Custer (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
BOOK FIRST. I. ALL valor died not on the plains of Troy. Awake, my Muse, awake! be thine the joy ...
BOOK FIRST. I. ALL valor died not on the plains of Troy. Awake, my Muse, awake! be thine the joy ...
In the long run fame finds the deserving man. The lucky wight may prosper for a day, But in good ...
So vast the tide of Love within me surging, It overflows like some stupendous sea, The confines of the Present ...
The uses of sorrow I comprehend Better and better at each year's end. Deeper and deeper I seem to see ...
It seemeth such a little way to me Across to that strange country - the Beyond; And yet, not strange, ...
Out from my window westward I turn full oft my face; But the mountains rebuke the vision That would encompass ...
We two were lovers, the Sea and I; We plighted our troth 'neath a summer sky. And all through the ...
Though with gods the world is cumbered, Gods unnamed, and gods unnumbered, Never god was known to be Who had ...
A little leaf just in the forest's edge, All summer long, had listened to the wooing Of amorous brids that ...
Long have the poets vaunted, in their lays, Old times, old loves, old friendships, and old wine Why should the ...
I knew it the first of the summer, I knew it the same at the end, That you and your ...
Under the light of the silver moon We two sat, when our hearts were young; The night was warm with ...
I think that the bitterest sorrow or pain Of love unrequited, or cold death's woe, Is sweet, compared to that ...
Hers was a lonely, shadowed lot; Or so the unperceiving thought, Who looked no deeper than her face, Devoid of ...
God, what a joy it is to plant a tree, And from the sallow earth to watch it rise, Lifting ...
Dear love, if you and I could sail away, With snowy pennons to the wind unfurled, Across the waters of ...
I told you the winter would go, love, I told you the winter would go, That he'd flee in shame ...
Straight through my heart this fact to-day, By Truth's own hand is driven: God never takes one thing away, But ...
You call me an angel of love and of light, A being of goodness and heavenly fire, Sent out from ...
Sitting to-day in the sunshine, That touched me with fingers of love, I thought of the manifold blessings God scatters ...
In the dawn of the day when the sea and the earth Reflected the sunrise above, I set forth with ...
As yon great Sun in his supreme condition Absorbs small worlds and makes them all his own, So does my ...
The longer I live and the more I see Of the struggle of souls towards the heights above, The stronger ...
When my blood flows calm as a purling river, When my heart is asleep and my brain has sway, It ...
Here, in the heart of the world, Here, in the noise and the din, Here, where our spirits were hurled ...
Why are thou sad, my Beppo? But last eve, Here at my feet, thy dear head on my breast, I ...
They say the world is round, and yet I often think it square, So many little hurts we get From ...
If all the year was summer-time, And all the aim of life Was just to lilt on like a rhyme ...
Do you remember the name I wore - The old pet-name of Little Queen - In the dear, dead days ...
When Tom and I were married, we took a little flat; I had a taste for singing and playing and ...
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