The Babes In The Woods (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
(BIG PINE FLAT, 1871)"Something characteristic," eh? Humph! I reckon you mean by thatSomething that happened in our way, Here at ...
(BIG PINE FLAT, 1871)"Something characteristic," eh? Humph! I reckon you mean by thatSomething that happened in our way, Here at ...
" Well ! "" Here we are ! "" You call to mind the clown who used to speak, His ...
To the Editor Mr. Editor,—The riddling lines which I send you, were written upon a young lady ...
Oh, for those days that had no doubt, When I, a simple village laddie,Sang with much glee the rhyme about ...
Tell me now in what hidden way is Lady Flora the lovely Roman? Where's Hipparchia, and where is Thais, Neither ...
Though Death you once came near me, I feared thee ...
If all the grief and woe and bitterness,All dolour, ill and every evil chanceThat ever came upon this grieving worldWere ...
Through half her teens, e'en from her birth,All humour, comedy and mirth,Of fun and whim the very soul,While true good-nature ...
O, what would you do if you came to my houseAnd found the door shut and the candles all out,With ...
(George Eliot.)I. I NEVER touched thy royal hand, dead queen, But from afar have looked upon thy face, Which, calm ...
Command of me, my Lady and my queen, All thy good pleasure, as I were thy slave, Which I shall ...
Farewell, my lady dear and dread, Farewell, of all sovereign and queen, Farewell, perfect and sacred head, Farewell, who dost ...
UNCERTAIN-AGED Miss Thereabouts, Tough fossil of her teens, Has lifted up with saving hand The ruined Smithereens.Down the dark steps ...
"You must choose between me and your cigar." -- BREACH OF PROMISE CASE, CIRCA 1885. Open the old cigar-box, get ...
Gripping the lectern, rocking it, searching the faces for the souls, for signs of heartfelt mindfulness at work, I thought, ...
I "Soul! Shall I see thy face," she said, "In one brief hour? And away with thee from a loveless ...
Our death on the cross into the waters dying to our history to our sin rising ever Raised to live ...
Standing on the schoolhouse grounds waiting for the bus to come the batter and pushing of the teens and those ...
Excitement, singing, running to the water to the river, to be washed clean joining in the faith, by water, into ...
The current of his words flowing waters, alive washing over us, living waters In remembrance of Him His baptism in ...
Woven threads, back and forth weaving a story, a rich fabric strong fibers, bright colors words repeating the message the ...
A ribbon of faith, a living stream, like the water we walked, singing down to the river A community, happy ...
Even in the wilderness Satan in the wild we are watched over by angels as was the Christ Out of ...
Christ met, we meet Satan in the wild vivid images, words hard to hear of the tempting of Christ of ...
Through the remembering through the awful night pain which they lived through the steady reminder, the repeated connection the baptism ...
Stories of faith, of His day and ours indwelling of our God to withstand the evils of this world the ...
Water, flowing, living waters moving through his message, through his words a special message of life, life changing hope, faith, ...
We, the children, baptized like Him beloved of God, children, brothers and sisters with Christ, with one another sharing in ...
washed wholly clean from the inside out our lives changed forever into the waters of baptism connected to Christ, to ...
A new life, within us, within Him, dying to the old to our will, to our sin rising out of ...
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