“In Peace And Quietness” (Oscar Fay Adams Poems)
A silver tide,The waters glide,And round the feet of mountains slide,O'er whose high steepThe moonbeams peep,And on through winding valleys ...
Oscar Fay Adams Poems (77 Poems)
At Lincoln (Oscar Fay Adams Poems)
When I went up the minster tower,The minster clock rang out the hour;The restless organ far belowSent tides of music ...
In The Library At Elmwood (Oscar Fay Adams Poems)
These are the friends whom he loved: these books that reveal on their pagesPencilled marks of approval, as one claps ...
On The Labrador Coast (Oscar Fay Adams Poems)
Down the coast of LabradorRode the storm-wind conqueror:In his train the surges roared,From black clouds the torrents poured.Miles on miles ...
Before The Gate of Storms (Oscar Fay Adams Poems)
Before the gate of storms two dim shapes met:The one was robed in weeds ...
Where Are The Pipes Of Pan? (Oscar Fay Adams Poems)
In these prosaic daysOf politics and trade,When seldom Fancy laysHer touch on man or maid,The sounds are fled that strayedAlong ...
What Can Drear December Say? (Oscar Fay Adams Poems)
What can drear December sayThat should make our souls rejoice?Fields are white and skies are grey;Winter speaks with sternest voice.Summer's ...
A Valentine (Oscar Fay Adams Poems)
There is a little maidOf whom I'm much afraid.Shall I confess it?She wears a sealskin coat;Its grace and shape I ...
Reality (Oscar Fay Adams Poems)
Of Love the minstrel sang, and drewAn easy finger o'er the strings,Then laughed and sang of other things,—Of grass and ...
On Truro Moor (Oscar Fay Adams Poems)
O friend of mine, so dear to me,Forget not yet those summer hoursOn Truro moors beside the sea.O'er rolling downs ...
A Laggard Spring (Oscar Fay Adams Poems)
The winter tarried and the spring was late,And still from wild waste lands to northward blewThe gale that stiffened nightly ...
In The Crypt At Winchester De Profundis (Oscar Fay Adams Poems)
Out of the deep I cry to TheeWho notest e'en the sparrow's fall:O Lord, be merciful to me!I may not ...
Renunciation (Oscar Fay Adams Poems)
Nay, friend, farewell! for if I loved you less,It might be I should strive to hold you fastIn bonds of ...
At Parting (Oscar Fay Adams Poems)
With eyes in which there gleamed a tear,And voice whose syllables were broken,She stood aghast in sudden fear.With eyes in ...
Hull (Oscar Fay Adams Poems)
Low leagues of coast dunes bending to the westAre tremulous with waving beach grass green,Or all aglare with shifting sands ...
To One Who Has Suffered Much (Oscar Fay Adams Poems)
I know, dear friend, your hours are drear and cold;I know your path is harsh with briers and flints;Yet in ...
Which (Oscar Fay Adams Poems)
O which were best, and who would dare to chooseBetween the friend who holds you as his life,Counting all effort ...
To James Russell Lowell (Oscar Fay Adams Poems)
What rarer, finer bliss than his who feels,While happy friends and neighbors press his hands,The warmth of handclasps given in ...
Indifference (Oscar Fay Adams Poems)
What is indifference, do you ask of me?O well I know the meaning of the phrase.It is to find grey ...
Miserrimus (Oscar Fay Adams Poems)
"Most wretched one!" No, not to him belongsMisery's preeminence in this sad world's sightWho suffereth for conscience and the right,As ...
Reconciliati (Oscar Fay Adams Poems)
As one who, wandering in a weary landAlone, where thorns and briers beset the way,And clouds and darkness have o'ercome ...
On A Grave In ChristChurch (Oscar Fay Adams Poems)
Turning from Shelley's sculptured face aside,And pacing thoughtfully the silent aislesOf the grey church that overlooks the smilesOf the glad ...
At The Tomb Of William Of Wykeham (Oscar Fay Adams Poems)
Builder and prelate, dust five hundred years,Who lent the Norman's handiwork such graceThe Norman never knew, that Walkelin's naveMen call ...
To Modjeska As Rosalind (Oscar Fay Adams Poems)
When from the poet's brain fair Arden's gladesWere peopled with the lightsome folk we know,A shade of discontent was seen ...
Easter-Frida (Oscar Fay Adams Poems)
O year gone down into the sullen past,Relentless year that hast no tidings broughtOf him who suddenly from earth was ...
To Modjeska As Julia Of Verona (Oscar Fay Adams Poems)
The tender maid of old Verona's town,Whom Proteus loved and yet could lightly leaveWhen sight of Silvia did his soul ...
High Water-Mark (Oscar Fay Adams Poems)
One glorious day gleams through my memory still,Though lagging years have come and gone erewhile;That day whereon I seemed to ...
Love Is So Sweet (Oscar Fay Adams Poems)
Love is so sweet, but he seldom stays long:(Roses of June are gone ere July.)Love is so sweet, but brief ...
O Friend Estranged (Oscar Fay Adams Poems)
O friend estranged, whose love, now cold,Once warmed my heart with bliss untold,How near we were, now sundered far!What fate ...
On Truro Sands (Oscar Fay Adams Poems)
To W. M. F.On Truro sands we walked, dear friend,Slow following up that low shore's trend.The crescent moon dipt in ...