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 Smiling (16 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 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 ...
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 ...
Magdalena (Marietta Holley Poems)
Who falsely called thee destroyer, still white Angel of Death? Oh not a destroyer here, but a kind restorer, thou,For the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
Home (Marietta Holley Poems)
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 ...
Genieve To Her Lover (Marietta Holley Poems)
I turn the key in this idle hour Of an ivory box, and looking, lo--See only dust--the dust of a flower; The ...
Grief (Marietta Holley Poems)
What though the Eden morns were sweet with song Passing all sweetness that our thought can reach;Crushing its flowers noon's chariot ...
Summer Days (Marietta Holley Poems)
Like emerald lakes the meadows lie, And daisies dot the main;The sunbeams from the deep blue sky Drop down in golden rain,And ...