#Americans #Women #XIXCentury #XXCentury #PoemsOfPower
You who are loudly crying out for peace, You who are wanting love to vanquish hat… How is it in the four walls of your home The while you wait? Do those who form your household welcome…
With each strong thought, with every ear… For aught thou deemest needful to thy so… Invisible vast forces are set thronging Between thee and that goal ’Tis only when some hidden weakness alte…
#PoemsOfPower
Oh! the maidens of France are certainly… And I think every fellow will state That the 'what-you-may-call-it’ coiffure… They put up their hair is great! And they know how to dress, and they wea…
Came a bouquet from the city, Fragrant, rich and debonair - Sweet carnation and geraniium, Heliotrope and roses rare. Down beside the crystal river,
#1905 #PoemsOfLove
Lie still and rest, in that serene repos… That on this holy morning comes to those Who have been burdened with the cares wh… The sad heart weary and the tired head a… Lie still and rest -
#1914 #PoemsOfCheer
Where are the temperance people? Well, scattered here and there: Some gathering in their produce To show at the autumn fair; Some threshing wheat for market,
In the dawn of the day, when the sea and… Reflected the sunrise above, I set forth, with a heart full of courag… To seek for the Kingdom of Love. I asked of a Poet I met on the way,
The impulse of all love is to create. God was so full of love, in his embrace He clasped the empty nothingness of spac… And low! the solar system! High in stat… The mighty sun sat, so supreme and great
#1883 #MiscellanousPoems
Most blest is he who in the morning time Sets forth upon his journey with no staf… Shaped by another for his use. Who see… The imminent necessity for toil, And with each morning wakens to the thou…
#1917 #PoemsOfExperience
Out over childhood’s borders, Manhood’s brave banners unfurled, Weighed down with precepts and orders A boy has gone into the world. Nobody thinks it pathetic–
If you saw a lion Not within a cage, Would you tease and fret him Till he roared in rage? Would you tempt his anger
To-day I was so weary and I lay In that delicious state of semi-waking, When baby, sitting with his nurse at pla… Cried loud for “mamma,” all his toys for… I was so weary and I needed rest,
Just a little every day– That’s the way! Seeds in darkness swell and grow, Tiny blades push through the snow; Never any flower of May
As we journey along, with a laugh and a… We see, on youth’s flower-decked slope, Like a beacon of light, shining fair on… The beautiful Station of Hope. But the wheels of old Time roll along a…
A giddy young maiden with nimble feet, Heigh-ho! alack and alas! Declared she would far rather dance than… And the truth of it came to pass. For she danced all day and she danced al…