The Undying (John Freeman Poems)
In thin clear light unshadowed shapes go bySmall on green fields beneath the hueless sky.They do not stay for question, ...
In thin clear light unshadowed shapes go bySmall on green fields beneath the hueless sky.They do not stay for question, ...
ITHE LAST CUP OF CANARYSo, the powder's low, and the larder's clean, And surrender drapes, with its black impending,All the stage ...
Gloucester streets walking in Autumn twilight,Past Kineburgh's cottage and old Raven Tavern,That Hoare he kept, the Puritan, who tiredOr fired, ...
Where thickest on that eastward hill the grassy mounds are piled, We laid him till the glorious morn beside his waiting ...
THE folks, that on the first of MayWore winter coats and hose,Began to say, the first of June,"Good Lord! how ...
January 14, 1880CHICAGO sounds rough to the maker of verse;One comfort we have--Cincinnati sounds worse;If we only were licensed to ...
(For Christine and Tom)Oases are charming 'mid the Afric sands,Beautiful is summer after rain;But the sweetest blossoms may be eyes ...
(For W. M. Letts)The roads look up to Holy Cross,The sturdy towers look down,And show a kindly word to allWho ...
I never went to Mamblethat lies above the Teme,so I wonder who's in Mamble,and whether people seemwho breed and brew ...
Cromwell, our chief of men, who through a cloudNot of war only, but detractions rude,Guided by faith and matchless fortitude,To ...
DANVERS, 1866BANKRUPT! our pockets inside out!Empty of words to speak his praises!Worcester and Webster up the spout!Dead broke of laudatory ...
I'll tell you a story; but pass the "jack",And let us make merry to-night, my men.Aye, those were the days ...
(REPORTED BY TRUTHFUL JAMES)Waltz in, waltz in, ye little kids, and gather round my knee,And drop them books and first ...
Where are you bound for, Sailorman, sailormanWith the missis and the dog And your big spreets'l flopping?"Maldon, Manningtree,West ...
THREE hours ago in Seven Dials She lived awaiting all the trials That haunt her race, but now shall be ...
Now from the dust of half-forgotten things,You rise to haunt me at the year's Spring- cleaning,And ...
Through the open French window the warm sunLights up the polished breakfast-table, laidRound a bowl of crimson roses, for one ...
Nobody in the widow's household ever celebrated anniversaries. In the secrecy of my room I would not admit I cared ...
The Druids waved their golden knives And danced around the Oak When they had sacrificed a man; But though the ...
In Worcester, Massachusetts, I went with Aunt Consuelo to keep her dentist's appointment and sat and waited for her in ...
The blast from Freedom's Northern hills, upon its Southern way, Bears greeting to Virginia from Massachusetts Bay: No word of ...
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