The Brothers, (Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney Poems)
Mr. FISHER AMES BUELL, died at Hartford, May 19th, 1861, aged 25, andMr. HENRY R. BUELL, on his voyage to ...
Mr. FISHER AMES BUELL, died at Hartford, May 19th, 1861, aged 25, andMr. HENRY R. BUELL, on his voyage to ...
Sailors there are of the gentlest breed, Yet strong, like every goodly thing;The discipline of arms refines, And the wave gives tempering. The ...
Afflictions do not come alone,A voice attends the rod;By both he to his saints is known,A Father and a God!Let ...
If I had money, Simonides, I would not feel such painAs I do now, when in the company of the ...
Ever present in Thy sight, To Thy gracious will I bow,For Thou wilt conduct me right, Though I know not always how.What ...
That Christ who o'er His Lazarus wept, And said, "The dead again shall rise!"Is "the first fruits of them that slept," Their ...
So then the lessons of all--teaching Time Shall not be fruitless; but the sons of men Will live to ripen into age, ...
"E venni dal martirio a questa pace."These words the poet heard in Paradise,Uttered by one who, bravely dying here,In the ...
Alas! for those, whose bigot zeal would fainCompress and crush, with Procrustean force,All energies, all spirits fine and coarse,All tempers, ...
THE SWEETNESSE OF RETIREMENT,OR The Happinesse of a Private Life.The Segregation.THE ARGUMENT. True Blisse! Thou know'st but Few, to Few ...
Bring the wine-cup, companions! and let it go round! At its bottom good humor and mirth will be found; Bring ...
_P_. Farewell to Europe, and at once farewellTo all the follies which in Europe dwell;To Eastern India now, a richer ...
ACT III. A cell in the Wartburg Monastery. Enter PRIOR PEPPERCORN with the casket.PRIOR.So! Glittering shell where doubtless shines concealedAn ...
D'VAS near de state of Nashfille, In de town of Tennessee, Der Breitmann vonce vas quarderd Mit all his cavallrie. ...
Preludes.I The Impossibility Lo, Love's obey'd by all. 'Tis right ...
IWhere West Point crouches, and with lifted shield Turns the whole river eastward through the pass;Whose jutting crags, half silver, ...
The Lights burn dim and make weird shadow-play,The white walls of the ward are changed to grey,Down the long aisle ...
Untiring all the weary dayThe widow toiled with care,And scarcely cleared her furrowed browWhen came the hour of prayer;The voices, ...
Ho! the sky's as blue as blazes an' the sun is shinin' bright, An' the dicky birds is singin' over'ead,An' ...
Children of Fate, in the same breath Created were they, Love and Death. Such fair creations ne'er were seen, Or ...
Now, be the Hokey Fly! sez Peter Begg."Suppose 'e comes 'ome with a wooden leg. Suppose 'e isn't fit to ...
He was tall and tough and stringy, with the shoulders of an axeman,Broad and loose, with greenhide muscles, and a ...
Of course, the familiar rustling of programs, My hair mussed from behind by a grand gesture Of mink. A little ...
IStrike not thy dog with a stick!I did it yesterday:Not to undo though I gainedThe Paradise: heavy it rainedOn Kobold's ...
'Tis the part of a wise Man to examine the means of attaining the end, that he be not foiled ...
Why mourns my beauteous Friend, bereft?Her Saviour and her Heav'n are left:Her lovely Babe is there at Rest,In Jesus' Arms ...
In prime of years, when I was young,I took delight in youthful ways,Not knowing then what did belongUnto the pleasures ...
Wish ye, sons of Alma Mater, Long lost laurels to replace? Listen to a stout old Pater, Once ...
Thou waterest her furrows, thou sendest rain into the little valleys thereof; thou makest it soft with the drops of ...
Mrs Munn, the midwife - Mother Munn they called her --Wallowed in the world's woes; sickness ne'er appalled her. She ...
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