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 ...
IAs in the long dead days marauding hostsOf Indians came from far Siberian coasts,And drove the peaceful Aztecs from their ...
And now, when poets are singing Their songs of olden days, And now, when the land is ringing With sweet ...
IAll valor died not on the plains of Troy.Awake, my Muse, awake! be thine the joyTo sing of deeds as ...
Sit still, I say, and dispense with heroics!I hurt your wrists? Well, you have hurt me.It is time you found ...
Once over the ocean in distant lands,In an age long past, were two hostile bands—Two armies of men, both brave, ...
In the fair morning of his life, When his pure heart lay in his breast, Panting, ...
Long, long ago, ere yet our race began,When earth was empty, waiting still for man,Before the breath of life to ...
Last was the wealth I carried in life's pack—Youth, health, ambition, hope and trust but TimeAnd Fate, those robbers fit ...
ISir Knight of the world's oldest order,Sir Knight of the Army of God,You have crossed the strange mystical border,The ground ...
When night hung low and dew fell damp,There fell athwart the shadowsThe gleaming watchfires of the camp,Like glow-worms on the ...
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 ...
The man of God stands, on the Sabbath-day,Warning the sinners from the broad highwayThat leads to death. He rolls his ...
The devil to Bacchus said, one day,In a scowling, growling, petulant way,As he came from earth to hell:"There's a soul ...
In Nature's bright blossoms not always reposesThat strange subtle essence more rare than their bloom,Which lies in the hearts of ...
I: BLINDWhen first the shadows fell, like prison bars,And darkness spread before me, like a pall,I cried out for the ...
Some cawing Crows, a hooting Owl,A Hawk, a Canary, an old Marsh-Fowl,One day all meet togetherTo hold a caucus and ...
What are these nameless mysteries,These subtleties of life and death,That bring before our spirit eyesThe loved and lost; or, like ...
Dying? I am not dying. Are you mad?You think I need to ask for heavenly grace?I think you are a ...
IThere is no picturesqueness and no glory,No halo of romance, in war to-day.It is a hideous thing; Time would turn ...
Each day that I live I am persuaded anew,A maxim I long have believed in, is true.Each day I grow ...
Veils, everywhere float veils; veils long and black,Framing white faces, oft-times young and fair,But, like a rose touched by untimely ...
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 ...
Give us a call! We keep good beer,Wine, and brandy, and whiskey here;Our doors are open to boys and men,And ...
Not Atlas, with his shoulders bent beneath the weighty world,Bore such a burden as this man, on whom the Gods ...
You do but jest, sir, and you jest not well,How could the hand be enemy of the arm, Or seed ...
We two were lovers, the Sea and I; We plighted our troth 'neath a summer sky.And all through the riotous, ...
There was a little comet who lived near the Milky Way!She loved to wander out at night and jump about ...
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