On Violet’s Wafers, Sent Me When I Was Ill (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Fine-tissued as her finger-tips, and white As all her thoughts; in shape like shields of prize, As if before young ...
Fine-tissued as her finger-tips, and white As all her thoughts; in shape like shields of prize, As if before young ...
I thought he was dumb, said he was dumb, Yet I've heard him cry. First faint scream, Out of life's ...
When Yankee soldiers reach the barricade Then Joan of Arc gives each the accolade. For she is there in armor ...
A Story of Christmas Eve. Strange that the termagant winds should scold The Christmas Eve so bitterly! But Wife, and ...
My love looks like a girl to-night, But she is old. The plaits that lie along her pillow Are not ...
WRITTEN FOR LORADO TAFT'S STATUE OF BLACK HAWK AT OREGON, ILLINOIS To be given in the manner of the Indian ...
Joust First. I. Bright shone the lists, blue bent the skies, And the knights still hurried amain To the tournament ...
Rain filled the streets once a year, rising almost to door and window sills, battering walls and roofs until it ...
I asked the old Negro, "What is that bird that sings so well?" He answered: "That is the Rachel-Jane." "Hasn't ...
The park bench was deserted as I sat down to read Beneath the long,straggly branches of an old willow tree. ...
Fear not that you might make a mistake in believing your dream. Fear rather that if you don't go for ...
At last, when all the summer shine That warmed life's early hours is past, Your loving fingers seek for mine ...
A governor it was proclaimed this time, When all who would come seeking in New Hampshire Ancestral memories might come ...
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