Beechenbrook – II (Margaret Junkin Preston Poems)
The feathery foliage has broadened its leaves, And June, with its beautiful mornings and eves, Its magical atmosphere, breezes and blooms, Its woods ...
The feathery foliage has broadened its leaves, And June, with its beautiful mornings and eves, Its magical atmosphere, breezes and blooms, Its woods ...
The lull of the Winter is over; and Spring Comes back, as delicious and buoyant a thing, As airy, and fairy, and ...
'Tis Autumn,--and Nature the forest has hung With arras more gorgeous than ever was flung From Gobelin looms,--all so varied, so rare, As ...
Ye, who by the couches of languishing ones, Have watched through the rising and setting of suns,-- Who, silent, behind the close ...
"My Douglass! my darling!--there once was a time, When we to each other confessed the sublime And perfect sufficiency love could bestow, On ...
"I am weary and worn,--I am hungry and chill, And cuttingly strikes the keen blast o'er the hill; All day I have ...
A CHRISTMAS LAY.I. Ah! the happy Christmas times! Times we all remember;-- Times that flung a ruddy glow O'er the gray December;-- Will they never ...
"Break, my heart, and ease this pain-- Cease to throb, thou tortured brain; Let me die,--since he is slain, --Slain in battle! Blessed brow, ...
I How much would I care for it, could I know That when I am under the grass or snow, The ravelled garment ...
APRIL 9TH, 1865.I. Unconquered captive!--close thine eye, And draw the ashen sackcloth o'er, And in thy speechless woe deplore The fate that would not ...
I read the marble-lettered name, And half in bitterness I said,"As Dante from Ravenna came, Our poet came from exile-dead."And yet, had ...
Float aloft, thou stainless banner! Azure cross and field of light;Be thy brilliant stars the symbol Of the pure and true and ...
Only a private — and who will care When I may pass away,Or how, or why I perish, or where I mix ...
We do accept thee, heavenly Peace! Albeit thou comest in a guise Unlooked for—undesired, our eyesWelcome through tears the sweet releaseFrom war, ...
Thank God for such a Hero!--Fearless hold His diamond character beneath the sun, And brighter scintillations, one by one, Come flashing from it. ...
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