Goodbye To The Old Life (Wesley McNair Poems)
Goodbye to the old life,to the sadness of roomswhere my family slept as I satlate at night on myisland of ...
Goodbye to the old life,to the sadness of roomswhere my family slept as I satlate at night on myisland of ...
Sylph-like, and with a graceful pride,I saw the wild Louisa glideAlong the dance's glittering row,With footsteps soft as falling snow.On ...
Nothing's moving I don't see anybodyAnd I know that it's not a trickThere really is nothing moving thereAnd there aren't ...
Green miles of leafy peace are spread Over these ranks, unseen and serried;Screening the trenches with their dead And living men already ...
None ever knew his name,Honoured, or one of shame,Highborn or lowly;Only upon that treeTwo letters, J and C,Carved by him, ...
When snow is here, and the trees look weird, And the knuckled twigs are gloved with frost;When the breath congeals in ...
COME and see ! Come and see ! "The Thrush pipes out of the haw-thorn-tree :And I and Dicky on ...
The wintry days have come once more, The birds are still, the sweet flowers dead,And faint winds sigh a wailing song O'er ...
Out and in the river is windingThe links of its long, red chain,Through belts of dusky pine-landAnd gusty leagues of ...
WHEN snow-balls on the horses' hoofs And the wind from the south blows warm,When the cattle stand where the sunbeams beat And ...
I.He sang a song as he sowed the field, Sowed the field at break of day:"When the pursed-up leaves are as ...
'Twas Christmas Day on the SommeThe men stood on parade,The snow laid six feet on the groundTwas twenty in the ...
From over the leagues of ice and snow, and the miles of scorching sand;From back of the days of long ...
All hope of rest withdrawn me?-- What dread command hath put This awful curse upon me-- The curse of the wandering foot! Forward and ...
If I should be the first to go awayOut of the golden sunlight of our peace,When the dear sacrament of ...
A fairy thing was Milly when She blest my wondering sight;I ne'er shall meet her match again-- A maid so gaily bright.Her ...
Then Almitra spoke, saying, "We would ask now of Death."And he said:You would know the secret of death.But how shall ...
The snowdrop, Winter's timid child,Awakes to life, bedew'd with tears;And flings around its fragrance mild,And where no rival flow'rets bloom,Amid ...
SHAKERAGS, cripples, gaunt and dazed,Prison-broken hosts on hosts,Torture-scarred and dungeon-crazed,Down the convict road they pour,More and more and myriads more,Terrible ...
AS I in hoary winter's night Stood shivering in the snow,Surprised I was with sudden heat Which made my heart to glow;And ...
"Have you heard the earth crying?" said Vassily Vassilitch."What do you mean?" I asked."Why," said he, "I've heard her crying ...
Oh! thou most fatal of Pandora's train,Consumption! silent cheater of the eye;Thou comest not robed in agonizing pain,Nor mark'st thy ...
I Winter without And warmth within; The winds may shout And the storm begin; The snows may pack At the window pane, And the skies grow black, And ...
How can my vineyard's charm be told,As it basks in the autumn haze?The Frost King's touch, so light and cold,Like ...
We, too, have autumns, when our leaves Drop loosely through the dampened air,When all our good seems bound in sheaves, And we ...
The earnest throbbings of my heartO'erflood this page, then upward fly,Where my dear country's fame unfoldsLike golden banners in the ...
Type of two mighty continents!--combiningThe strength of Europe with the warmth and glowOf Asian song and prophecy,--the shiningOf Orient splendors ...
Within the circuit of this plodding lifeThere enter moments of an azure hue,Untarnished fair as is the violetOr anemone, when ...
IAt BethlehemShepherds, what of the night?'Dark, dark and cold;Snow upon field and fold,Wind that is fierce and wild!But over the ...
FROM Bideford to Appledore the meadows lie aglowWith kingcup and buttercup, that flout the summer snow;And crooked back and silver ...
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