Destiny (Eloise Alberta Bibb Poems)
IIn far-off England, years ago, There dwelt a wise old sageWho, from the book of future years Could tare for ...
IIn far-off England, years ago, There dwelt a wise old sageWho, from the book of future years Could tare for ...
I'Twas eve in sunny Italy;The world was bright as earth can be,In that delightful month of June, When sun, and ...
IThe hermit sat within his cave, A prey to anxious care;Distress sat gravely on his brow, And suffering slumbered there.His ...
IThe day is o'er and twilight's shade,Is darkening forest, glen and glade;It steals within the old church door,And casts its ...
Her Marriage:ISee! the moon is smiling Down her brightest beams,And the leaflets sleeping, Whisper in their dreams;Hear the merry music, ...
IVirgin of the vestal flame, Numa's child so chaste and fair,Ah! Floronia is thy name! Goddess of the raven hair;Weepest ...
I"Toil! toil! toil!"What curse is this sent from the hand of God,That man must work till placed beneath the sod, ...
IO, that the years had language! time would tell,Of one bright night the moon has loved so well, For oft ...
The sun has sunk 'neath yonder distant hill,A hush pervades the world and all is still; And twilight shadows lengthen ...
The night hung o'er Virginia's forest wild, Stately with beauty unsurpassed beforeShone the full moon serenely; and the windAs it ...
Lost! lost! lost!The famed and gracious Anne is no more,Her sceptre broken, now her power is o'er,Ye judges, who, to-day ...
The morn hath risen clear and bright,The sun displays his glorious light; Through heaven's vault of azure dye,Where peeps the ...
Oh, for a drink, to-night,Mixed by some god of might,A draught of strange device,Though of exorbitant price,To give this tortured ...
Alas! that such a soul should taste of death,Such lofty genius fade for want of breath,Such wit find refuge 'mong ...
O Death! why dost thou steal the great,With grudging like to strongest hate,And rob the world of giant minds,For whom ...
So tired! so weary — The race — has been long,And the paths have been rugged, The winds have been ...
The early spring's sweet blush,Like a maiden's beauteous flush,Mounts the cheek of earth and sky,With radiance soft and shy.She comes ...
We are sighing, for time is flying, We are going from those so dear;Friends are severed, though 'round us gathered, ...
How many scenes, O sun,Hast thou not shone upon!How many tears, O light,Have dropped before thy sight!How many heart-felt sighs,How ...
Lord, all I am and hope to be,I humbly offer, King, to thee!When clouds arise, thy guidance send,Accept my life, ...
(To Dr. L. A. Martinet, editor of the New Orleans Crusader.)O thou who never harbored fear,Who ever scorned her visage ...
(To the sweet bard of The Woman's Club, Miss Alice Ruth Moore.) I peer adown a shining group, Where sages ...
Then, fare you well, fare you well,Life for us has just begun;Don't regret, ne'er forgetThis dear class of ninety one.Hours ...
Some bright thoughts visit me to-night, Of a lady fair to see,Who hides a faithful heart from sight, In a ...
(Editor of "The Freeman," Indianapolis, Indiana.)Know ye the man whom God has blessed,With gifts peculiar to the restOf men who ...
Leona, dear, twelve months ago,Your pensive soul I scarce did know;A summer's touch we did requireTo wake the strings of ...
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