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 ...
Grace Greenwood Poems on Youth (25 Poems)
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 ...
The Gold-Seeker (Grace Greenwood Poems)
'T was upon a Southern desert, and beneath a burning sky,That a pilgrim to the gold-clime sunk, o'erwearied, down to ...
A Fragment (Grace Greenwood Poems)
THOU darest not love me! - thou canst only seeThe great gulf set between us. Hadst thou love,'T would bear ...
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, ...
L’Envoi (Grace Greenwood Poems)
I KNOW these lays will come to theeLike flowers along thy pathway strown,And wear, to thy young, generous eyes,A grace ...
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 ...
Emilie Plater (Grace Greenwood Poems)
0 RAINBOW of the battle-storm!Methinks thou 'rt gleaming on my sight;I see thy fair and fragile formAmid the thick cloud ...
Lumination For Victories In Mexico (Grace Greenwood Poems)
LIGHT Up thy homes, Columbia,For those chivalric menWho bear to scenes of warlike strifeThy conquering arms again,Where glorious victories, flash ...
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 Wife’s Appeal (Grace Greenwood Poems)
I'M thinking, Charles, 't is just a year,Or will be, very soon,Since first you told me of your love,One glorious ...
Siri, The Swimmer – Miss Bremer (Grace Greenwood Poems)
WHEN evening with its breezy airSucceeds the sultry day,Let others wear, in crowds and glare,The tranquil hours away;But be it ...
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 ...
The First Doubt (Grace Greenwood Poems)
My heart is chilled with sudden fear,And heavy on my spirit liesThe doubt that breathed from thy harsh tones,And looked ...
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 ...
The Lost Heart (Grace Greenwood Poems)
"SAY, have you found the heart I lostAs you and I, last night,The fragrant, new-mown meadow crossed,Beneath the sweet starlight?""I ...
To A Poet (Grace Greenwood Poems)
TENDER and pale the young moon shone, -The time of dreams stole o'er the earth,Stilling the greenwood's sounds of mirth,Hushing ...
Therese (Grace Greenwood Poems)
A ROSE once pressed against thy lips,Then gayly flung to me,Is all the gift I treasure upIn memory of thee;It ...
Love’s Emblems (Grace Greenwood Poems)
THERE was a rose, that blushing grewWithin my life's young bower;The angels sprinkled holy dewUpon the blessed flower.I glory to ...
Valentine To Helen Irving (Grace Greenwood Poems)
AGAIN thou comest like a star of brightness, -As pure and tender, as serene and fair;I bear thy tones of ...
Song II (Grace Greenwood Poems)
Though now it were madness to cherishThe dream that enchained us so long,Yet shall it not utterly perish,For thou hast ...
Valentine To One Who Knows (Grace Greenwood Poems)
THEY told me, when I knew thee first,Thou wert not made for loving,That next St. Valentine's would seeThy truant heart ...
Valentine To Miss C. M. Sedgwick (Grace Greenwood Poems)
O GLORY-WEDDED! To thy browA coronal is given,For Which, when song and Greece were young,The very gods had striven.O, find'st ...