Love Or Fame: Part III: Fame (Fannie Isabelle Sherrick Poems)
Oh what is fame! a flower that dies at eve, A golden mist that subtle fancies weave, An unknown star ...
Oh what is fame! a flower that dies at eve, A golden mist that subtle fancies weave, An unknown star ...
And what is life?--a pleasure and a pain, A vision of the sun--a day of rain. And what is love?--a ...
One eve she stood upon a lonely lea And watched the deep'ning shadows grim That threw their forms athwart the ...
The sunlight fell with a golden gleam On the waves of the rippling rill; The pansies nodded their purple heads; ...
O beautiful woman, too well we know The terrible weight of thy woman's woe, So great that the world, in ...
Above his head the cypress waves Its dark green drooping leaves; The sunlight through its branches wide Where bright birds ...
A beautiful form and a beautiful face, A winsome bride and a woman's grace, So fair and sweet it were ...
The sun was hid all day by clouds, The rain fell softly down; A cold gray mist hung o'er the ...
Under the cross in the Southern skies, Where the beautiful night like a shadow lies, A fair young life went ...
The shadow of death is around us all, And life is a sorrowful thing; For the winds sweep by with ...
Low at my feet there lies to-night A crushed and withered rose; Within its heart of fading red No crimson ...
Two dark-brown eyes looked into mine Two eyes with restless quiver; A gentle hand crept in my own Beside the ...
Catching the sunbeams, oh, wee dimpled child, Gleefully laughing because they are bright; Knowing, ah! never, my beautiful pet, Ne'er ...
A tiny drop of crystal dew That fell from baby eyes of blue; A shining treasure, there it lay For ...
O crimson-tined flowers That live when others die, What thoughtless hand unloving Could ever pass you by? You are the ...
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