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 ...
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 ...
WHAT siren joy from thy high trust hath won thee,0 Poet of to-day? - thou still unheard,Though struggling nations cast ...
WHEN first we met, beloved, rememberest thouHow all my nature was athirst and faint?My soul's high powers lay wasting still ...
THE spring is here again, mother! she bursts upon our sight,Like a young girl in her bridal dress, all bloom, ...
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 ...
O, NO, I never will grow old;Though years on years roll by,And silver o'er my dark brown hair,And dim my ...
0 RAINBOW of the battle-storm!Methinks thou 'rt gleaming on my sight;I see thy fair and fragile formAmid the thick cloud ...
LIGHT Up thy homes, Columbia,For those chivalric menWho bear to scenes of warlike strifeThy conquering arms again,Where glorious victories, flash ...
THE tropic stars are looking downUpon the midnight deep;The wind blows fresh, as on our courseRight gallantly we sweep;For thee ...
A BATTLE-SHOUT for HungaryOnce more shall wake the day, -A joyful summons to the brave,To rally for the fray;To gird ...
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 ...
My heart is chilled with sudden fear,And heavy on my spirit liesThe doubt that breathed from thy harsh tones,And looked ...
TENDER and pale the young moon shone, -The time of dreams stole o'er the earth,Stilling the greenwood's sounds of mirth,Hushing ...
THERE was a rose, that blushing grewWithin my life's young bower;The angels sprinkled holy dewUpon the blessed flower.I glory to ...
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