If I Should Die Tonight (Arabella Eugenia Smith Poems)
If I should die to-night, My friends would look upon my quiet face Before they laid ...
If I should die to-night, My friends would look upon my quiet face Before they laid ...
In all we do, and hear, and see,Is restless Toil and Vanity.While yet the rolling earth abides,Men come and go ...
The swevens came up round Harold the Earl,Like motes in the sunnes beam;And over him stood the Weird Lady,In her ...
WERE there no crowns on earth, No evergreen to weave a hero's wreath, That he must pass beyond the gates ...
TRANSPIERC'D with many a streaming wound, The Negro lay, invoking death :His blood o'erflowe'd the reeking ground He, gasping, ...
PROUD is the state of its millions of men, And proud is the state of its name; In its borders ...
Lord, Thou hast promised. Lo! I give Thee backThine own great Word. Keep it. I summon Thee.Keep it as God ...
WHAT shall we ask? A Father hears,Who weighs our blessings, counts our tears,And when for bread we pray,We leave it ...
What a plague is this o' mine, Winna steek his e'e,Though I hap him ow'r the head As cosie as ...
'Twas a hell of a Hell they glimpsed, my son, In superstitious daysWhen cultured man had scarce begun To ...
Fle fro the pres, and dwelle with sothefastness{.e}, Suffise thin owen thing, thei it be smal; ...
The year at its turn,the whirring thread unrolls.One hour more, the last today,and what was living time is scrollsof dust ...
"Lady, whither would you stray? Tempt no more this dang'rous wood; Blood-besprinkled is the way, Evil lurks, to injure good. ...
There's a very funny insect that you do not often spy,And it isn't quite a spider, and it isn't quite ...
The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament showeth his handy-work.Psalm xix. 1. NO cloud obscures the summer ...
O lady! thou, who in the olden time Hadst been the star of many a poet's dream! Thou, ...
Mountains and vales, how ye quake 'neath His tread- Wake from your slumbers, He calls, O ye dead! Tremble, great ...
I would that you should know,Dear mother, that I love you — love you so!That I remember other ...
Men of Cleveland, had a vultureSought a timid dove for preyWould you not, with human pity, Drive the gory bird ...
Bright young thing: Thou on the beaches Life is gay and pleasure ladenAll in vain the law beseeches ...
There's Hope when we behold a wither'd flower,That Spring shall nature's faded charms restore;There's Hope in those whom fate's relentless ...
The carpenter is intent on the pressure of his hand on the awl and the trick of pinpointing his strengththrough ...
Life's Vesper-bells are ringing In the temple of my heart,And yon sunset, sure, is singing "Nunc dimittis -- Now depart!"Ah! ...
Our God is great! and to his armI'll trust my destiny;For what in life or death can harmThe soul that ...
(Written for Mother)Oh Lord, I've never lived where churchesgrow.I love creation better as it stoodThat day You finished it so ...
I. 1. Youre two eyn will sle me sodenlyI may the beaute of them not sustene,So wendeth it thorowout my ...
I, like a moth to the candle, Am chained by a glance from your eye. If I shun you, the ...
I Life flung to Art this voice, of mercy bare. "Fool, to my human earth come you, so free, To ...
Madam! permit a Muse, that has been long Silent with wonder, now to find a Tongue: Forgive that Zeal I ...
DEAR friend, for thee, through ev'ry changing year,Unchang'd affection draws the tie more near;Treasure most precious, dearest to the heart,Increas'd ...
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