Tag Archive for: Dreams

Mirage

MIRAGE 4355 An unsubstantial city Within the sunset lies, God builds its battlements of clouds, An architect of skies The towers men could not finish, Their dreams that came not true, Here in the sunset vision Are raised for them anew …

Winter Evening Hymn

WINTER EVENING HYMN 2875 Cozy and quiet and warm and bright For a book and a pipe in the winter night, Safe and cheery and restfully sweet, The dreams that come in the room's woft heat; Till, clanging and clanking spirit and soul through Comes…

Dreams

Dreams 1768 If the iceman should come to me some day, While weighing out a plece at my back door, And, dropping it upon the porch, should say: "It was so cold last year and year before, The crop is long and we have cut the price"- If he…

An Old- Fashion Girl

An Old- Fashion Girl 5821 Just an old-fashioned girl, of the kind that you know When your mothersat up to mend stockings for you With a ball of red yarn and a bag full of hose And a goose-eggish thing that slipped down in the toos Just an…

Reason

Reason 3292 While wafts of song blew shoreward, dim and sweet And sleeping still (because unwaked by you) I dreamed and dreamed, and thought my visions truc I woke when all the crimson color faded And wanton Autumn's lips and cheeks were…

A Question

A Question Mabel Mahin 1912 I study the faces of old women And ask myself a question, new and strange To my own features will there come a change? That look of meek submission? Am I, then, No different from the others? And again, I ask,…

The Barren Year

THE BARREN YEAR 4031 I think perhaps my heart would be less If I need not look on lovers any more; If winter only lasted all the year, And one could sit alone in thoughtless peace Beside the chimney-place and only hear The wind-voice in…

Dear Little Hands

Dear Little Hands 3844 Dear little hands, I loved them EO, And now they are lying under the snow: Under the snow so cold and white Icannot see them or touch them tonight They are quiet and still at last Oh, me, How busy and restless they…

Pictures In The Fire

Pictures in the Fire 4855 When the winds whistle 'round the house And fields are brown and bare, I sit beside the roaring fire And watch the pictures there The flames leap up and I behold A wondrous palace, bright, With arch and column…

The Two Angels

The Two Angles By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 648 Two angels, one of Life and one of Death, Passed o'er our village as the morning broke; The dawn was on their faces, and beneath The somber houses hearsed with plumes of smoke Their attitude…

A City Mood

A CITY MOOD Arthur Stringer 4354 If I once more might only wander free From all this citied laughter touched with pain, And learn with quiet hall and patient tree To watch the wheeling seasons and the rain, And with the lyric grass, the…

L’Envoi

L'Envoi 3293 Absolve me, Prince; confession is all over But listen and take warning, oh, my lover You put to rout all dreams that may have been; You won the day, but 'tis not all to win; Guard well the fort, lest new dreams enter in

Cuba

CUBA JAMES BARRON HOPE 2721 O'er thy purple hills, O Cuba! Through thy valleys of romance, All thy glorious dreams of freedom Are but dreamt as in a trance Mountain pass and fruitful valley- Mural town and spreading plain Show the footstep…

O Wind From The Golden Gate

O Wind From the Golden Gate Virginia Bloren Harrison 2071 Now dies the salt wind-breath of Eastward seas- And in the quivering leaves of whispering trees Soft stirs the evening breeze From charmed lands, O wind from out the West! From slumbrous…

Maud Mailer’s Bike

Maud Mailer's Bike 3362 Maud Muller on a summer's day Maunted her wheel and rode away Beneath her blue cap glowed a wealth Of large red treckles and rat rate health Ringing, she rode, and her merry glen Frightened a sparrow from his free:…

Pictures In The Fire

PICTURES IN THE FIRE Eugene C Dolson 4867 WHEN day is done, and twilight shadows fall Athwart the parlor wall- When flickering lights around our hearthstone flit, Before the lamps are lit The children gather round in eager glee To tell…