#Americans #Women #XIXCentury #XXCentury #PoemsOfPower
They stood at the garden gate. By the lifting of a lid She might have read her fate In a little thing he did. He plucked a beautiful flower,
#1905 #PoemsOfLove
Said Willie to Tom ‘Let us hie away To the wonderful Island of Endless Pla… It lies off the border of ’No School L… And abounds with pleasures, I understan… There boys go swimming whenever they ple…
The day is drawing near, my dear, When you and I must sever; Yet whether near or far we are, Our hearts will love forever, Our hearts will love forever.
We love but once. The great gold orb o… From dawn to eventide doth cast his ray; But the full splendour of his perfect mi… Is reached but once throughout the live-… We love but once. The waves, with ceas…
#1883 #PoemsOfPassion
There was a man, it was said one time, Who went astray in his youthful prime. Can the brain keep cool and the heart ke… When the blood is a river that’s running… And boys will be boys the old folks say,
‘Tis time to dress. Dost hear the music… Like sobbing waves that roll up from the… Yes, yes, I hear – I yield – no need of… I know your wishes,– send Lisette to me… I hate the ballroom; hate its gilded ple…
Baby was playing and down he fell, down… Mama will kiss him and make him well, Oh! what a miracle this is! Baby was running and stubbed his toe, st… If mama will kiss him the pain will go–
I want more lives in which to love This world so full of beauty, I want more days to use the ways I know of doing duty; I ask no greater joy than this
Our lives are songs. God writes the wor… And we set them to music at pleasure; And the song grows glad, or sweet, or sa… As we choose to fashion the measure. We must write the music, whatever the so…
Nay, nay, Antonio! nay, thou shalt not… My Gracia, who hath so deserted me. Thou art my friend, but if thou dost def… I shall not hesitate to challenge thee. ‘Curse and forget her?’ So I might anot…
This little toe is hungry– This little toe is too, This toe lies abed like a sleepy head, And this toe cries ‘Boo-hoo.’ This toe big and tall is the smartest of…
So we must part forever; and although I long have beat my wings and cried to g… Free from your narrow limiting control, Forth into space, the true home of the s… Yet now, yet now that hour is drawing ne…
So vast the tide of Love within me surg… It overflows like some stupendous sea, The confines of the Present and To-be; And 'gainst the Past’s high wall I feel… As it would cry “Thou too shalt yield t…
‘What’s in a glass of wine?’ There, set the glass where I can look w… Now listen to me, friend, while I begin And tell you what I see– What I behold with my far-reaching eyes…
With care, and skill, and cunning art She parried Time’s malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart And aged her in a day!