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 ...
I am an outcast, sinful and vile I know, But what are you, my lady, so fair, and proud, and high?The ...
Sitting alone in the windy tower, While the waves leap high, or are low at rest,What does she think of, hour ...
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 ...
Last night she came unto me, And kneeling by my side,Laid her head upon my bosom, My beautiful, my bride;My lost one, ...
I.There's a tear in your eye, little Sybil, Gathering large and slow;Oh, Sybil, sweet little Sybil, What are you thinking of now?Push ...
I am thinking of fern forests that once did towering stand,Crowning all the barren mountains, shading all the dreary land.Oh, ...
Oh, I am the siren, the siren of the sea, The sea, the wondrous sea, that lies forevermore before;I stand a ...
Clear shone the moon, my mansion walls Towered white above the wood,Near, down the dark oak avenue An humble cottage stood.My gardener's ...
The spare-room windows wide were raised, And you could look that summer dayOn pastures green, and sunny hills, And low rills wandering ...
So all things come to our mind at last, He is close by your side in the twilight gloom, And you two ...
How can I be to blame? Is it my fault I am fair?I did not fashion my features, Or brush the gold ...
How the sumac banners bent, dripping as if with blood, What a mournful presence brooded upon the slumbrous air;A mocking-bird screamed ...
I know not where you wait for me in all your maiden sweetness,Sweet soul in whom my life will find ...
Not far away does that bright city stand, 'Tis but the mist o'er its dividing stream,That wraps the glory of its ...
As on a waveless sea, a vessel strikes Upon a treacherous rock;Waking the sailors from their happy dreams By the swift, terrible ...
It stands alone on a haunted shore,With curious words of deathless lore On its massive gate impearled;And its carefully guarded mystic ...
In a waste of yellow sand, on the brow of a dreary hill, A slight little slip of a rose struggled ...
Now while the crimson light fades in the west, And twilight drops her purple shadows low--We stand with Memory on the ...
Again I see that May moon shine,Dost thou remember, soul of mine?I held your hand in mine, you know,And as ...
My heart sings like a bird to-nightThat flies to its nest in the soft twilight, And sings in its brooding bliss;Ah! ...
Now sinks the Summer sun into the sea; Sure never such a sunset shone as this, That on its golden wing has ...
When enwrapped in rosy pleasure, Our careless pulses beat, With a rhythm sweet, sweet,To the music's merry measure.When world waves rise around ...
Oh! the day was dark and dreary, For clouds swept o'er the sun,The burden of life seemed heavy, And its warfare never ...
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