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 ...
And now, when poets are singing Their songs of olden days, And now, when the land is ringing With sweet ...
On the sea of life they floated,Brothers twain in manhood's pride,And the good ship "Temperance" bore them,Safely o'er the stormy ...
Last was the wealth I carried in life's pack—Youth, health, ambition, hope and trust but TimeAnd Fate, those robbers fit ...
The Muse said, Let us sing a little songWherein no hint of wrong,No echo of the great world need, or ...
I: BLINDWhen first the shadows fell, like prison bars,And darkness spread before me, like a pall,I cried out for the ...
"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 ...
What are these nameless mysteries,These subtleties of life and death,That bring before our spirit eyesThe loved and lost; or, like ...
Dying? I am not dying. Are you mad?You think I need to ask for heavenly grace?I think you are a ...
IThere is no picturesqueness and no glory,No halo of romance, in war to-day.It is a hideous thing; Time would turn ...
Not Atlas, with his shoulders bent beneath the weighty world,Bore such a burden as this man, on whom the Gods ...
On the white throat of useless passionThat scorched my soul with its burning breathI clutched my hands in murderous fashion,And ...
When Christmas bells are swinging above the fields of snow,We hear sweet voices ringing from lands of long ago.And etched ...
There was a little comet who lived near the Milky Way!She loved to wander out at night and jump about ...
In the journey of life, as we travel alongTo the mystical goal that is hidden from sight,You may stumble at ...
Sometimes when I have dropped asleep, Draped in soft luxurious gloom, Across my drowsy mind will creep ...
Adieu, Romauld! But thou canst not forget me.Although no more I haunt thy dreams at night,Thy hungering heart forever must ...
In the faint flush upon the tell-tale cheek,And in the pallor that succeeds it; byThe quivering lid of an averted ...
In the dark night, from sweet refreshing sleepI wake to hear outside my window-paneThe uncurbed fury of the wild spring ...
Be not dismayed, be not dismayed when deathSets its white seal upon some worshipped face.Poor human nature for a little ...
Now, dear, it isn't the bold things,Great deeds of valour and might,That count the most in the summing up of ...
Our thoughts are molding unmade spheres,And, like a blessing or a curse,They thunder down the formless years,And ring throughout the ...
Wise men tell me thou, O Fate,Art invincible and great. Well, I own thy prowess; stillDare I flount thee, with ...
I am a river flowing from God's seaThrough devious ways. He mapped my course for me;I cannot change it; mine ...
We are the army stevedores, lusty and virile and strong,We are given the hardest work of the war, and the ...
Here now forevermore our lives must part.My path leads there, and yours another way.What shall we do with this fond ...
When you launch your bark for sailingOn the sea of life, O youth!Clothe your heart and soul and spiritIn the ...
You may thrill with the speed of your thoroughbred steed,You may laugh with delight as you ride the ocean,You may ...
Use all your hidden forces.Do not miss the purpose of this life,and do not wait for circumstanceto mold or change ...
What can be said in New Year rhymes, That's not been said a thousand times?The new years come, the old ...
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