Custer: Book Third (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
IAs in the long dead days marauding hostsOf Indians came from far Siberian coasts,And drove the peaceful Aztecs from their ...
IAs in the long dead days marauding hostsOf Indians came from far Siberian coasts,And drove the peaceful Aztecs from their ...
And now, when poets are singing Their songs of olden days, And now, when the land is ringing With sweet ...
In his great cushioned chair by the fenderAn old man sits dreaming to-night,His withered hands, licked by the tender,Warm rays ...
The world was widowed by the death of Christ:Vainly its suffering soul for peace has soughtAnd found it not.For nothing, ...
Into the world's most high and holy placesMen carry selfishness, and graft and greed.The air is rent with warring of ...
The man of God stands, on the Sabbath-day,Warning the sinners from the broad highwayThat leads to death. He rolls his ...
False! Good God, I am dreaming!No, no, it never can be—You who are so true in seeming,You, false to your ...
"Black sheep, black sheep, have you any wool?""Yes, sir—yes, sir: three bags full.""I don't want any New Thought," said he,"Or ...
IThere is no picturesqueness and no glory,No halo of romance, in war to-day.It is a hideous thing; Time would turn ...
I have been down in the darkest water—Deep, deep down where no light could pierce;Alone with the things that are ...
If Christ came questioning His world to-day, (If Christ came questioning,) 'What hast thou done to glorify thy God, Since ...
I heard such a curious storyOf Santa Claus. Once, so they say,He set out to find what people were kind,Before ...
You who are loudly crying out for peace,You who are wanting love to vanquish hate.How is it in the four ...
They tell me new methods now govern the Muses,The modes of expression have changed with the times;That low is the ...
In the old wars of the world there were camp-followers,Women of ancient sins who gave themselves for hire,Women of weak ...
Back of each soldier who fights for France,Aye, back of each woman and manWho toils and prays through these long ...
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.—St. John the Divine.The Spirit says ...
Our thoughts are molding unmade spheres,And, like a blessing or a curse,They thunder down the formless years,And ring throughout the ...
I saw a Christian, a temperance man,Casting his ballot one day at the polls:One who believes he does what he ...
Oh! it is not just the men who face the guns,Not the fighters at the Front alone, to-dayWho will bring ...
Who is a Christian in this Christian land Of many churches and of lofty spires? Not he who sits in ...
The times are not degenerate. Man's faithMounts higher than of old. No crumbling creedCan take from the immortal soul the ...
Whoever was begotten by pure love,And came desired and welcome into life,Is of immaculate conception. HeWhose heart is full of ...
Long have I searched, Cathedral shrine, and hall,To find a symbol, from the hand of art,That gave the full expression ...
I see the tall church steeples,They reach so far, so far,But the eyes of my heart see the world's great ...
All in the dark we grope along, And if we go amiss We learn at least which path is wrong, ...
Now ere I slept, my prayer had been that I might see my way To do the will of Christ, ...
BOOK FIRST. I. ALL valor died not on the plains of Troy. Awake, my Muse, awake! be thine the joy ...
I see the tall church steeples, They reach so far, so far, But the eyes of my heart see the ...
When this world's pleasures for my soul sufficed, Ere my heart's plummet sounded depths of pain, I call on Reason ...
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