A Rich Man’s Reverie (Marietta Holley Poems)
The years go by, but they little seemLike those within our dream;The years that stood in such luring guise,Beckoning us ...
The years go by, but they little seemLike those within our dream;The years that stood in such luring guise,Beckoning us ...
"I leave my child to Heaven." And with these wordsUpon her lips, the Lady Mildred passedUnto the rest prepared for her ...
She sat in the cottage door, and the fair June moon looked down On a face as pure as its own, ...
The Squire was none of your common men Whose ancestors nobody knows,But visible was his lineage In the lines of his Roman ...
High on a rocky cliff did once a gray old castle stand,From whence rough-bearded chieftains led their vassals--ruled the land.For centuries ...
A long, low waste of yellow sandLay shining northward far as eye could reach,Southward a rocky bluff rose highBroken in ...
I sit in the cloud and the darkness Where I lost you, peerless one;Your bright face shines upon fairer lands, Like the ...
Last night she came unto me, And kneeling by my side,Laid her head upon my bosom, My beautiful, my bride;My lost one, ...
In his arm-chair, warmly cushioned,In the quiet earned by labor,Life's reposeful Indian summer,Grandpa sits; and lets the paperLie upon his ...
Gayly a knight set forth against the foe,For a fair face had shone on him in dreams;A voice had stirred ...
How can I be to blame? Is it my fault I am fair?I did not fashion my features, Or brush the gold ...
On the shore I sit and gaze Out on the twilight sea,For my ship may come, though many days I have waited ...
Put the crown of your love on my forehead, Its sweet links clasped with a kiss,And all the great monarchs of ...
Now while the crimson light fades in the west, And twilight drops her purple shadows low--We stand with Memory on the ...
Oh, the days are growing longer;So rang the jubilant song of the swallow; I come a-bringing beauty into the land,The sky ...
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