Henry Timrod Poems on Sleep Archives - Famous Inspirational Poems, Poetry, Quotes

You say, as one who shapes a life,That you will never be a wife,And, laughing lightly, ask my aidTo paint ...

A fairy ringDrawn in the crimson of a battle-plain —From whose weird circle every loathsome thing And sight and sound of ...

It is time (it was time long ago) I should severThis chain — why I wear it I know not ...

'Twas merry Christmas when he came,Our little boy beneath the sod;And brighter burned the Christmas flame,And merrier sped the Christmas ...

Not to win thy favor, maiden, not to steal away thy heart,Have I ever sought thy presence, ever stooped to ...

How grace this hallowed day?Shall happy bells, from yonder ancient spire,Send their glad greetings to each Christmas fire Round which the ...

It is a place whither I've often goneFor peace, and found it, secret, hushed, and cool,A beautiful recess in neighboring ...

Another year! a short one, if it flowLike that just past,And I shall stand — if years can make me ...

The rain is plashing on my sill,But all the winds of Heaven are still;And so it falls with that dull ...

We scarce, O God! could lisp thy name,When those who loved us passed away,And left us but thy love to ...

ISleep sweetly in your humble graves,Sleep, martyrs of a fallen cause;Though yet no marble column cravesThe pilgrim here to pause.IIIn ...

Henry Timrod Poems on Sleep (11 Poems)