After our Likeness. (Ada Cambridge Poems)
Before me now a little picture lies-A little shadow of a childish face,Childishly sweet, yet with the dawning graceOf thought ...
Before me now a little picture lies-A little shadow of a childish face,Childishly sweet, yet with the dawning graceOf thought ...
1.Every wild she- bird has nest and mate in the warm April weather,But a captive woman, made for love - ...
1.I know now why the world was sad,With so much good to make it glad;Why all things loveliest and bestHave ...
Speak kindly, wife; the little ones will grow Fairest and straightest in the warmest sun. We talk so often ...
How calm the spangled city spread below! How cool the night! How fair the starry skies! How sweet the dewy ...
It boots not to retrace the path To ages dim and hoar, When Man, at the domestic hearth, ...
Earth, outward tuning on her path in space This pensive southern face, Swathing its smile and shine In ...
Come, go and practise—get your work— Do something, Nelly, pray. I hate to see you moon about In ...
Friend, quoth Lord Nevil, "thou art young To face the world, and thou art blind To subtle ways ...
Here, in her elbow chair, she sits A soul alert, alive, A poor old body shrunk and bent— ...
Before me now a little picture lies— A little shadow of a childish face, Childishly sweet, ...
Is it a will-o'-the-wisp, or is dawn breaking, That our horizon wears so strange a hue? Is it but ...
Over the smooth lawns, broider'd with violets, Over the hedges of snow-white thorn, Over the billowy, pink apple-blossoms, ...
Ye, that the untrod paths have braved, With heart and brain unbound; Who ask not that your souls be ...
A wave-worn boulder, with green sea-moss wrapping A silken mantle o'er its jagged sides; And silvery, seething waters softly ...
Learn, learn, learn,— Our beautiful world is not a field for sheep; Not just a place wherein to laugh and ...
Every wild she-bird has nest and mate in the warm April weather,But a captive woman, made for love — no ...
All the wild waves rock'd in shadow, And the world was dim and grey, Dark and silent, hush'd and ...
See those resplendent creatures, as they glide O'er scarlet carpet, between footmen tall, From sumptuous carriage to effulgent hall— A ...
The filthy beast! And is he here again, With his foul slobbering mouth and shuffling feet, To taint the atmosphere ...
Me let the world disparage and despise — As one unfettered with its gilded chains, As one untempted by its ...
Each day another soldier in the van, Each day a new young worker in the fields, And every day more ...
Those anguished voices in the air! Oh, I could shriek and tear my hair In rage, rebellion and despair. But ...
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