Dance Of The Seasons (Harriet Monroe Poems)
I-SpringAllegroWake ! wake !Out of the snow and the mist,In rain-wet wind-blown gauzeOf amber and amethyst,Cometh Spring like a girl.Trembling ...
Harriet Monroe Poems on World (20 Poems)
From the “Commemoration Ode” (Harriet Monroe Poems)
WASHINGTONWHEN dreaming kings, at odds with swift paced time, Would strike that banner down,A nobler knight than ever writ or rhyme With ...
Night In State Street (Harriet Monroe Poems)
Art thou he?-The seer and sage, the hero and lover-yea,The man of men, then away from the haughtydayCome with me!Ho-ho! ...
For A Child (Harriet Monroe Poems)
E. H. M.Nov. 17th, 1890-Feb. 13th, 1904Still he lies,Pale, wan, and strangely wise.Under the white coverletHe lies here sleeping yet,Though ...
Our Canal (Harriet Monroe Poems)
To Colonel Goethals and the Other Laborers in the Canal ZoneIn lazy laughing Panama-O flutter of ribbon 'twixt the seas!-The ...
The Turbine (Harriet Monroe Poems)
To W. S. M.Look at her-there she sits upon her throneAs ladylike and quiet as a nun!But if you cross ...
Two Capitals-1910 (Harriet Monroe Poems)
MoscowWhite Moscow of the pearly towers,And golden domes for praise,And chiming hours!Red Moscow of the Kremlin walls,And bloody battle ways,And ...
To Idleness (Harriet Monroe Poems)
Sweet Idleness, you linger at the doorTo lead me down through meadows cool with shade-Down to the brook, over whose ...
The Childless Woman (Harriet Monroe Poems)
O Mother of that heap of clay, so passive on your breast,Now do you stare at death, woman, who yesterday ...
The Humming-Bird (Harriet Monroe Poems)
What a boom! boom!Sounds among the honeysuckles!Saying, "Room! room!Hold your breath and mind your knuckles!"And a fairy birdling brightFlits like ...
The Night-Blooming Cereus (Harriet Monroe Poems)
FLOWER of the moon!Still white is her brow whom we worshiped on earth long ago;Yea, purer than pearls in deep ...
A Play Festival In Ogden Park (Harriet Monroe Poems)
Oh gay and shining June time!Oh meadow brave and bright,Abloom with little children,All tossing in the light!They dance and circle ...
Myself (Harriet Monroe Poems)
What am I? I am Earth the mother,With all her nebulous memories;And the young Day, and Night her brother,And every ...
In Tuolumne Meadows (Harriet Monroe Poems)
I Love to sit in the sunAnd watch the foaming LyellLeap over its granite bed.I love these days that runOn ...
Washington (Harriet Monroe Poems)
Oh, hero of our younger race!Great builder of a temple new!Ruler, who sought no lordly place!Warrior who sheathed the sword ...
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Look on the dead. Stately and pure he liesUnder the white sheet's marble folds. For himThe solemn bier, the scented ...
A Garden In The Desert (Harriet Monroe Poems)
So light and soft the days fall-Like petals one by oneDown from yon tree whose flowers allMust vanish in the ...
Rubens (Harriet Monroe Poems)
Here you are, grand old sensualist!And here are the three goddesses displaying their charms to Paris.It was all one to you ...
In The Beginning (Harriet Monroe Poems)
WHEN sunshine met the wave, Then love was born;Then Venus rose to save A world forlorn.For light a thousand wings Of joy ...
The Blue Ridge (Harriet Monroe Poems)
STILL and calm,In purple robes of kings,The low-lying mountains sleep at the edge of the world.The forests cover them like ...