Grandpa’s Christmas (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
In his great cushioned chair by the fenderAn old man sits dreaming to-night,His withered hands, licked by the tender,Warm rays ...
In his great cushioned chair by the fenderAn old man sits dreaming to-night,His withered hands, licked by the tender,Warm rays ...
Said Willie to Tom "Let us hie awayTo the wonderful Island of Endless Play.It lies off the border of 'No ...
She's the jauntiest of creatures, she's the daintiest of misses,With her pretty patent leathers or her alligator ties,With her eyes ...
Never since the race was started,Had a boy in any clime,Cause to be so thankful-hearted,As the boys of present time.Not ...
Not Atlas, with his shoulders bent beneath the weighty world,Bore such a burden as this man, on whom the Gods ...
In Vanity Fair, as we bow and smile,As we talk of the opera after the weather,As we chat of fashion ...
We plucked a red rose, you and IAll in the summer weather;Sweet its perfume and rare its bloom,Enjoyed by us ...
Dear Love, where the red lilies blossomed and grewThe white snows are falling;And all through the woods where I wandered ...
Little by little the year grows old,The red leaves drop from the maple boughs;The sun grows dim, and the winds ...
Who thinks how desolate and strangeTo me must seem the autumn's change,When housed in attic or in chest,A lonely and ...
I have written this day down in my heart As the sweetest day in the season; From all of the ...
My heart is like a little bird That sits and sings for very gladness. Sorrow is some forgotten word, And ...
If all the year was summer-time, And all the aim of life Was just to lilt on like a rhyme ...
When shall I hear the thrushes sing, And see their graceful, round throats swelling? When shall I watch the bluebirds ...
Bohemia, o'er thy unatlassed borders How many cross, with half-reluctant feet, And unformed fears of dangers and disorders, To find ...
In the rapture of life and of living, I lift up my head and rejoice, And I thank the great ...
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