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 ...
The gate was thrown open, I rode out alone,More proud than a monarch who sits on a throne.I am but ...
The four winds of earth, the North, South, East, and West,Shrieked and groaned, sobbed and wailed, like the soul of ...
The world has crowned a thousand kings:But destiny has keptHer weightiest hour of kingly powerTo offer England's son.The rising bell ...
All through the Castle of High-bred Ease,Where the chief employment was do-as-you-please,Spread consternation and wild despair.The queen was wringing her ...
The harsh King—Winter—sat upon the hills, And reigned and ruled the earth right royally. He locked the rivers, ...
There sat two glasses, filled to the brim, On a rich man's table, rim to rim. One was ruddy and ...
There's a terrible steed that rests not night nor day,But onward and onward, for ever away,Through hamlet, through village, through ...
The bold young Autumn came riding alongOne day where an elm-tree grew."You are fair," he said, as she bent down ...
There was a kingdom known as the Mind,A kingdom vast as fair,And the brave king, Brain, had the right to ...
Adieu, Romauld! But thou canst not forget me.Although no more I haunt thy dreams at night,Thy hungering heart forever must ...
Ho! for the day in the whole year the brightest!Long may it live in the heart of the nation!Long may ...
Dost thou not tire, Isaura, of this play?"What play?" Why, this old play of winning hearts!Nay, now, lift not thine ...
I saw a fair youth, with a brow broad and white,And an eye that was beaming with intellect's light:And his ...
I saw a youth, one of God's favored few,Crowned with beauty, and talents, and health;He had climbed the steep pathway, ...
The cunningest thing that a baby can doIs the very first time it plays peek-a-boo;When it hides its pink little ...
I called to the wind of the Winter,As he sped like a steed on his way,"Oh! rest for awhile on ...
Have you heard of the king of Candy land?Well, listen while I sing,He has pages on every hand,For he is ...
Here, in the heart of the world,Here, in the noise and the din,Here, where our spirits were hurledTo battle with ...
Above the din of commerce, above the clamor and rattleOf labor disputing with riches, of Anarchists' threats and groans,Above the ...
Oh, an ugly thing is an iron rail,Black, with its face to the dust.But it carries a message where winged ...
AIR—"O SUSANNAH!"Ye soldiers in the temperance cause,Our work is but begun.Oh! sit not down in idlenessAnd think the field is ...
They stood at the garden gate.By the lifting of a lidShe might have read her fateIn a little thing he ...
The mighty forces of mysterious spaceAre one by one subdued by lordly man.The awful lightning that for eons ranTheir devastating ...
The year has but one June, dear friend;The year has but one June;And when that perfect month doth end,The robin's ...
Columbia, fair queen in your glory! Columbia, the pride of the earth! We crown you with song- wreath and story; ...
BOOK FIRST. I. ALL valor died not on the plains of Troy. Awake, my Muse, awake! be thine the joy ...
All in the beautiful Autumn weather One thought lingers with me and stays; Death and winter are coming together, Though ...
Here, in the heart of the world, Here, in the noise and the din, Here, where our spirits were hurled ...
Do you remember the name I wore - The old pet-name of Little Queen - In the dear, dead days ...
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