Creation (Mary Weston Fordham Poems)
O Earth, adore creative power,That made and gave to man as dower,This world of beauty rare,With hills and vales of ...
Mary Weston Fordham Poems on Fairness (9 Poems)
Magnolia (Mary Weston Fordham Poems)
Magnolia! "Pale city of the dead,"Adown thy gravelled walks I tread,Thy marble pillars looming high,Thy polished shafts around me lie.With ...
Chicago Exposition Ode (Mary Weston Fordham Poems)
Columbia, all hail!May thy banner ne'er be furledTill Liberty, with her beauteous rays,Enlighten all the world.Columbia, to theeFrom every clime ...
The Saxon Legend Of Language (Mary Weston Fordham Poems)
The earth was young, the world was fair,And balmy breezes filled the air,Nature reposed in solitude,When God pronounced it "very ...
Alaska (Mary Weston Fordham Poems)
With thy rugged, ice-girt shore,Draped in everlasting snow,Thou'rt enthroned a queen.Crown of moss and lichen grey,Frosted o'er with ocean spray,All ...
The Valentine (Mary Weston Fordham Poems)
Lady with thine eyes of beautyRivaling cerulean flowers,Where the love-beams seem to linger,Throughout youth's bright, sunny hours.With thy smile of ...
The Snowdrop (Mary Weston Fordham Poems)
How comest thou, O flower so fair,To bud and bloom while wintry airStill hovers o'er the land?How comest from the ...
The Grafted Bud (Mary Weston Fordham Poems)
Life's stormy surge had scarcely touchedHer blooming, beauteous brow,When rudely torn from earthly bliss,A budded, broken flower.Methinks I see her ...
To The Eagle (Mary Weston Fordham Poems)
Fain would I rival theeMonarch of birdsSoaring so loftilyUp to the clouds!Spreading thy pinionsAnd mounting on air,Ethereally floatingDivinely and fair.Where ...