The Key (Edwin Ford Piper Poems)
"He turned in at the gate and asked a drink;Shabby, but neat of garment. His white hatDrooped over friendly eyes; ...
"He turned in at the gate and asked a drink;Shabby, but neat of garment. His white hatDrooped over friendly eyes; ...
Stay, lady, stay, for mercy's sake,And hear a helpless orphan's tale,Ah! sure my looks must pity wake,'Tis want that makes ...
Heaven shields and sets thee fast. It round thee fair has cast Thy virtue pure. Thus richest joy is ...
There's a little chap at our house that is being mighty good--Keeps the front lawn looking tidy in the way ...
THIS is Christ's birthday: long ago He lay upon His Mother's knee, Who kissed and blessed Him soft ...
A table cloth that's slightly soiled Where greasy little hands have toiled; The napkins kept in silver rings, And only ...
Oh, is there not one place on earthWhere man's goodwill has gone from birthThro' adolescence, with its rage,Into a kindly, ...
Why is your mind thus all day long Upon your music set;Till reason's swallowed in a song, Or idle canzonet?I ...
I HAVEN'T always acted good:I've taken things not meant for me;Not other people's drink and food,But things they never seemed ...
I wish I was a poet like the men that write in booksThe poems that we have to learn on ...
A fruit, small as the garden peach, May still be used for food. A State, though poor as ours, ...
We've had a letter from the boy,And oh, the gladness and the joyIt brought to us! We read it o'erI'd ...
The lady what comes up to our house t' wash Is awfully poor, an' she's got Three babies t' care ...
HOW bless'd those olive plants that growBeneath the altar's sacred shade,Where streams of fresh instruction flow,And Comfort's humble board is ...
Ha, the gentlest that there ever was made!The pleasantest that any woman knew!Most perfect to receive a high acclaim!The best ...
The wisdom of the world said unto me: "_Go forth and run, the race is to the brave; Perchance ...
The wild geese fly the bushy oaks around, With clamor loud. _Suh-suh_ their wings resound, As for their feet poor ...
LIBERTY? Is that the cry, then?We have heard it oft of yore.Once it had, we think, a meaning;Let us hear ...
O! COME to the greenwood shade, Away from the city's din, From the heartless strife of trade, And the fumes ...
Ho! every one that thirsts, draw nigh!('Tis God invites the fallen race)Mercy and free salvation buy;Buy wine, and milk, and ...
my grandmother had a serious gasproblem.we only saw her on Sunday.she'd sit down to dinnerand she'd have gas.she was very ...
In GaryThe Millsfeaston ore and men . . .Like potbellied hoboesthe mills snorelying face upwardon the north horizontheir breathlike winter ...
A BANK rose high above a rill, Whose wave through breeze-stirr'd branches quiver; Its careless sound came up the hill ...
Who dares to say your sheep are few? The flocks are all three hundred strong. Who dares despise your ...
Exempt! She "does not have to work!" So might one talkDefending long, bedridden ease, Weak yielding ankles, flaccid ...
My heart is searching for thee,And lost in longing for thy voice!Voice that lies deeper than the permanent sea,Deeper than ...
MILD Evening shades abroad invite,The sun pours soft his rays;On every side th' enraptur'd sightA gladdening scene surveys.Lo! Plenty's horn ...
Here is the House to hold me-cradle of all the race; Here is my lord and my love, here are ...
There, Robert, you have killed that fly,And should you thousand ages tryThe life you've taken to supply, You could not ...
Praise ye the Lord. Praise ye the Lord from the heavens: praise him in the heights. PRAISE ye the Lord! ...
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