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, ...
I sit in the cloud and the darkness Where I lost you, peerless one;Your bright face shines upon fairer lands, Like the ...
I might strive as well to melt to softness the soulless breast Of some fair and saintly image, carven out of ...
I.There's a tear in your eye, little Sybil, Gathering large and slow;Oh, Sybil, sweet little Sybil, What are you thinking of now?Push ...
'Twas a bleak dull moor that stretched beforeThe low stone porch of the cottage door,And standing there was youth and ...
The spare-room windows wide were raised, And you could look that summer dayOn pastures green, and sunny hills, And low rills wandering ...
How can I be to blame? Is it my fault I am fair?I did not fashion my features, Or brush the gold ...
I.Like idle clouds our lives move on,By change and chance as idly blown;Our hopes like netted sparrows fly,And vainly beat ...
Like emerald lakes the meadows lie, And daisies dot the main;The sunbeams from the deep blue sky Drop down in golden rain,And ...
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