A Hymn to the Night (Alice Cary Poems)
Midnight, beneath your sky,Where streaks of soft blue lieBetween the starry ranksLike rivers with white lilies on their banks,Frown not ...
Midnight, beneath your sky,Where streaks of soft blue lieBetween the starry ranksLike rivers with white lilies on their banks,Frown not ...
Midnight, beneath your sky,Where streaks of soft blue lieBetween the starry ranksLike rivers with white lilies on their banks,Frown not ...
Emily Mayfield all the daySits and rocks her cradle alone,And never a neighbor comes to sayHow pretty little Cyrus has ...
Maidens, whose tresses shine,Crowned with daffodil and eglantine,Or, from their string?d buds of brier roses,Bright as the vermeil closesOf April ...
One night, when bitterer winds than ours,On hill-sides and in valleys low,Built sepulchers for the dead flowers,And buried them in ...
Come there ever memories, Harold,Like a half remembered songFrom the time of gladness vanishedDown the distance, oh, so long!Come they ...
No harsh complaint nor rude unmannered wo,Shall jar discordant in the dulcet flowOf music, raining through the chestnut wingsOf the ...
The year has lost its leaves again,The world looks old and grim;God folds His robe of glory thus,That we may ...
Low by the reedy sea went ancient Ops,Tracking for crownless Saturn: quietlyFrom her gray hair waned off the sober light,For ...
Alas! his praise I cannot write,Nor paint him true for other eyes;For only in love's blessed lightCould you have known ...
As white as the moonlight that fell at her feetShe stood, but for blushes, as many and sweetAs the tops ...
Shorter and shorter now the twilight clips The days, as through the sunset gates they crowd, And Summer from ...
Once when we lingered, sorrow-proof,My gentle love and me,Beneath a green and pleasant roofOf oak leaves by the sea,Like yellow ...
Not the light of the long blue Summer,Nor the flowery huntress, Spring,Nor the chilly and moaning Winter,Doth peace to my ...
Yesternight -- how long it seems! --Met I in the land of dreams,One that loved me long ago --Better it ...
Leave me, O leave me! my o'erwearied feet,O my beloved! may walk no more with thee;For I am standing where ...
Boatman, thrice I've called thee o er,Waiting on life's solemn shore,Tracing, in the silver sand,Letters, till thy boat should land.Drifting ...
I did love thee, Lily Lee,As the petrel loves the sea,As the wild bee loves the thyme,As the poet loves ...
WE'RE married, they say, and you think you have won me,--Well, take this white veil from my head, and look ...
Talk to my heart, oh winds --Talk to my heart to-night;My spirit always findsWith you a new delight,Finds always new ...
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