To-Day (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
"The sun will set at day's decline"; Qu'importe?Quaff off meanwhile life's sparkling wine!Of what avail are mournful fears,Foreboding sighs and idle ...
"The sun will set at day's decline"; Qu'importe?Quaff off meanwhile life's sparkling wine!Of what avail are mournful fears,Foreboding sighs and idle ...
Into her mother's bedroom to wash the ballooning body."My mother is jelly-hearted and she has a brain of jelly:Sweet, quiver-soft, ...
Tho' the miser's house may contain the water of immortality;Still, like unto the deadliest poison, is its effect on me.Moses ...
At dead of night, when stars appear,And strong Bootes turns the Bear,When mortals sleep their cares away,Fatigued with labours of ...
Your late kind Gift let me restore;For I must never wear it more.My Mother cries, ``What's here to do?``A Crimson ...
I will tell you of a country girl,A girl I often meet:She has neither wit or beauty, But a world of ...
ONCE I held a well-carved brimming goblet,—In my two hands tightly clasp'd I held it,Eagerly the sweet wine sipp'd I ...
And of me say the fools:I entered the lodges of womenAnd never left.And they call for my hanging,Because about the ...
O my God, my righteous God.Not you, in heaven apart,but you, who are within me, God -within my soul and ...
It was clear that poor Richard was out of the running,His mortification he could not disguise.She flirted with Edward, the ...
Lord Of all worlds, let thanks and praiseTo thee forever fill my soul;With blessings thou hast crowned my daysMy heart, ...
Thou, Jubilus, the heart dost move;And makest us sing for very love.The Jubilus in fire awakes,And straight the man must ...
Art thou poor, yet hast thou golden slumbers?O sweet content!Art thou rich, yet is thy mind perplexed?O punishment!Dost thou laugh ...
As a wise child excells the scept'red fool,Who of conceit and selfishness is full —As a good name exceeds the ...
Like one who runsFearful at night, he knows not why,Dreading the loneliness, yet shunsThe highway's casual company; Wherefore he hastes,The friendly ...
On the way to the village storeI drive through a down-draftfrom the neighbor's chimney.Woodsmoke tumbles from the eavesbacklit by sun, ...
MANY good works I've done and ended,Ye take the praise—I'm not offended;For in the world, I've always thoughtEach thing its ...
CHA. W.W. Charon! thou slave! thou fooll! thou cavaleer!CHA. A slave! a fool! what traitor's voice I hear?W. Come bring ...
Tell me what within her eyesMakes the forgotten Spring arise,And all the day, if kind she looks,Flow to a tune ...
I sat and watched the walls of night With cracks of sudden lightning glow,And listened while with clumsy might The thunder wallowed ...
"Break me my bounds, and let me fly To regions vast of boundless sky; Nor I, like piteous Daphne, be Root-bound. Ah, no! ...
11SOME unseen fingers, like idle breeze,are playing upon my heart the music of the ripples.12"WHAT language is thine, O sea?" "The ...
A FableA Drum it is no Man, and a Man he is no Drum,The Drum is very clever, and the ...
Dame Fortune's jade with a fanciful hornOf silver ambitions she warns of the flame;With pearls for the princes and tears ...
It is false that aught of evil or misfortune proceedeth from the stars-All good and evil-weal and woe-emanate from the ...
WITH a whirl of thoughts oppress'd, I sunk from reverie to rest. A horrid vision seized my head, I saw the graves give ...
He stands on the kerbWatching the street.He's always watching there,Listening to the beatOf time in the street,Listening to the thronging ...
Every October I start to get upset.The factories' hundred throats blow smoke to the sky.The pullets are getting fatfor Christmas ...
CA' the yowes to the knowes, Ca' them where the heather grows, Ca' them where the burnie rows, My bonnie dearie.As I gaed ...
Our bard, to modern epilogue a foe,Thinks such mean mirth but deadens generous woe;Dispels in idle air the moral sigh,And ...
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