A Meeting (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
Quite carelessly I turned the newsy sheet;A song I sang, full many a year ago,Smiled up at me, as in ...
Quite carelessly I turned the newsy sheet;A song I sang, full many a year ago,Smiled up at me, as in ...
To J. J. H., Of KentuckyGathering brands from the burning,Plucking them out of the fire,Lifting the sheep that have wandered,Out ...
Out over childhood's borders,Manhood's brave banners unfurled,Weighed down with precepts and ordersA boy has gone into the world.Nobody thinks it ...
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 ...
In France I saw a hill—a gentle slopeRising above old tombs to greet the gleamFrom soft spring skies. Beyond these ...
I saw a mother give wine to her boy—The rain-drops fall and fall:The pride of his parents, a household joy,A ...
Oh! the maidens of France are certainly fine,And I think every fellow will stateThat the "what-you-may-call-it" coiffured wayThey put up ...
Little by little the year grows old,The red leaves drop from the maple boughs;The sun grows dim, and the winds ...
When you launch your bark for sailingOn the sea of life, O youth!Clothe your heart and soul and spiritIn the ...
I loved a maiden, long ago,She held within her hand my fate;And in the ruddy sunset glowWe lingered at the ...
I saw fond lovers in that glowThat oft-times fades away too soon:I saw and said, "Their joy I know—I, too, ...
Time flies. The swift hours hurry byAnd speed us on to untried ways;New seasons ripen, perish, die,And yet love stays.The ...
Alone she sat with her accusing heart,That, like a restless comrade frightened sleep,And every thought that found her, left a ...
As we journey along, with a laugh and a song,We see, on youth's flower-decked slope,Like a beacon of light, shining ...
ust a changing sea of colourSurging up and flowing down;And pagodas shining golden, night and noon;And a sun-burst-tinted throngOf young ...
Though with gods the world is cumbered, Gods unnamed, and gods unnumbered, Never god was known to be Who had ...
In the warm yellow smile of the morning, She stands at the lattice pane, And watches the strong young binders ...
Under the light of the silver moon We two sat, when our hearts were young; The night was warm with ...
Life is a privilege. Its youthful days Shine with the radiance of continuous Mays. To live, to breathe, to wonder ...
When my blood flows calm as a purling river, When my heart is asleep and my brain has sway, It ...
However the battle is ended, Though proudly the victor comes, With flaunting flags and neighing nags And echoing roll of ...
'By-and-bye, ' the maiden sighed - 'by-and-bye He will claim me for his bride, Hope is strong and time is ...
When Christmas bells are swinging above the fields of snow, We hear sweet voices ringing from lands of long ago. ...
Sing to me! Something of sunlight and bloom, I am so compassed with sorrow and gloom, I am so sick ...
As when the old moon lighted by the tender And radiant crescent of the new is seen, And for a ...
Changed? Yes, I will confess it - I have changed. I do not love you in the old fond way. ...
Once in the world's first prime, When nothing lived or stirred, Nothing but new-born Time, Nor was there even a ...
We two were lovers, the Sea and I; We plighted our troth 'neath a summer sky. And all through the ...
BOOK FIRST. I. ALL valor died not on the plains of Troy. Awake, my Muse, awake! be thine the joy ...
I knew it the first of the summer, I knew it the same at the end, That you and your ...
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