Modern Moses (James Madison Bell Poems)
There is a tide in men's affairs,Leading to fame not wholly theirs —Leading to high positions, wonThrough noble deeds by ...
There is a tide in men's affairs,Leading to fame not wholly theirs —Leading to high positions, wonThrough noble deeds by ...
Respectfully dedicated to BISHOP BENJAMIN W. ARNETT, A life-long and devoted friend and a noble and loyal citizen whose work ...
Comes on a quarrel stormy and stern, if brief,'Tween the two foe friends, this demanding whatCannot be;--who immunity shall secure'Gainst ...
With sadness I survey our present generation!Their future seems so empty, dark, and cold,Weighed down beneath a load of knowing ...
To toil all day and lie worn-out at night;To rise for all the years to slave and sleep,And breed new ...
Oh, victorious Queen, it's through thy loyal graceI bring this wreath-a token from my race;True, thou art gone, no more ...
I am restless being but half myself,The hours withholding a fulfilment.My eyes seeking horizonsAre tired and hot with looking too ...
Act II.SCENE I. Ball in the Palace of DON JOHN. Dance. DON JOHN and MARIA together. DON TOMMASO, ANNICCA. LORDS ...
If I sit in the dustFor lauding good wine,Ha, ha! it is just:So sits the vine!Abu Midjan sang as he ...
I. I honour Nature, holding it unjustTo look with jealousy on her designs;With every passing year more fast she twinesAbout ...
The morning rain, when, from her coop released, The hen, exulting, flaps her wings, when from The balcony the husbandman ...
Dear father, from my cradle I acknowledgeAll your wise kindness, tender care, and love, Through days of kindergarten, school, and ...
Fully occupied with growing--that's the amaryllis. Growing especially at night: it would take only a bit more patience than I've ...
If we are comfortable so like the rich man how can we follow to be disciples of Christ if we ...
If we are like the rich fool gathering up our possessions making bigger barns to store them away we are ...
A Bee his burnished Carriage Drove boldly to a Rose -- Combinedly alighting -- Himself -- his Carriage was -- ...
Well, as you say, we live for small horizons: We move in crowds, we flow and talk together, Seeing so ...
WHEN the breeze of a joyful dawn blew free In the silken sail of infancy, The tide of time flow'd ...
My dog has died. I buried him in the garden next to a rusted old machine. Some day I'll join ...
Frowning, the owl in the oak complained him Sore, that the song of the robin restrained him Wrongly of slumber, ...
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