A Fatal Impress (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
A little leaf just in the forest's edge,All summer long, had listened to the wooingOf amorous brids that flew across ...
A little leaf just in the forest's edge,All summer long, had listened to the wooingOf amorous brids that flew across ...
IOh, for the power to call to aid, of mineOwn humble Muse, the famed and sacred nine.Then might she fitly ...
Sit still, I say, and dispense with heroics!I hurt your wrists? Well, you have hurt me.It is time you found ...
Fire! Fire! Fire! the cry rang out on the night air,The roving winds caught it up, and the very heavens ...
The world has crowned a thousand kings:But destiny has keptHer weightiest hour of kingly powerTo offer England's son.The rising bell ...
In the fair morning of his life, When his pure heart lay in his breast, Panting, ...
The devil in hell gave a festival,And he called his imps from their wine—Called them up from the ruddy cup,And ...
I was smoking a cigarette;Maud, my wife, and the tenor, McKey,Were singing together a blithe duet,And days it were better ...
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 ...
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 ...
Nay seer, I do not doubt thy mystic lore,Nor question that the tenor of my life,Past, present and the future, ...
The danger of war, with its havoc of life, The danger of ocean, when storms are rife, The danger of ...
Don't drink, boys, don't!There is nothing of happiness, pleasure, or cheer,In brandy, in whiskey, in rum, ale, or beer.If they ...
To J. J. H., Of KentuckyGathering brands from the burning,Plucking them out of the fire,Lifting the sheep that have wandered,Out ...
Wherefore in dreams are sorrows borne anew,A healed wound opened, or the past revived?Last night in my deep sleep I ...
Here now forevermore our lives must part.My path leads there, and yours another way.What shall we do with this fond ...
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 ...
Were I man grown, I'd standWith clean heart, soul, and hand,An honor to this land.I would be good and true.I ...
In the still jungle of the senses layA tiger soundly sleeping, till one dayA bold young hunter chanced to come ...
God gave him passions, splendid as the sun,Meant for the lordliest purposes; a partOf nature's full and fertile mother heart,From ...
Uncle Rob says,That once on a time the fire fliesWere stars with the others up in the skies.They used to ...
God, what a world, if men in street and mart,Felt that same kinship of the human heart,Which makes them, in ...
How does Love speak? In the faint flush upon the tell-tale cheek, And in the pallor that succeeds it; by ...
BOOK FIRST. I. ALL valor died not on the plains of Troy. Awake, my Muse, awake! be thine the joy ...
A little leaf just in the forest's edge, All summer long, had listened to the wooing Of amorous brids that ...
As yon great Sun in his supreme condition Absorbs small worlds and makes them all his own, So does my ...
All roads that lead to God are good. What matters it, your faith, or mine? Both centre at the goal ...
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