Pygmalion (Grace Greenwood Poems)
THE sculptor paused before his finished work, -A wondrous statue of divinest mould.Like Cytherea's were the rounded limbs,The hands, in ...
Grace Greenwood Poems on God (23 Poems)
Ariadne (Grace Greenwood Poems)
DAUGHTER Of Crete, how one brief hour,E'en in thy young love's early morn,Sends storm and darkness o'er thy bower, -O ...
Dreams (Grace Greenwood Poems)
THERE was a season when I lovedThe calm and holy night, -When, like yon silvery evening star,Just trembling on our ...
Voices From The Old World: The Famine Of 1847 (Grace Greenwood Poems)
A voice from out the Highlands,Old Scotia's mountain homes!From wild burn-side, and darksome glen,And towering steep, it comes!Is it the ...
Proem (Grace Greenwood Poems)
SOME poet dreams come to the soulIn mystic beauty clad,Unearthly in their loveliness,So exquisitely sad.Shadowy and dim and cloud-like thingsFloating ...
Spirit Longings (Grace Greenwood Poems)
I LOOK upon 1ife's glorious things,The deathless themes of song,The grand, the proud, the beautiful,The wild, the free, the strong,And ...
Darkened Hours (Grace Greenwood Poems)
WITH folded arms and drooping headI stand, my heart's blest goal unwon,My soul's high purpose unattained;But life, but life goes ...
Wanted – A Theme (Grace Greenwood Poems)
THE spring is here again, mother! she bursts upon our sight,Like a young girl in her bridal dress, all bloom, ...
Putnam (Grace Greenwood Poems)
LET the haughty smile, the low defame,The heartless worldling mock;I thank my God my fathers cameOf the good old Pilgrim ...
The Leap From The Long Bridge (Grace Greenwood Poems)
AN INCIDENT AT WASHINGTON.A woman once made her escape from the slave-prison, which stands midway between the Capitol and the ...
To A Bereaved Friend (Grace Greenwood Poems)
THY Mary hath gone from thee; - thou hast foldedFor the last time her dear form to thy breast,And on ...
I Never Will Grow Old (Grace Greenwood Poems)
O, NO, I never will grow old;Though years on years roll by,And silver o'er my dark brown hair,And dim my ...
The Army Of Reform (Grace Greenwood Poems)
YES, ye are few, - and they were few,Who daring storm and sea,Once raised upon old Plymouth rock"The anthem of ...
The Story Of A Life (Grace Greenwood Poems)
THE world smiled on me at my birth, -Beneath a rose-hued sky,Rocked on the summer waves of love,My childhood glided ...
The Last Gift (Grace Greenwood Poems)
I LEAVE thee, love! In vain hast thouThe God of life implored;My clinging soul is torn from thine,My faithful, my ...
Invocation To Mother Earth (Grace Greenwood Poems)
0 EARTH! thy face hath not the graceThat smiling Heaven did bless,When thou wert "good," and blushing stoodIn thy young ...
War-Song Of The Magyars (Grace Greenwood Poems)
A BATTLE-SHOUT for HungaryOnce more shall wake the day, -A joyful summons to the brave,To rally for the fray;To gird ...
The Restored (Grace Greenwood Poems)
Our Father, when our loved one layWith her languid eyes half closed,When the darkening shadow of the graveOn her sunny ...
Valentine To G. P. Morris (Grace Greenwood Poems)
APOLLO once had leave to travel;He sought our Yankee land,And he lionized it through,With his golden lyre in hand.Once, at ...
Fanny Forester (Grace Greenwood Poems)
A THOUSAND sweet ties bind her here, -O friend! thy fears are vain!The blessed angels will not breakSo soon this ...
To One Afar (Grace Greenwood Poems)
O'STRONG and pure of soul! - O earnest-hearted!Like stranger-pilgrims at some way-side shrineHave we two met, and mingled faith, and ...
SONG I (Grace Greenwood Poems)
No passionless creature of duty,No child of capricious delay,Our love, like the goddess of beauty,Sprang into warm life in a ...
To The Hon. D. P. King, (Grace Greenwood Poems)
WITH AN AUTOGRAPH.A CHILD of the Republic,I have never bowed the kneeTo coronets or sceptres,To rank or royalty:But when a ...