A Home Idyl (John Townsend Trowbridge Poems)
I.OVER the valley the storm-clouds blow,Dark and low;The wild air whitens with flying snow.Through the timber two lovers ride,Side by ...
I.OVER the valley the storm-clouds blow,Dark and low;The wild air whitens with flying snow.Through the timber two lovers ride,Side by ...
THE INDIAN CAMP.OUT from the Northern forest, dim and vast;Out from the mysteryOf yet more shadowy times, a pathless past,Untracked ...
SELL old Robin, do you say? Well, I reckon not today!I have let you have your way with the land,With ...
FROM the house of desolation,From the doors of lamentation,I went forth into the midnight and the vistas of the moon;Where ...
HER triumphs are over, the crownHas passed from her brow;And she smiles, "To whom now does the townMy poor laurels ...
CAPE ARUNDEL, KENNEBUNKPORT, MAINE.JUST back from a beach of sand and shells,And shingle the tides leave oozy and dank,Summer and ...
WHEN we were farm boys, years ago,I dare not tell how many,When, strange to say, the fairest dayWas often dark ...
'T IS Pleasant, indeed,As the letters readOn the guideboard at the crossing.Over the streetThe branches meet,Gently swaying and tossing.Through its ...
WRITTEN FOR J. G. WHITTIER'S SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY."I was once a barefoot boy."- J. G. WHITTIER.ON Haverhill's pleasant hills there played,Some ...
SWIFT cloud, swift light, now dark, now bright, across the landscape played;And, spotted as a leopard's side in chasing sun ...
MY boy, do you know the boy I love?I fancy I see him now;His forehead bare in the sweet spring ...
The speckled sky is dim with snow,The light flakes falter and fall slow;Athwart the hill-top, rapt and pale,Silently drops a ...
CIRCUMSTANCE.STALKING before the lords of life, one came,A Titan shape! But often he will crawl,Their most subservient, helpful, humble thrall;Swift ...
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