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 ...
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 ...
Gayly a knight set forth against the foe,For a fair face had shone on him in dreams;A voice had stirred ...
The spare-room windows wide were raised, And you could look that summer dayOn pastures green, and sunny hills, And low rills wandering ...
How the sumac banners bent, dripping as if with blood, What a mournful presence brooded upon the slumbrous air;A mocking-bird screamed ...
As on a waveless sea, a vessel strikes Upon a treacherous rock;Waking the sailors from their happy dreams By the swift, terrible ...
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