A Caged Mocking-Bird (John Charles McNeill Poems)
I pass a cobbler's shop along the streetAnd pause a moment at the door-step, where,In nature's medley, piping cool and ...
I pass a cobbler's shop along the streetAnd pause a moment at the door-step, where,In nature's medley, piping cool and ...
Not long the living weep above their dead,And you will grieve, Admetus, but not long.The winter's silence in these desolate ...
One sits in soft light, where the hearth is warm,A halo, like an angel's, on her hair.She clasps a sleeping ...
A century of silent sunsHave set since he was laid on sleep,And now they bear with booming gunsAnd streaming banners ...
When merry milkmaids to their cattle call At evenfall And voices rangeLoud through the gloam from grange to quiet grange,Wild waif-songs from ...
Near where the shepherds watched by nightAnd heard the angels o'er them,The wise men saw the starry lightStand still at ...
Love, should I set my heart upon a crown,Squander my years, and gain it,What recompense of pleasure could I own?For ...
A flight of doves, with wanton wings,Flash white against the sky.In the leafy copse an oriole sings,And a robin sings ...
Some time, far hence, when Autumn shedsHer frost upon your hair,And you together sit at dusk,May I come to you ...
The little loves and sorrows are my song:The leafy lanes and birthsteads of my sires,Where memory broods by winter's evening ...
When in this room I turn in pondering paceAnd find thine eyes upon me where I stand,Led on, as by ...
The home of love is her blue eyes,Wherein all joy, all beauty lies,More sweet than hopes of paradise, She being young.Speak ...
Oh, I can jest with MargaretAnd laugh a gay good-night,But when I take my Helen's handI dare not clasp it ...
What shall I bring you, sweet?A posy prankt with every April hue:The cloud-white daisy, violet sky-blue,Shot with the primrose sunshine ...
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