To The Mock-Bird (Mary Weston Fordham Poems)
Bird of the woodland, sing me a song,Fain would I list to thee, all the day long.Out from thy cosy ...
Bird of the woodland, sing me a song,Fain would I list to thee, all the day long.Out from thy cosy ...
Sitting there, right over the abyss,With the snow hanging down by his head,His elbows propped on a black crag,The devil ...
The white sea-foam still plays on golden shore, The sun through tears makes many a jewelled bow, The trees around the home ...
A bard of wine and merriment,I was compelled by mighty fateTo learn the lessons practicalOf moralizing Lell:Once full of love's ...
II have lain in the sun,I have toiled as I might,I have thought as I would,And now it is night.IIMy ...
Yet once again, O Spring, Spring sweet and fair! In fresh March morning with the birds I sing, The groves have had ...
Passion? not hers! who held me with pure eyes:One hand among the deep curls of her brow,I drank the girlhood ...
I.'Do you not hear the Aziola cry?Methinks she must be nigh,'Said Mary, as we sateIn dusk, ere stars were lit, ...
Poet-Astronomer, who night by nightGod's star-page scanned, yet failed to read aright,Where throughout space His alphabet of sunsSpells Life, in ...
1 In vain to me the smiling Mornings shine,2 And reddening Phobus lifts his golden fire;3 The birds in vain ...
Strange bird,His song remains secret.He worked too hard to read books.He never heard how Sherwood AndersonGot out of it, and ...
The squares empty and sailinto the distance like ships. In the green moonlight shudderthe tall silhouettes of towers. Fragrant lindens like hearbsnestle ...
Song hath a catalogue of lovely things Thy kind hath oft defiled,--whose spite misleads The world too often!--where the poet reads, As in ...
The linnet is here, and the lark, and the yellowhammer,And the thrush that sings so clear at the break of ...
My lady dearly loves a pretty bird,That sings, and echoes back her gentle tone;Were I, too, near her, never should ...
WITH pipe and flute the rustic Pan Of old made music sweet for man; And wonder hushed the warbling bird, ...
At foot of yonder wood-crowned hill there stands a little cot,And nigh a crystal stream, where blooms the sweet forget-me-not.The ...
The groves were God's first temples, and to-day Should man yet worship there, were he unwise? The gray old woods whose mighty ...
Dawn glimmers white beyond the burning hillWhere sunbeams light a fire in every tree.The morning bird is singing clear and ...
SPRING came in with a red-wing's feather And yellow clumps of the wild marshmallow--O happy bird, can you tell me whetherIn ...
In the hand-fluttering fearfully-Lonely and helpless,-poor little thing!In the bush-peeping out cheerfully,Two together, gaily they sing!Why is it best to ...
In the blue heaven the clouds will come and go,Scudding before the gale, or drifting slowAs galleons becalmed in Sundown ...
I am an arrow that a child shot throughAn apple tree in bloom beside the sea;A cloud of apple blossoms, ...
In the evening at my grandmother's farmThe frightened fields appear in flashes of distant lightening.The swaying trees pray. A long menacing ...
MY prow is tending toward the west,Old voices growing faint, dear faces dim, And all that I have loved the bestFar ...
"He is my friend," I said,-- "Be patient!" Overhead The skies were drear and dim; And lo! the thought of him Smited on my heart--and ...
Within a wood I strayed at sunset hour, The leaves were still, and red upon the ground, The trees themselves stood steadfast ...
I think the dead are tender. Shall we kiss? --My lady laughs, delighting in what is.If she but sighs, a ...
For the first time ever, and only now(Long waiting where I should see)The tiny carved bird, the bony boughStart sharp ...
Would some little joy to-dayVisit us, heart!Could it but a moment stay,Then depart,With the flutter of its wingsStirring sense of ...
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