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 ...
In the unquiet night,With all her beauty bright, She walketh my silent chamber to and fro;Not twice of the same mind,Sometimes ...
I might strive as well to melt to softness the soulless breast Of some fair and saintly image, carven out of ...
I am thinking of fern forests that once did towering stand,Crowning all the barren mountains, shading all the dreary land.Oh, ...
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 ...
It stands alone on a haunted shore,With curious words of deathless lore On its massive gate impearled;And its carefully guarded mystic ...
Oh, the days are growing longer;So rang the jubilant song of the swallow; I come a-bringing beauty into the land,The sky ...
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 ...
I turn the key in this idle hour Of an ivory box, and looking, lo--See only dust--the dust of a flower; The ...
Again I see that May moon shine,Dost thou remember, soul of mine?I held your hand in mine, you know,And as ...
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