The Charity Ball (Hattie Howard Poems)
There was many a token of festal display, And reveling crowds who were never so gay, And, as it were AEolus charming ...
Hattie Howard Poems on Sadness (17 Poems)
A Leap Year Episode (Hattie Howard Poems)
Such oranges! so fresh and sweet, So large and lovely--and so cheap! They lay in one delicious heap, And added to the sumptuous ...
Sheridan’s Last Ride (Hattie Howard Poems)
While Phoebus lent his hottest rays To signalize midsummer days, I stood in that far-famed enclosure By thousands visited, Where, in the stillness of ...
The Sangamon River (Hattie Howard Poems)
O sunny Sangamon! thy name to me, Soft-syllabled like some sweet melody, Familiar is since adolescent years As household phrases ringing in my ...
Autumn-Time (Hattie Howard Poems)
Like music heard in mellow chime, The charm of her transforming time Upon my senses steals As softly as from sunny walls, In day's ...
Indian Summer. (Hattie Howard Poems)
Is it not our bounden duty Harsh and bitter thoughts to quell, Wild, ambitions schemes repel, And to revel in the beauty Of this ...
Mysterious (Hattie Howard Poems)
The morning sun rose bright and fair Upon a lovely village where Prosperity abounded, And ceaseless hum of industry In lines of friendly rivalry From ...
Be Courteous (Hattie Howard Poems)
Ah, yes; why not? Is one more adventitious born Than others--shekels richer, honors fuller, and all that-- That he can pass his ...
Sorrow And Joy (Hattie Howard Poems)
In sad procession borne away To sound of funeral knell, Affection's tribute thus we pay, And in earth's shelt'ring bosom lay The friend to ...
Snowflakes (Hattie Howard Poems)
Of specious weight like tissue freight The snowflakes are--in sparkle pure As the rich _parure_ A lovely queen were proud to wear; As volatile, ...
Rutha (Hattie Howard Poems)
The days are long and lonely, The weary eve comes on, And the nights are filled with dreaming Of one beloved and gone. I ...
A Prisoner (Hattie Howard Poems)
Where I can see him all day long And hear his wild, spontaneous song, Before my window in his cage, A blithe canary ...
Mount Vernon (Hattie Howard Poems)
Subdued and sad, I trod the place Where he, the hero, lived and died; Where, long-entombed beneath the shade By willow bough and ...
Syringas (Hattie Howard Poems)
The smallest flower beside my path, In loveliness of bloom, Some element of comfort hath To rid my heart of gloom; But these, of ...
The Beauty Of Nature (Hattie Howard Poems)
Oh bud and leaf and blossom, How beautiful they are! Than last year's vernal season 'Tis lovelier by far; This earth was never so ...
Sonnet (Hattie Howard Poems)
Upon my smile let none pass compliment If it but gleam like an enchanting ray Of sunshine caught from some sweet summer ...
Not Gone (Hattie Howard Poems)
They are not gone whose lives in beauty so unfolding Have left their own sweet impress everywhere; Like flowers, while we linger ...