Summer 1862 (Annie Adams Fields Poems)
SUMMER in all! deep summer in the pines,And summer in the music on the sands,And summer where the sea-flowers rise ...
Annie Adams Fields Poems (85 Poems)
Silence And Solitude (Annie Adams Fields Poems)
GODS of the desert! you are they We shun from childhood's earliest breath;Our passing joys are but your prey; ...
TO —– (Annie Adams Fields Poems)
AFAR! afar! the rosy sails are far,And far sound all the voices of the world;Tenderly hither bends the evening star,And ...
The Ruined Home (Annie Adams Fields Poems)
AT nightfall, coming from the wood, I crossed the hilltop's gloomy brow,Where one unsheltered farmhouse stood, Neglected, dark, ...
The First Thanksgiving Day After The War (Annie Adams Fields Poems)
Holy silence of Thanksgiving!With the presence of the living,With the peace the season takes,Falling with the falling snowflakes,After the harrowing ...
Ten Years After – Easter Sunday (Annie Adams Fields Poems)
THE Sunday morn was fresh and clear,The Sunday bells rang cheerly out,The old New England church was nearAnd welcomed faith ...
Winter Lilacs (Annie Adams Fields Poems)
To G. D. H.A BUNCH of lilacs ...
To A Poet’s Memory (Annie Adams Fields Poems)
THE shepherd climbed the hill through dark and light, And on and on he went, Higher and higher ...
The River Charles (Annie Adams Fields Poems)
BESIDE thee, O my river, where I waitThrough vista long of years and drink my fillOf beauty and of light, ...
The Mysteries Of Eleusis (Annie Adams Fields Poems)
SLOWLY, with day's dying fall,And with many a solemn sound,Slowly from the Athenian wallThe long procession wound.Five days of the ...
The Poet’s House (Annie Adams Fields Poems)
BESIDE the Indian seas,Hid in a sloping vale,Candulla dwelt, a maid,White as a wandering sailThat yields now to the breeze,Now ...
Nemesis (Annie Adams Fields Poems)
AN evening born for dreams! upon the shoreLies the long glory in her vanishingOf day grown tender ere she is ...
The Warder (Annie Adams Fields Poems)
To I. S.HALF faint with toil from morn to set of sun, I watched the shadows creepUp with slow ...
Chrysalides (Annie Adams Fields Poems)
NIGHT-BLUE skies of thine,Egypt, and thy dead who may not rest,Who with wide eyesStand staring in the darkness of the ...
The Haunts Of Poesy (Annie Adams Fields Poems)
IF Poesy thou dost love, and seek to guessThe shadowy coverts where her footsteps roam,Easy they seem and common; yet ...
Preparation (Annie Adams Fields Poems)
LAY thy heart down upon the warm, soft breast, Of June and take thy rest;The world is full of ...
Elizabeth’s Chamber: At Amesbury (Annie Adams Fields Poems)
I ENTERED her half-opened door; A welcome like the voice of seas,When overland their mellow roar Comes homeward ...
The Comforter (Annie Adams Fields Poems)
My heart is searching for thee,And lost in longing for thy voice!Voice that lies deeper than the permanent sea,Deeper than ...
To The Dwellers In Houses (Annie Adams Fields Poems)
O SINGERS who tellOf the glory of light, the music of leaves, the voice of the sea;And poets who chant ...
The Garden Of Fame (Annie Adams Fields Poems)
WOULDST thou walk in the garden of fame,Wouldst thou taste of the fruits that growIn alleys where grapes hang low,In ...
On Waking From A Dreamless Sleep (Annie Adams Fields Poems)
I WAKED; the sun was in the sky, The face of heaven was fair;The silence all about me lay, ...
The Seventh Sleeper (Annie Adams Fields Poems)
Behold him lie in beauty and in vigor,The seventh sleeper! all the rest awakened;Behold the wing?d hours are flitting by ...
Herb Yarrow (Annie Adams Fields Poems)
EVERYWHERE the Yarrow grows!Here and there the thistle blows,Here and there the barberries,By the brook the plumy fern;We know where ...
Andante – Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony (Annie Adams Fields Poems)
SOUNDING above the warring of the years,Over their stretch of toil and pain and fears, Comes the well-loved refrain, ...
In Memoriam: Otto Dresel (Annie Adams Fields Poems)
LISTEN, whence come these chords!The mighty east blossoms and now is red,And now the strings of the great harp of ...
The Coronal (Annie Adams Fields Poems)
TWINE the wild olive, twine!And hasten, maidens, while the dayspring calls, For when the sun is highThe leaflet droops ...
C. T. (Annie Adams Fields Poems)
Beloved, on the shore of this gray worldThy little bird, the sandpiper, and INow stand alone;And when mine eyeReturned from ...
The Poet’s Choice (Annie Adams Fields Poems)
TO dwell all day upon the mountain height,And ride all night upon the rifted cloud;To watch the earliest arrow in ...
Unchanged (Annie Adams Fields Poems)
ONCE men could walk these roads and hear no soundSave the sad ocean beating on the shore,Or song of birds ...
Kypris (Annie Adams Fields Poems)
WHAT hast thou done, Kypris?Thou hast pressed thy lip against the cheekOf that girl sleeping!Didst thou think, when creepingTo her ...