Cadet Grey – Canto III (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
IWhere the sun sinks through leagues of arid sky, Where the sun dies o'er leagues of arid plain,Where the dead ...
IWhere the sun sinks through leagues of arid sky, Where the sun dies o'er leagues of arid plain,Where the dead ...
June 4th! Do you know what that date means? June 4th! By this air and these pines!Well,--only you know how ...
I'm sitting alone by the fire, Dressed just as I came from the dance,In a robe even YOU would admire,-- ...
(ALKALI STATION)Cicely says you're a poet; maybe,--I ain't much on rhyme:I reckon you'd give me a hundred, and beat me ...
Where the short-legged EsquimauxWaddle in the ice and snow,And the playful Polar bearNips the hunter unaware;Where by day they track ...
I. THE PERSONIFIED SENTIMENTALAFFECTION'S charm no longer gilds The idol of the shrine;But cold Oblivion seeks to fill ...
(OPENING OF THE PACIFIC RAILROAD)What was it the Engines said,Pilots touching,--head to headFacing on the single track,Half a world behind ...
The shades of night were falling fast,As through an Eastern village passedA youth who bore, through dust and heat,A stencil-plate, ...
(MUD FLAT, 1860)So you're back from your travels, old fellow, And you left but a twelvemonth ago;You've hobnobbed with Louis ...
Above the pines the moon was slowly drifting,The river sang below;The dim Sierras, far beyond, upliftingTheir minarets of snow.The roaring ...
Last night, above the whistling wind, I heard the welcome rain,--A fusillade upon the roof, A tattoo on the pane:The ...
Bells of the Past, whose long-forgotten musicStill fills the wide expanse,Tingeing the sober twilight of the PresentWith color and romance:I ...
Over the chimney the night-wind sangAnd chanted a melody no one knew;And the Woman stopped, as her babe she tossed,And ...
Affection's charm no longer gilds The idol of the shrine;But cold Oblivion seeks to fill Regret's ambrosial wine.Though Friendship's offering ...
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