A Broadway Idyl (Mary Eliza Perine Tucker Lambert Poems)
For hours I stood upon The Bridge,1Which looms like a volcanic ridge,Above a scathing fire below.A flaming crater of burning ...
For hours I stood upon The Bridge,1Which looms like a volcanic ridge,Above a scathing fire below.A flaming crater of burning ...
How slowly glide the hours by, the minutes hours seem;Ah! can such misery be real, or is it but a ...
I have pined for the sight of the sea for years-Pined amid hoping, and wished amid fears;And my heart grew ...
How can I give thee up, my child, my dearest, earliest born,While fond hopes are 'round thee clustered, like bright ...
Now the bitter pangs of hope deferredO'er us no longer reign,-But the very depths of our hearts are stirredWith a ...
NO, let it stay. It speaks but truth:My Autumn's day is dawning.The dream is past; sweet dream of youth.Hair, I ...
I am weary, Mother, and I fain would restBeside thee, in the cold and silent tomb-The rayless pathways of a ...
On a verdant summer isletI beheld a wondrous scene,In a trance of dreamy waking-Burial of a Fairy Queen!First I heard ...
Many long years ago, I loved a youth,Who seemed the soul of honor and of truth-He charmed my heart with ...
You know, dear, that this vicious world is ever prone to see,Most glaring faults and blemishes, in evey purity;And thus, ...
UPON THE LOSS OF HER CHILDREN'S PHOTOGRAPHS AT SEAHast thou no mercy, wind, that thou should'st tear from me,All that ...
Life's pathway to me is dreary;I am ill, and cold, and weary;Would my lonely walk were done,And ...
" DID you call me, Father?" Ah no, 'twas the surge,Swelling a requiem, wailing a dirge:Back, maiden! create still thy ...
Laughing, merry, childish voices, woke us in their eager glee,When the rosy blush of morning in the east we scarce ...
Poverty, remorseless spectre,Reigns throughout our once fair land,And he wields no fancy sceptre,In his iron-covered hand.Stifled sighs our hearts are ...
Life is full of mirth and pleasure,But all joy is on the wing-Base alloy corrodes each treasure,And enjoyment hides a ...
LONELY and dreary was the day,Lonely and weary swelled my heart,Fainting for need of Hope's bright ray -For without Hope ...
Write to thine eyes? Why, my poor penQuails at the unequal task;I fear you don't appreciateThe mighty boon you ask.Thine ...
Her eyes are bright as sparkling stars,And as the violet blue;In them celestial beauty lies,The soul-light flashing through.No painter, how ...
Gaze not upon my outside, friend,With scorn or with disgust-Judge not, until you condescendTo look beneath the crust.Rough and unsightly ...
The Lord in risen ! In the early dawnNature awakens to the glad surprise,And incense sweet from blossoming vale and ...
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