Stronger Than Death (Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Poems)
prologueWho shall tell the storyAs it was?Write it with the heart's blood?(Pale ink, alas!)Speak it with the soul's lips,Or be ...
prologueWho shall tell the storyAs it was?Write it with the heart's blood?(Pale ink, alas!)Speak it with the soul's lips,Or be ...
You told the story of your love;I heard as one who did not hear;Across the opening lips of hopeCrept the ...
Push the bursting buds away,Throw aside the ripened roses,Hush the low-voiced waters' play,Where the weary sun reposesWith his head upon ...
Cold Care and I have run a race,And I, fleet-foot, have wonA little space, a little hour,To find the May ...
Atalanta and I know better!Distrust you the fable of old,Of the envious Goddess who set herOn to defeat by tempting ...
She standeth silent as a thoughtToo sacred to be uttered; allHer face unfurling like a flowerThat at a breath too ...
It chanceth once to every soul,Within a narrow hour of doubt and dole,Upon Life's Bridge of Sighs to stand,"A palace ...
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