Are The Children At Home? (Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Poems)
Each day when the glow of sunset Fades in the western sky, And the wee ones, tired of playing, Go ...
Each day when the glow of sunset Fades in the western sky, And the wee ones, tired of playing, Go ...
Fast by the banks of Cam was Colin bred,(Ye Nymphs, for every guard that sacred stream)To Wimple's woody shade his ...
Oreithyia, by the North Wind carried To stormy Thrace from Athens where you tarried Down by Ilissus all a blowy day Among the ...
The days o' langsyne, O! the days o' langsyne,Sweet thochts o' the bygane, I never sall tyne;Tho' darklin' I sit ...
The Brownie sits in the Scotchman's room,And eats his meat and drinks his ale,And beats the maid with her unused ...
Let music vast, triumphal, fill the world's great nave,Voicing the peerless theme of noble youthWho rose to Life's sublimest greatness ...
I.TEAR down the crape from the column! Let the shaft stand white and fair!Be silent the wailing music-there is no ...
Through the bound cable strands, the arching pathUpward, veering with light, the flight of strings,-Taut miles of shuttling moonlight syncopateThe ...
I can't stop crying.My eyes are like peddler women.What they buy is: you are gone.What they sell is: tears,And business ...
IHERE Pilate's Court is:None may clatter nor callWhere the Wolf giving suckTo the Twins glares on all"Strip Him and scourge ...
I ain't no verse-'og. When I busts in songAn' fills the air wiv choonful melerdy,I likes fer uvver coves to ...
A Dramatic SketchA Forest. Night.Alone, amidst the interminable forest!-Where shall I seek for aid! my weary limbs,Torn by the briars, ...
Beside the saffron of a curtain, litWith broidered flowers, below a golden fringeThat on her silver shoulder made a glow,Like ...
The season was the childhood of sweet June,Whose sunny hours from morning until noonWent creeping through the day with silent ...
"No," said old Farmer Downs to me, "I ain't the facts denyin',That all young folks in love must be, As birds must ...
MAY 26, 1880SIRE, son, and grandson; so the century glides;Three lives, three strides, three foot-prints in the sand;Silent as midnight's ...
1862'T is midnight: through my troubled dreamLoud wails the tempest's cry;Before the gale, with tattered sail,A ship goes plunging by.What ...
AND where he sat beneath the mystic stars,Nigh the twin founts of Immortality,That feed fair channels of the Stream of ...
It's the flag of France! the flag of France, I see!Life to it! Health to it! fold on fold,With the ...
Awake dull soul, and from thy fold of clayReceive the blessed tidings of the day:Not of a fox's cub, whose ...
O constellations of the early night,That sparkled brighter as the twilight died,And made the darkness glorious! I have seenYour rays ...
CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION, SEPTEMBER 14, 1869BONAPARTE, AUGUST 15, 1769.-HUMBOLDT, SEPTEMBER 14, 1769ERE yet the warning chimes of midnight sound,Set back the ...
IBETWEEN the night-end and the break of dayAn hour there is that from the thither shoreOf the dark river its ...
A farmer travelling with his loadPicked up a horseshoe in the road,And nailed it fast to his barn door,That Luck ...
Reason will not decide at last; the sword will decide.The sword: an obsolete instrument of bronze or steel,formerly used to ...
It was a vision…Two angels appeared to me… two genii.I say angels, genii, because both had no clothes on their ...
I look upon my lady's face, And, in the world about me, see No face like hers in any place: _Therefore it is ...
With deep Amen are closed the funeral rites:The wreathing incense lingers on the air,A mist of sorrow and a floating ...
I. The slow reflection of a woman's face Grew, as by witchcraft, in the oval space Of that strange glass on which the ...
WHITE England shouldering from the sea, Green England in thy rainy veil,Old island-nest of Liberty And loveliest Song, all hail!God guard thee ...
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