Thomas Bailey Aldrich (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
I BIRTHDAY VERSES Dear Aldrich, now November's mellow days Have brought another Festa round to you, You can't refuse a ...
I BIRTHDAY VERSES Dear Aldrich, now November's mellow days Have brought another Festa round to you, You can't refuse a ...
Yes, it was like you to forget, And cancel in the welcome of your smile My deep arrears of debt, ...
Count not the cost of honour to the dead! The tribute that a mighty nation pays To those who loved ...
Lord Jesus, Thou hast known A mother's love and tender care: And Thou wilt hear, while for my own Mother ...
They shut me up in Prose -- As when a little Girl They put me in the Closet -- Because ...
They talk as slow as Legends grow No mushroom is their mind But foliage of sterility Too stolid for the ...
The duties of the Wind are few, To cast the ships, at Sea, Establish March, the Floods escort, And usher ...
Not in this World to see his face -- Sounds long -- until I read the place Where this -- ...
I meant to have but modest needs -- Such as Content -- and Heaven -- Within my income -- these ...
How fits his Umber Coat The Tailor of the Nut? Combined without a seam Like Raiment of a Dream -- ...
Follow wise Orion Till you waste your Eye -- Dazzlingly decamping He is just as high -- (Emily Dickinson)
The problem was the manner of choice (or whether there was a choice for that matter) as you had taken ...
You awaken this time with a welcoming smile, an experience sublime, not a dream - the boner from Hell has ...
Night's grating of steel on stone and splash of water crashing from the buckets brings back that moment in a ...
Here at the spoke-ends of our galaxy it is easy to forget the central axle moving insensibly slow, still the ...
There is fog upon the river, there is mirk upon the town; You can hear the groping ferries as they ...
HE crawls to the cliff and plays on a brink Where every eye but his own would shrink; No music ...
How in all wonder Columbus got over, That is a marvel to me, I protest, Cabot, and Raleigh too, that ...
O heart, the equal poise of love's both parts, Big alike with wounds and darts, Live in these conquering leaves; ...
"To Lionel Engers-Kennedy: to the memory of Hargrave Jennings: and to A. C. W. G. and H. E. H." Beneath ...
"To Lionel Engers-Kennedy: to the memory of Hargrave Jennings: and to A. C. W. G. and H. E. H." Beneath ...
No cloud, no relique of the sunken day Distinguishes the West, no long thin slip Of sullen light, no obscure ...
A green and silent spot, amid the hills, A small and silent dell ! O'er stiller place No singing sky-lark ...
A slant of sun on dull brown walls, A forgotten sky of bashful blue. Toward God a mighty hymn, A ...
A man feared that he might find an assassin; Another that he might find a victim. One was more wise ...
The kind old face, the egg-shaped head, The tie, discreetly loud, The loosely fitting shooting clothes, A closely fitting shroud. ...
We are not come to wage a strife With swords upon this hill, It is not wise to waste the ...
Away, sad thoughts, and teasing Perplexities, away! Let other blood go freezing, We will be wise and gay. For here ...
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
I've quenched my lamp, I struck it in that start Which every limb convulsed, I heard it fall The crash ...
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