Would You Care? (Madge Morris Wagner Poems)
All day on my pillow I wearily lay, With a stabbing pain at my heart,With throbbing temples, and a feverish thirst Burning, ...
All day on my pillow I wearily lay, With a stabbing pain at my heart,With throbbing temples, and a feverish thirst Burning, ...
I've a beautiful home, where I live in my dreams,So joyous and happy-an Eden it seems;All beautiful things in nature ...
Nay, do not ask me, Sweet, if I have loved before, Or if, mayhap, in other years to be,A younger, fairer ...
Thou brown, bare-breasted, voiceless mystery,Hot sphinx of nature, cactus-crowned, what hast thou done?Unclothed and mute as when the groans of ...
"It is life to die," the muse has sung, The prophet words have rung from pole to pole,The trust, the hope ...
Close on my heart was resting A sunny golden head,As the dim gray of the twilight Crept round with noiseless tread."Tell me ...
Only a sentence earnest spoke, With never a thought to word it,Fell like balm from the sea of calm, On the aching ...
Drop! drop! drop! With a ceaseless patter fall,With a sobbing sound on the sodden ground, And the gray clouds over all.Dost weep ...
Bring flowers, bring flowers, thou Queen of the Spring, Sweet flowers to garland the earth,Exotics to bloom in the mansions of ...
Kind teacher, henceforth be it mine,To kneel at friendship's sacred shrine,And hope's bright budding flowers entwine Into a garland for they ...
I gathered you, sweet little rosebud, With a dew crown encircling your head;Now, out of the window I toss you, Shriveled, and ...
Good-bye! Good-bye!Once pledged we fondly o'er and o'erThat nought should cloud our love's bright sky;Once thought we that we could ...
They came in the hush of the midnight, In the glare of the noonday startOut from the graves we made them-- The ...
I love thee for the soul that shines Within thine eyes' soft beaming,From out whose depths the prisoned fires Of intellect are ...
Is your heart bowed down with sorrow; Does your lot the hardest seem;Think you of a brighter morrow, Of a fairer future ...
I give thee back thy fickle heart, Thy faithless vows I've spurned,I bury deep the blighted hopes That in my bosom burned.Yet ...
O! take your pale camellias back; Their soft leaves, waxen whiteAnd odorless, too ill accord With my dark mood to-night.I do not ...
O love, do not call me a star!'Tis too cold and bright, and too farAway from your arms; I would ...
With odds all against him, struggling to gain,From fortune a name, with life to maintain,Toiling in sunshine, toiling in rain,Never ...
Have you slept in a tent alone-a tentOut under the desert sky-Where a thousand thousand desert milesAll silent 'round you ...
A hearse all draped in mourning, With white plumes overhead,Bearing a little coffin-- Somebody's baby's dead.Upon the velvet cover Some hand has placed ...
O blame me not for the cruel words In a moment of madness said;The shadow that fell upon my life Is cold ...
Only a "something light as air," Which never words could tell,Yet feel you that between your lives A cloud has strangely fell;Though ...
Life of my life, my soul's best part,I could not live without thee now;And yet this love must break my ...
O, let us leave this world behind-Its gains, its loss, its praise, its blame-Not seeking fame, nor fearing shame,Some far ...
Fairies whisper, every whisper, In the silence of the night,And he catches the soft murmurs Floating in the starry light.And they tell ...
When dead, no imposing funeral rite, Nor line of praise I crave;But drop your tears upon my face-- Put flowers on my ...
Farewell my darling, fare thee well, Life hence has only dearth;With thee it were too sweet a dream-- Too much Heaven, for ...
O, speak not hastily the word Thine ear from idle tongues has heard.If false the tale thou couldst recall, How hard, and ...
Beautiful maiden, So daintily fair,Thy rose-hued lips, Thy soft, flowing hair,Symmetric perfection, Sweet, winning face,The charms that thou wearest A palace might grace;And yet ...
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