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 ...
Marietta Holley Poems on Love (39 Poems)
The Story Of Gladys (Marietta Holley Poems)
"I leave my child to Heaven." And with these wordsUpon her lips, the Lady Mildred passedUnto the rest prepared for her ...
The Wage Of Sin (Marietta Holley Poems)
I am an outcast, sinful and vile I know, But what are you, my lady, so fair, and proud, and high?The ...
The Lady Cecile (Marietta Holley Poems)
Sitting alone in the windy tower, While the waves leap high, or are low at rest,What does she think of, hour ...
Roses Of June (Marietta Holley Poems)
She sat in the cottage door, and the fair June moon looked down On a face as pure as its own, ...
Motives (Marietta Holley Poems)
I said that I would see Her once, to curse her fair, deceitful grace,To curse her for my life-long agony; But when ...
The Brothers (Marietta Holley Poems)
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 ...
The Fisher’s Wife (Marietta Holley Poems)
A long, low waste of yellow sandLay shining northward far as eye could reach,Southward a rocky bluff rose highBroken in ...
The Lady Maud (Marietta Holley Poems)
I sit in the cloud and the darkness Where I lost you, peerless one;Your bright face shines upon fairer lands, Like the ...
My Angel (Marietta Holley Poems)
Last night she came unto me, And kneeling by my side,Laid her head upon my bosom, My beautiful, my bride;My lost one, ...
Ione (Marietta Holley Poems)
I might strive as well to melt to softness the soulless breast Of some fair and saintly image, carven out of ...
Harry The First (Marietta Holley Poems)
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 ...
Gloria The True (Marietta Holley Poems)
Gayly a knight set forth against the foe,For a fair face had shone on him in dreams;A voice had stirred ...
The Song Of The Siren (Marietta Holley Poems)
Oh, I am the siren, the siren of the sea, The sea, the wondrous sea, that lies forevermore before;I stand a ...
Summer Song Of The Swallow (Marietta Holley Poems)
You will journey many a weary day and long, Ere you will see so restful and sweet a place,As this, my ...
The Fairest Land (Marietta Holley Poems)
'Twas a bleak dull moor that stretched beforeThe low stone porch of the cottage door,And standing there was youth and ...
The Sewing-Girl (Marietta Holley Poems)
I asked to see the dead man's face, As I gave the servant my well-filled basket;And she deigned to lead me, ...
His Place (Marietta Holley Poems)
So all things come to our mind at last, He is close by your side in the twilight gloom, And you two ...
Jenny Allen (Marietta Holley Poems)
I never shall hear your voice again, Your voice so gentle and lowBut the thought of you, Jenny Allen, Will go with ...
The Coquette (Marietta Holley Poems)
How can I be to blame? Is it my fault I am fair?I did not fashion my features, Or brush the gold ...
Little Nell (Marietta Holley Poems)
Clasp your arms round her neck to-night, Little Nell,Arms so delicate, soft and white,And yet so strong in love's strange might;Clasp ...
Autumn. (Marietta Holley Poems)
How the sumac banners bent, dripping as if with blood, What a mournful presence brooded upon the slumbrous air;A mocking-bird screamed ...
The Messenger (Marietta Holley Poems)
Is his form hidden by some cliff or crag, Or does he loiter on the shelving shore?We know not, though we ...
Waiting (Marietta Holley Poems)
I know not where you wait for me in all your maiden sweetness,Sweet soul in whom my life will find ...
The Unseen City (Marietta Holley Poems)
Not far away does that bright city stand, 'Tis but the mist o'er its dividing stream,That wraps the glory of its ...
The Flight (Marietta Holley Poems)
Here in the silent doorway let me linger One moment, for the porch is still and lonely;That shadow's but the rose ...
The Criminal’s Betrothed (Marietta Holley Poems)
As on a waveless sea, a vessel strikes Upon a treacherous rock;Waking the sailors from their happy dreams By the swift, terrible ...
Spring (Marietta Holley Poems)
The sides of the hill were brown, but violet buds had started In gray and hidden nooks o'erhung by feathery ferns ...
The Sea-Captain’s Wooing (Marietta Holley Poems)
Put the crown of your love on my forehead, Its sweet links clasped with a kiss,And all the great monarchs of ...
Sleep (Marietta Holley Poems)
Come, gentle sleep, with the holy night, Come with the stars and the white moonbeams,Come with your train of handmaids bright, Blessed ...