A Promise (Ada Cambridge Poems)
1.Should'st thou, in grip of dread disease,Foresee the day when thou must die,With no more hope of life or ease,But ...
1.Should'st thou, in grip of dread disease,Foresee the day when thou must die,With no more hope of life or ease,But ...
1.I know now why the world was sad,With so much good to make it glad;Why all things loveliest and bestHave ...
Poor, hapless souls! at whom we stand aghast,As at invading armies sweeping by -As strange to haggard face and desperate ...
I.Fallen the lofty halls, where vassal crowds Drank in the dawn of Gertrude's natal day. The dungeon roof an ...
How calm the spangled city spread below! How cool the night! How fair the starry skies! How sweet the dewy ...
Watchman, what of the night? See you a streak of light? Whither, O Captain of the quest, ...
Ah, 'twas but now I saw the sun flush pink on yonder placid tide; The purple hill-tops, one by one, ...
One winter eve, at twilight, when the sound Of sorrowful winds scarce troubled Nature's rest, As she lay sleeping, ...
A summer wind blows through the open porch, And, 'neath the rustling eaves, A summer light of moonrise, calm ...
Here, in her elbow chair, she sits A soul alert, alive, A poor old body shrunk and bent— ...
So still—so still! Only the endless sighing Of sad ?olian harp-notes overhead; Only the soft mass-music for the dying; ...
The snow falls soft and thick. My cedar bough Sways up and down, and scratches on the glass. The wind ...
All the wild waves rock'd in shadow, And the world was dim and grey, Dark and silent, hush'd and ...
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