#Americans #Women #XIXCentury #XXCentury #1914 #PoemsOfCheer
At morn the wise man walked abroad, Proud with the learning of great fools. He laughed and said, “There is no God— ’Tis force creates, ’tis reason rules.” Meek with the wisdom of great faith,
God, what a world, if men in street and… Felt that same kinship of the human hear… Which makes them, in the face of fire an… Rise to the meaning of True Brotherhood…
Some cawing Crows, a hooting Owl, A Hawk, a Canary, an old Marsh-Fowl, One day all meet together To hold a caucus and settle the fate Of a certain bird (without a mate),
Why sit ye idly dreaming all the day, While the golden, precious hours flit aw… See you not the day is waning, waning fa… That the morn’s already vanished in the… When the glowing noon approaches, we wil…
I and new love, in all its living bloom, Sat vis-à-vis, while tender twilight hou… Went softly by us, treading as on flower… Then suddenly I saw within the room The old love, long since lying in its to…
#1883 #PoemsOfPassion
Looking some papers over, Dusty and dim and old, I found some words that thrilled me With their ring of genuine gold– Words that were better than rubies,
There was a little comet who lived near… She loved to wander out at night and jum… The mother of the comet was a very good… She used to scold her reckless child for… She told her of the ogre, Sun, who love…
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,
Walking to-day on the Common, I heard a stranger say To a friend who was standing near him, ‘Do you know I am going away? ’ I had never seen their faces,
#1905 #PoemsOfLove
In England, there are wrongs no doubt, Which should be righted; so men say, Who seek to weed earth’s garden out, And give the roses right of way; Yes, right of way, to fruit and rose,
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–
One night Nurse Sleep held out her hand To tired little May. ‘Come, go with me to Wonderland,’ She said, ‘I know the way. Just rock-a-by-hum-m-m,
When this world’s pleasures for my soul… Ere my heart’s plummet sounded depths of… I called on Reason to control my brain, And scoffed at that old story of the Ch… But when o’er burning wastes my feet had…
I leave with God to-morrow’s where and… And do concern myself but with the Now, That little word, though half the future… Well used, holds twice its meaning and i… Like one blindfolded groping out his way…
#PoemsOfPower
As in the long dead days marauding hosts Of Indians came from far Siberian coast… And drove the peaceful Aztecs from thei… Despoiled their homes (but left their te… So has the white man with the Indians d…