A Poet To His Baby Son (James Weldon Johnson Poems)
Tiny bit of humanity,Blessed with your mother's face,And cursed with your father's mind.I say cursed with your father's mind,Because you ...
Tiny bit of humanity,Blessed with your mother's face,And cursed with your father's mind.I say cursed with your father's mind,Because you ...
What is the task that to the muse belongs?What but to deck in her harmonious songsThe beauteous works of nature ...
"Thank God, we have kept the flag floating."-- General White.Some men, like French, display much dash; They boldly rush upon the ...
Written In Madison Caweln's "Lyrics and Idyls." Herein are blown from out the South Songs blithe as those of Pan's pursed mouth-- As ...
Sing the song of the reckless, who care not what they do;Sing the song of a sinner and the song ...
At last, dear love, the day is gone, The doors are barred—the lamps are lit,The couch beside the fire is drawn, The ...
Hands off! thou tithe-fat plunderer! playNo trick of priestcraft here!Back, puny lordling! darest thou layA hand on Elliott's bier?Alive, your ...
Thou Poet, who, like any lark, Dost whet thy beak and trill From misty morn till murky dark, Nor ever pipe thy fill: Hast ...
The fire is blazing on the ample hearth,Diffusing comfort through the antique room,And we are watching in our simple mirthThe ...
Light of triumph in her eyes,Eleanor her apron ties;As she pushes back her sleeves,High resolve her bosom heaves.Hasten, cook! impel ...
WHEN the Lord created our wonderful world,He asked nobody's advice, and did as Hepleased,All after His own will, in accordance ...
The long night, the short sleep, and La Gorgues to wander,So be the Fates were kind and our Commander;With a ...
How long, great Poet, shall thy sacred laysProvoke our wonder, and transcend our praise?Can eneither injuries of time, or age,Damp ...
From Retsch's OutlinesBeauty, wealth,Might, valour, wisdom, mingled and absorbedIn one cold similarity of dust!Milman.THERE lies he, as in sleep reclined,A ...
PAVEMENT slipp'ry, people sneezing, Lords in ermine, beggars freezing ; Titled gluttons dainties carving, Genius in a garret starving. Lofty mansions, warm and spacious ...
ON the terrace lies the sunlight, fretted with the shadeOf the wilding apple-orchard Wordsworth made.Sunlight falls upon the aspen, and ...
Only a few links wanting, Earth's toilers oft exclaim,Only a few charmed linklets, To make life's perfect chain;Philosophers and statesmen, Poets and courtiers ...
An odd name they gave you,my uncle,Black hobomanBlack streetwalking manBlack PRINCE Albert indeedwho never knew robes.They called you Beale Street ...
O WINDS, that ripple the long grass!O winds, that kiss the jeweled sea!Grow still and lingering as you passAbout this ...
WHAT changes time's swift motion brings!What sad reverse of human things!What once was valu'd, highly priz'd,Is in a few short ...
In such an inexplicable blue,Upon the stonework to embark,The little ship of glowing hueAppears in Alexander Park.The little lamp, a ...
Oh! tell me a tale of the airly days-- Of the times as they ust to be;"Piller of Fi-er" and "Shakespeare's ...
(From a Westerner's Point of View.) No matter what you call it, Whether genius, or art, He sings the simple songs that come The ...
HASBROUCK was there and so were BillAnd Smollet Smith the poet, and Ames was there.After his thirteenth drink, the burning ...
SWEET Cumbrian Bard, esteem'd and honour'd long,In youth belov'd respected in thy age,Thine is each title to mankind endear'd,The social ...
IN the deepest nights of WinterTo the Muses kind oft cried I:"Not a ray of morn is gleaming,Not a sign ...
There came a youth upon the earth,Some thousand years ago,Whose slender hands were nothing worth,Whether to plow, to reap, or ...
BEATTIE.Sweet minstrel! from thy hermit's cell Rich strains of sacred truth are flowing,The haughty sceptic's pride to quell; Thy harp is tuned ...
A BARD, unlike the bards of yore,Who drew from Aganippe's well,Inspiring draughts of poesy,As their harmonious numbers tell;Unlike the Roman ...
WHERE the foot of the rainbow meets the field,And the grass resplendent glows,The earth will a precious treasure yield,So the ...
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