“Knocking” (Harriet Beecher Stowe Poems)
"Behold, I stand at the door and knock."Knocking, knocking, ever knocking?Who is there?'T is a pilgrim, strange and kingly,Never such ...
"Behold, I stand at the door and knock."Knocking, knocking, ever knocking?Who is there?'T is a pilgrim, strange and kingly,Never such ...
"We fly from the cold."AWAY , away, o'er land and sea,This is now no home for me;My light wings may ...
Jim Duff was a 'native,'as wild as could be;A stealer and duffer of cattle was he,But back in his youth ...
Go to the raging sea, and say, "Be still!"Bid the wild lawless winds obey thy will;Preach to the storm, and ...
"Sound To The Onset, The Onset, The Onset!"Arouse ye! arouse ye! the foe is at large,Again and again we must ...
The roses mourn for her who sleeps Within the tomb; For her each lily-flower weeps Dew and perfume. In each neglected flower-bed Each blossom droops ...
How lovely are thy dwellings fair!O Lord of Hoasts, how dearThe pleasant Tabernacles are!Where thou do'st dwell so near.My Soul ...
On a moonlight evening, in the month of May,A number of young people were playing at croquet,They mingled together, the ...
Air — "Lily Dale"Come all kind friends, wherever you may be, Come listen to what I say,It's of a little girl ...
Like some sad spirit from an unknown shore Thou comest with two children in thine arms: Flushed, poppied Sleep, whom mortals aye ...
I know, my love, thou art false to me ; Yet I cannot love thee less :And I know I have ...
I am waiting in the desert, looking out towards the sunset,And counting every moment till we meet.I am waiting by ...
Kiss me, Miami, thou most constant one! I love thee more for that thou changest not. When Winter comes with frigid blast, Or ...
Oyez, my good people draw near, My story surpasses belief,Yet deign for a moment to hear,And assist me to catch a ...
AND this was she! the peerless and the bright,The false world's darling! she who did possess,(And held awhile in Europe's ...
Not far away does that bright city stand, 'Tis but the mist o'er its dividing stream,That wraps the glory of its ...
Of all whom grief in bonds of slaveryMost straitly holds, the veriest wretch am I:Death is my heart's desire; he ...
'Snapdragon' a Riddle for a Flower BookI am rooted in the wallOf buttress'd tower or ancient hall;Prison'd in an art-wrought ...
"Bury me on the field, boys," and away to the glorious fight,You will come again this way, boys, in your ...
Cradled in ice, and swathed in snows, And shining like a Christmas rose,Wreathed round with white chrysanthemums; Heaven in his innocent, brave ...
LAND of my father's love, my father's race,How long must I in weary exile sighTo meet thee, O my empress, ...
A MemoryThe cloud of years is upward rolledFrom memory's page, and I behold,Craignethan gray, thy ivied walls,Thy dusky vaults and ...
At Kotri, by the river, when the evening's sun is low,The waving palm trees quiver, the golden waters glow,The shining ...
I.Great GOD, how frail a Thing is Man!How swift his Minutes pass!His Age contracts within a Span;He blooms and dies ...
ASK you, "What charms first chain'd my heart,"And held me from the world apart,"Made young ambition's turmoil cease,"And blest me ...
1What precious thing are you making fastIn all these silken lines?And where and to whom will it go at last?Such ...
I.A mathematician fell madly in loveWith a lady, young, handsome, and charming:By angles and ratios harmonic he stroveHer curves and ...
On the Birth of the Prince Imperial of Francexhausted, faint, and pale, A fair young mother lies—She hears her babe's first ...
I.Light, warmth, and sprouting greenness, and o'er allBlue, stainless, steel-bright ether, raining downTranquillity upon the deep-hushed town,The freshening meadows, and ...
Nay, only look what I have found!A Sparrow's nest upon the ground;A Sparrow's nest as you may see,Blown out of ...
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