The Way To Arcady (Henry Cuyler Bunner Poems)
OH, what's the way to Arcady, To Arcady, To Arcady;Oh, what's the way to Arcady, Where all the leaves are merry?Oh, what's ...
OH, what's the way to Arcady, To Arcady, To Arcady;Oh, what's the way to Arcady, Where all the leaves are merry?Oh, what's ...
NEW YORK, July 20, 1883.DEAR GIRL:The town goes on as thoughIt thought you still were in it;The gilded cage seems ...
I would that all men my hard case would know,How grievously I suffer for no sin:I, Adolphe Culpepper Ferguson, for ...
Smile on, thou new-come Spring-if on thy breeze The breath of a great man go wavering up And out of this world's ...
Past the Red Box at Vesey streetSwing two strong tides of hurrying feet,And up and down and all the dayRises ...
IN the heyday of my years, when I thought the world was young,And believed that I was old-at the very ...
No longer, 0 scholars, shall PlautusBe taught us.No more shall professors be partialTo Martial.No ninnyWill stop playing "shinney"For Pliny.Not even ...
A.D. 1425.I have let the world go.That's the door that closedBehind the holy father. I am shrived.All's done-all's said-all's shaped ...
It was an old, old, old, old lady,And a boy that was half-past three;And the way that they played togetherWas ...
The dawn came in through the bars of the blind,-- And the winter's dawn is gray,-- And said, "However you cheat your ...
I gaze, while thrills my heart with patriot pride,Upon the exquisite skin, rose-flushed and creamy;The perfect little head; on either ...
YE CRYER:Here's a reward for who'll find Love!Love is a-strayingEver since Maying,Hither and yon, below, above,All are seeking Love!YE HAND-BILL:Gone ...
October--A Wood"I know what you are going to say," she said,And she stood up, looking uncommonly tall:"You are going to ...
I take my chaperon to the play--She thinks she's taking me.And the gilded youth who owns the box,A proud young ...
Tell me what within her eyesMakes the forgotten Spring arise,And all the day, if kind she looks,Flow to a tune ...
WHAT does he plant who plants a tree? He plants a friend of sun and sky; He plants the flag ...
Oh, for You that I never knew ! -Now that the Spring is swelling,And over the way is a whitening ...
When he is old and past all singing,Grant, kindly Time, that he may hearThe rhythm through joyous Nature ringing,Uncaught by ...
They sent him round the circle fair,To bow before the prettiest there.I'm bound to say the choice he madeA creditable ...
As to a bird's song she were listening,Her beautiful head is ever sidewise bent;Her questioning eyes lift up their depths ...
There is no shadow where my love is laid;For (ever thus I fancy in my dreamThat wakes with me and ...
I would not have you so kindly,Thus early in friendship's year-A little too gently, blindly,You let me near.So long as ...
Although a curtain of the salt sea-mistMay fall between the actor and our eyes -Although he change, for dear and ...
She was a beauty in the daysWhen Madison was President;And quite coquettish in her ways-On cardiac conquests much intent.Grandpapa, on ...
She might have known it in the earlier Spring,— That all my heart with vague desire was stirred;And, ere the Summer ...
Love must kiss that mortal's eyesWho hopes to see fair Arcady.No gold can buy you entrance there;But beggared Love may ...
A pitcher of mignonetteIn a tenement's highest casement,-Queer sort of flower-pot-yetThat pitcher of mignonetteIs a garden in heaven set,To the ...
Not a kiss in life; but one kiss, at life's end, I have set on the face of Death in trust ...
Not a kiss in life; but one kiss, at life's end,I have set on the face of Death in trust ...
Death, when thou shalt come to meOut of thy dark, where she is now,Let no faint perfume cling to theeOf ...
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