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 ...
THE sculptor paused before his finished work, -A wondrous statue of divinest mould.Like Cytherea's were the rounded limbs,The hands, in ...
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 ...
THERE was a season when I lovedThe calm and holy night, -When, like yon silvery evening star,Just trembling on our ...
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 ...
THE morning brightness showereth down from heaven;The morning freshness goeth up from earth;The morning gladness shineth everywhere!Soon as the sun, ...
SOME poet dreams come to the soulIn mystic beauty clad,Unearthly in their loveliness,So exquisitely sad.Shadowy and dim and cloud-like thingsFloating ...
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 ...
WHEN first we met, beloved, rememberest thouHow all my nature was athirst and faint?My soul's high powers lay wasting still ...
THOU darest not love me! - thou canst only seeThe great gulf set between us. Hadst thou love,'T would bear ...
WITH folded arms and drooping headI stand, my heart's blest goal unwon,My soul's high purpose unattained;But life, but life goes ...
LAST night, my love, I dreamed of thee,Yet 't was no dream Elysian:Draw closer to my breast, dear Blanche,The while ...
AN INCIDENT AT WASHINGTON.A woman once made her escape from the slave-prison, which stands midway between the Capitol and the ...
THY Mary hath gone from thee; - thou hast foldedFor the last time her dear form to thy breast,And on ...
DIVIDED in our lives, and yet twin-hearted!Our sad first parents shared a happier fate;When, from Love's Eden, dearest, we departed,'T ...
0 RAINBOW of the battle-storm!Methinks thou 'rt gleaming on my sight;I see thy fair and fragile formAmid the thick cloud ...
THE tropic stars are looking downUpon the midnight deep;The wind blows fresh, as on our courseRight gallantly we sweep;For thee ...
WHEN evening with its breezy airSucceeds the sultry day,Let others wear, in crowds and glare,The tranquil hours away;But be it ...
Our Father, when our loved one layWith her languid eyes half closed,When the darkening shadow of the graveOn her sunny ...
THE glorious queen of heaven, who flingsHer royal radiance round me now,As with clasped hands and upturned browI watch her ...
TENDER and pale the young moon shone, -The time of dreams stole o'er the earth,Stilling the greenwood's sounds of mirth,Hushing ...
WE have struggled up the hill-side,We stand upon its brow, -O, lovely as a dream of heaven,The scene before us ...
No passionless creature of duty,No child of capricious delay,Our love, like the goddess of beauty,Sprang into warm life in a ...
THY life is like a fountain clear, upspringingBeside the weary way I'm treading now;I love to linger near, and feel ...
A CLASSIC heaven of old thy soul, -Song, grace, and fire divine;But the heaven of a purer faith,That Christian heart ...
How like soft skies that bend at evenItalia's vales above,Thy spirit's pure and tranquil heaven,Illumed with stars of love!Thy chosen ...
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