The Water Ouzel (Harriet Monroe Poems)
Little brown surf-bather of the mountains!Spirit of foam, lover of cataracts, shaking your wings in falling waters!Have you no fear ...
Harriet Monroe Poems (51 Poems)
These Two (Harriet Monroe Poems)
They died these two &mdashThe little boys I knew &mdashOne at Gallipoli and one in France.Long ago &mdashOh, twenty years ...
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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 ...
Winter (Harriet Monroe Poems)
Earth bears her sorrow gladly, like a nun,Her young face glowing through the icy veil.The storms that threaten her, the ...
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 ...
The Fortunate One (Harriet Monroe Poems)
BESIDE her ashen hearth she sate her down, Whence he she loved had fled,-His children plucking at her sombre gown And calling ...
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 ...
Lake Louise (Harriet Monroe Poems)
Bluer than Helen's eyes she liesUnder the blue cloud-drifting skies;A daughter fair of light and airDropped among warrior mountains there.White ...
The Wonder Of It (Harriet Monroe Poems)
How wild, how witch-like weird that life should be!That the insensate rock dared dream of me,And take to bursting out ...
At The Ship’s Rail (Harriet Monroe Poems)
The blue sea bends to the shipLike a dancer with skirts of lace-Wide diaphanous laces that curl and dipIn the ...
Titanic Requiem (Harriet Monroe Poems)
Sleep softly in your ocean bed,You who could grandly die !Our fathers, who at Shiloh bled,Accept your company.O sons of ...
March (Harriet Monroe Poems)
I See the snow-drops flutterTheir white wings in the gale.I hear the robin utterOn high his gallant tale.Look where the ...
The Message Of The Wind (Harriet Monroe Poems)
The wind comes riding down from heaven.Ho! wind of heaven, what do you bring?Cool for the dawn, dew for the ...
Wings (Harriet Monroe Poems)
Pearl-gray is the sky,And high within it, sailing by,Three sea-gulls fly.Pearl-white are theyAgainst the sky's obscurer gray-Sea-foam astray.Gulls, sea-gulls white,Drift ...
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 ...
The Garden (Harriet Monroe Poems)
Hiding under the hill,Heavy with trailing robes and tangled veils of green,Till only its little haggard face was visible,The garden ...
New-Born (Harriet Monroe Poems)
She is so wee,So wise and dearHer eyes can see,Her ears can hear,The flowers that growBelow the snow,The birds that ...
Melodies (Harriet Monroe Poems)
The patter of a baby's feetUpon the floor,His babble at the door-Ah, these are sounds too sweet, too sweet!Blue sky, ...
At The Grand Ca (Harriet Monroe Poems)
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Mountain Song (Harriet Monroe Poems)
I have not where to lay my head:Upon my breast no child shall lie;For me no marriage feast is spread:I ...