The Present Age (Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Poems)
Say not the age is hard and cold--I think it brave and grand;When men of diverse sects and creedsAre clasping ...
Say not the age is hard and cold--I think it brave and grand;When men of diverse sects and creedsAre clasping ...
Grandma, he said, must be lonesome,And mamma has gone to her.But the question lies unansweredIn our little Jamie's mind,Why she ...
In one grand but gentle chorus,Floating to the starry dome,Came the words that brought them nearer,Words that told of "Home, ...
But they heard no cry of anguishBreak through that fiery wall,With rigid brow and silent lipsHe was seeking Odin's hall.Through ...
And this little badge became the wedgeWhich broke their galling chain. And lifted the gloomy shadowsThat overspread my life,And flooding ...
For me a dimness slowly creepsAround earth's fairest light,But heaven grows clearer to my view,And fairer to my sight.It may ...
Do you see this grain of sandLying loosely in my hand?Do you know to me it broughtJust a simple loving ...
Were our vision clearer far,In this sin-dimmed world of ours,Would we not more thankful beFor the love that sends us ...
And over the shadows of my lifeStole the light of a peace divine.Oh! then my task was a sacred thing,How ...
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