New-York in 1826. (George Pope Morris Poems)
Two years have elapsed since the verse of S. W. Met your bright eyes like a fanciful gem;With that kind of ...
Two years have elapsed since the verse of S. W. Met your bright eyes like a fanciful gem;With that kind of ...
The music's done. Be quiet, Mr. Durie!Your bell and whistle put me in a fury!Don't ring up yet, sir--I've a word ...
Nay, Mr. Simpson!--'Tis not kind--polite--To shut me out, sir?--I'm in such a fright!--I can not speak the lines, I'm sure!--Oh, ...
"Love me!--No.--He never loved me!"Else he'd sooner die than stainOne so fond as he has proved meWith the hollow world's ...
I've had the heart-ache many times,At the mere mention of a nameI've never woven in my rhymes,Though from it inspiration ...
He.What can a man do when a woman's perverse,And determined to have her own way? She.At the altar you took me ...
An ivy-mantled cottage smiled, Deep-wooded near a streamlet's side,Where dwelt the village-pastor's child, In all her maiden bloom and pride.Proud suitors paid ...
Twilight.Oh, boatman, haste!--The twilight hour Is closing gently o'er the lea!The sun, whose setting shuts the flower. Has looked his last upon ...
She left the port in gallant style, With sails and streamers full and free!I watched her course for many a mile Far ...
The spring-time of love Is both happy and gay,For joy sprinkles blossoms And balm in our way;The sky, earth, and ocean, In beauty ...
In the days that are gone, by this sweet-flowing water, Two lovers reclined in the shade of a tree;She was the ...
Wealth sought the bower of Beauty,Dressed like a modern beau:Just then Love, Health, and DutyTook up their hats to go.Wealth ...
I never could find a good reason Why sorrow unbidden should stay,And all the bright joys of life's season Be driven unheeded ...
William was holding in his handThe likeness of his wife!Fresh, as if touched by fairy wand,With beauty, grace, and life.He ...
"Lord of the castle! oh, where goest thou?Why is the triumph of pride on thy brow?""Pilgrim, my bridal awaits me ...
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