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 ...
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 ...
I might strive as well to melt to softness the soulless breast Of some fair and saintly image, carven out of ...
I am thinking of fern forests that once did towering stand,Crowning all the barren mountains, shading all the dreary land.Oh, ...
You will journey many a weary day and long, Ere you will see so restful and sweet a place,As this, my ...
As on a waveless sea, a vessel strikes Upon a treacherous rock;Waking the sailors from their happy dreams By the swift, terrible ...
The sides of the hill were brown, but violet buds had started In gray and hidden nooks o'erhung by feathery ferns ...
Put the crown of your love on my forehead, Its sweet links clasped with a kiss,And all the great monarchs of ...
Oh, the days are growing longer;So rang the jubilant song of the swallow; I come a-bringing beauty into the land,The sky ...
A spirit is out to-night! His steeds are the winds; oh, list,How he madly sweeps o'er the clouds, And scatters the driving ...
"My house is thatched with violet leaves And paved with daisies fine,Scarlet berries droop over its eaves, Tall grasses round it shine;With ...
My heart sings like a bird to-nightThat flies to its nest in the soft twilight, And sings in its brooding bliss;Ah! ...
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