Hattie Howard Poems on Youth Archives - Famous Inspirational Poems, Poetry, Quotes

If there is one gift that I prize above others, That tinges with brightness whatever I do, And gives to the sombre ...

I hope I'm not too orthodox To give a joke away, That took me like the chicken-pox And left a debt to pay. Let ...

The salt of the earth--what a meaningful phrase From the lips of the Saviour, and one that conveys A sense of the ...

When I was young, my heart elate With ardent notions warm, I thirsted to inaugurate A spirit of reform; The universe was all awry, Philosophy ...

Fresh from piano, school, and books, A happy girl with rosy looks Young Plowman wooed and won; despite Her pretty, pouting prejudice, Her deep ...

O sunny Sangamon! thy name to me, Soft-syllabled like some sweet melody, Familiar is since adolescent years As household phrases ringing in my ...

I love the woods when the magic hand Of Spring, as if sweeping the keys Of a wornout instrument, touches the earth; When ...

Sometimes the silver cord of life Is loosed at one brief stroke; As when the elements at strife, With Nature's wild contentions rife, Uproot ...

If all the sermons good men preach And all the precepts that they teach Were gathered into one Unbroken line of silver speech, The ...

Hattie Howard Poems on Youth (9 Poems)