Custer: Book Second (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
IOh, for the power to call to aid, of mineOwn humble Muse, the famed and sacred nine.Then might she fitly ...
IOh, for the power to call to aid, of mineOwn humble Muse, the famed and sacred nine.Then might she fitly ...
In the fair morning of his life, When his pure heart lay in his breast, Panting, ...
There are not many sins when once we sift them.In actions of evolving human soulsStriving to reach high goalsAnd falling ...
Oh many a duel the world has seenThat was bittter with hate, that was red with gore,But I sing of ...
If Christ came questioning His world to-day, (If Christ came questioning,) 'What hast thou done to glorify thy God, Since ...
She waited in a rose-hued room;A wanton-hearted creature she,But beautiful and bright to seeAs some great orchid just in bloom.Upon ...
The bold young Autumn came riding alongOne day where an elm-tree grew."You are fair," he said, as she bent down ...
In the old wars of the world there were camp-followers,Women of ancient sins who gave themselves for hire,Women of weak ...
This is the song for a soldierTo sing as he rides from homeTo the fields afar where the battles areOr ...
Not like a daring, bold, aggressive boy,Is inspiration, eager to pursue,But rather like a maiden, fond, yet coy,Who gives herself ...
It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song, But the man worth while is ...
Along a narrow Moorish streetA blue-eyed soldier strode.(Ah, well-a-day.)Veiled from her lashes to her feetShe stepped from her abode,(Ah, lack-a-day.)Now ...
God gave him passions, splendid as the sun,Meant for the lordliest purposes; a partOf nature's full and fertile mother heart,From ...
One who claims that he knows about itTells me the earth is a vale of sin;But I and the bees, ...
With each strong thought, with every earnest longingFor aught thou deemest needful to thy soul,Invisible vast forces are set throngingBetween ...
The flowers have tender little soulsThat love, rejoice, aspire.Each star that on its orbit rollsFeels infinite desire.The diamond longs to ...
I love your lips when they're wet with wine And red with a wild desire; I love your eyes when ...
I prayed for riches, and achieved success; All that I touched turned into gold. Alas! My cares were greater and ...
Life is a privilege. Its youthful days Shine with the radiance of continuous Mays. To live, to breathe, to wonder ...
Not like a daring, bold, aggressive boy, Is inspiration, eager to pursue, But rather like a maiden, fond, yet coy, ...
BOOK FIRST. I. ALL valor died not on the plains of Troy. Awake, my Muse, awake! be thine the joy ...
We must not force events, but rather make The heart soil ready for their coming, as The earth spreads carpets ...
Hers was a lonely, shadowed lot; Or so the unperceiving thought, Who looked no deeper than her face, Devoid of ...
As yon great Sun in his supreme condition Absorbs small worlds and makes them all his own, So does my ...
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