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 ...
We were a baker's dozen in the house—six women and six menBesides myself; and all of us had knownThose benefits ...
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 ...
There sat two glasses, filled to the brim, On a rich man's table, rim to rim. One was ruddy and ...
By the castle-gate my lady stands,Viewing broad acres and spreading lands.Hill and valley and mead and plainAre all her own, ...
Where are the temperance people?Well, scattered here and there:Some gathering in their produceTo show at the autumn fair;Some threshing wheat ...
I was smoking a cigarette;Maud, my wife, and the tenor, McKey,Were singing together a blithe duet,And days it were better ...
Give us a call! We keep good beer,Wine, and brandy, and whiskey here;Our doors are open to boys and men,And ...
When Christmas bells are swinging above the fields of snow,We hear sweet voices ringing from lands of long ago.And etched ...
There is grief in the cup!I saw a proud mother set wine on the board;The eyes of her son sparkled ...
Dost thou not tire, Isaura, of this play?"What play?" Why, this old play of winning hearts!Nay, now, lift not thine ...
All nail the dawn of a new day breaking,When a strong-armed nation shall take awayThe weary burdens from backs that ...
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, ...
IWe cannot choose our sorrows. One there wasWho, reverent of soul, and strong with trust,Cried, 'God, though Thou shouldst bow ...
Saw you the youth, with the face like the morning,Refilling the glass, that foamed white as the sea?Heard you the ...
It is a common fate-a woman's lot-To waste on one the riches of her soul,Who takes the wealth she gives ...
Hadst thou a ship, in whose vast hold lay storedThe priceless riches of all climes and lands,Say, wouldst thou let ...
England, father and mother in one,Look on your stalwart son.Sturdy and strong, with the valour of youth,Where is another so ...
This is the world's stupendous hour—The supreme moment for the raceTo see the emptiness of power,The worthlessness of wealth and ...
Seeking for happiness we must go slowly;The road leads not down avenues of haste;But often gently winds through by ways ...
The subtle beauty of this day Hangs o'er me like a fairy spell, And care and grief have ...
There are two kinds of people on earth to-day; Just two kinds of people, no more, I say.Not the sinner ...
Above the din of commerce, above the clamor and rattleOf labor disputing with riches, of Anarchists' threats and groans,Above the ...
Alone she sat with her accusing heart,That, like a restless comrade frightened sleep,And every thought that found her, left a ...
God gave him passions, splendid as the sun,Meant for the lordliest purposes; a partOf nature's full and fertile mother heart,From ...
If all the ships I have at sea Should come a-sailing home to me, From sunny lands, and lands of ...
I prayed for riches, and achieved success; All that I touched turned into gold. Alas! My cares were greater and ...
Though with gods the world is cumbered, Gods unnamed, and gods unnumbered, Never god was known to be Who had ...
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