A Victim Of Modern Inventions (Hannah S Battersby Poems)
Since quite a boy Hal Gradient had beenNoted for ingenuity--betweenThe hours when not on active duty heImmersed in some new ...
Since quite a boy Hal Gradient had beenNoted for ingenuity--betweenThe hours when not on active duty heImmersed in some new ...
Of all the blessings which kind heaven bestows,From infancy to life's most lengthened close,The one, far greater than all earthly ...
An angel spirit wingingThrough aerial space her flight,O'er peaceful, sleep-bound natureThus sang one autumn night:What are those hosts advancingIn legions ...
Oh! the image and the fable of the Sphynx! What lessons do they teach, What sermons do they preachOf the riddle and ...
Well I remember, many years ago,Deep in the forest shade of Fontainebleau,With six dear girls in lovely virgin prime,Partaking of ...
Self discipline and perseverance strong,Effort on effort, with endurance long,Make kings of men, who subjugate and swayStern empire over self ...
(_Erected on the Thames Embankment, 1878_).Thou reverend relic from a far-off clime,Of ancient days, triumphant over Time.Thou ocean traveller, brought ...
A lovely, happy, peaceful home, Within the fond embraceOf circling mountains and a stream Of calm meandering grace.The Susquehanna's limpid flow, With the ...
Your beauteous gift of lovely brilliant flowers,My dear young friend, has cheered my suffering hours,With loved charged telegrams from nature's ...
I would gaze down the vista of past years,In fancy see to-night,A loved one passed from sight,But whose blest memory ...
Up, sisters! morn is breaking Over the mountains grey,As, borne on silvered pinions, She ushers in the day.She comes, and at her ...
O palace of marvellous beauty and light,Like a shrine of enchantment thou art to the sight,As sparkling with pride 'neath ...
Died at Longueuil, August 2nd, 1884AGED 6 YEARS AND 7 MONTHS.A fair child of promise, just nipped in the bud, To ...
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