm bearing to-day; ...
Though victory's proof of the skill you possess,Defeat is the proof of your grit;A weakling can smile in his days ...
Son of our King: When yoemen sailed From Britain to expand her sway,The coward from High venture quailed, The weakling ...
Not long ago, I prayed for dying grace,For then I thought to see Thee face to ...
Dust of my dust, And dust with my dust, O, child who died as you entered the world, Dead with ...
They called me the weakling, the simpleton,For my brothers were strong and beautiful,While I, the last child of parents who ...
She lies, a grave disdain all her defence, Too imperturbable for scorn. She hears Only the murmur of the flowing ...
Right must not live in idleness, Nor dwell in smug content; It must be strong, against the throng Of foes, ...
King Arthur made new knights to fill the gap Left by the Holy Quest; and as he sat In hall ...
My dream had never died or lived again. As in some mystic middle state I lay; Seeing I saw not, ...
Send but a song oversea for us, Heart of their hearts who are free, Heart of their singer, to be ...
My mother she had children five and four are dead and gone; While I, least worthy to survive, persist in ...
She was so wonderful I wondered If wedding me she had not blundered; She was so pure, so high above ...
My Claudia, it is long since we have met, So kissed, so held each other heart to heart! I thought ...
Dust of my dust, And dust with my dust, O, child who died as you entered the world, Dead with ...
They called me the weakling, the simpleton, For my brothers were strong and beautiful, While I, the last child of ...
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