After the Golden Wedding (Three Soliloquies) (James Kenneth Stephen Poems)
I. The husband's. She's not a faultless woman; no! She's not an angel in disguise: She has her rivals here below: She's not an ...
I. The husband's. She's not a faultless woman; no! She's not an angel in disguise: She has her rivals here below: She's not an ...
My dear wife sits beside the fire With folded hands and dreaming eyes,Watching the restless flames aspire, And wrapped in thralling memories.I ...
Is she not lovely! Oh! when, long ago,My own dead mother gazed upon my face,As I stood blushing near in bridal ...
IYoung laughters, and my music! Aye till now The voice can reach no blending minors near; ...
ALAN had preached his sermon--grave, devout, Yet full of lightnings and electric shocks For tender souls who reckoned even doubt ...
It knocks me can in, this ere game uv life, A bloke gets born, grows up, looks round fer ...
CLARICE awoke next morning with the sense That something she had found, and something lost; A little pain she felt, ...
I. HERSELFTo be a sweetness more desired than Spring;A bodily beauty more acceptableThan the wild rose-tree's arch that crowns the ...
A child was born in sin and shame,Wronged by his very birth,Without a home, without a name,One over in the ...
After War-time.O LIFE, dear life, with sunbeam finger touching This poor damp brow, or flying freshly by On wings of ...
"You must choose between me and your cigar." -- BREACH OF PROMISE CASE, CIRCA 1885. Open the old cigar-box, get ...
Should you be allowed sole privilege of unconscionable martyrdom? This affliction is self-pity brought by suffering as penitent to unrequited ...
I want more lives in which to love This world so full of beauty, I want more days to use ...
"O Trade! O Trade! would thou wert dead! The Time needs heart -- 'tis tired of head: We're all for ...
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