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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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, ...
I might strive as well to melt to softness the soulless breast Of some fair and saintly image, carven out of ...
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 ...
'Twas a bleak dull moor that stretched beforeThe low stone porch of the cottage door,And standing there was youth and ...
So all things come to our mind at last, He is close by your side in the twilight gloom, And you two ...
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 ...
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 ...
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