Meg’s Curse (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
The sun rode high in a cloudless skyOf a perfect summer morn.She stood and gazed out into the street,And wondered ...
The sun rode high in a cloudless skyOf a perfect summer morn.She stood and gazed out into the street,And wondered ...
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 ...
A granite rock on the mountain side Gazed on ...
We met at night in the season's hight,Mid revel and mirth and song.I looked in your eye with a mute, ...
The sweet young Spring walks over the earth,It flushes and glows on moor and lea;The birds are singing in careless ...
Two harvesters walked through the rows of corn,Down to the ripe wheat fields, one morn.Both were fair, in the flush ...
When the first sere leaves of the year were falling,I heard, with a heart that was strangely thrilled,Out of the ...
We two were lovers, the Sea and I; We plighted our troth 'neath a summer sky.And all through the riotous, ...
It may be you've seen her eyes,Dark and deep like midnight skies;You mayhap have seen them flashUnderneath the drooping lash,And ...
I am all tired out, said the mouth, with a pout,I am all tired out with talk.Just wait, said the ...
Hollow a grave where the willows wave,And lay him under the grasses,Where the pitying breeze bloweth up from the seas,And ...
After the May time and after the June timeRare with blossoms and perfume sweet,Cometh the round world's royal noon time,The ...
I said this morning, as I leaned and threwMy shutters open to the Spring's surprise,"Tell me, O Earth, how is ...
All the world was wearying,All the world was sad;Everything was shadow-filled;Things were going bad.Then a rumour stirred all heartsAs a ...
I saw a mother give wine to her boy—The rain-drops fall and fall:The pride of his parents, a household joy,A ...
Don't bring into the lodge-roomAnger, and spite, and pride.Drop at the gate of the templeThe strife of the world outside.Forget ...
Three million women without matesIn lonely homes on earth!And Cupid sighs at heaven's gates,Where many a spirit ego waitsIts call ...
Who travels alone with his eye on the heights,Though he laughs in the daytime, oft weeps through the nights;For courage ...
Born in the flesh, and bred in the bone,Some of us harbour stillA New World pride: and we flaunt or ...
In the face of the sun are great thunderbolts hurled,And the storm-clouds have shut out its light;But a Rainbow of ...
As the ambitious sculptor, tireless, liftsChisel and hammer to the block at hand,Before my half-formed character I standAnd ply the ...
He never made a fortune, or a noise In the world where men are seeking after fame; But he had ...
In the rapture of life and of living, I lift up my head and rejoice, And I thank the great ...
The stork flew over a town one day, And back of each wing an infant lay; One to a rich ...
We two were lovers, the Sea and I; We plighted our troth 'neath a summer sky. And all through the ...
Columbia, fair queen in your glory! Columbia, the pride of the earth! We crown you with song- wreath and story; ...
How baseless is the mightiest earthly pride, The diamond is but charcoal purified, The lordliest pearl that decks a monarch's ...
As yon great Sun in his supreme condition Absorbs small worlds and makes them all his own, So does my ...
In the warm yellow smile of the morning, She stands at the lattice pane, And watches the strong young binders ...
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