Tag Archive for: Hope
Guilty, Or Not Guilty
Hope and MotivationGuilty, or Not Guilty
4801
Yoar name," said the judge, as he eyed her with Lindly look and keen
"Is Mary McGuire, If you please, sir," "and your age?""I am turned fifteen"
"Well, Mary," and then from a paper he slowly und gravely read,
"You…
For Ah These
Hope and MotivationFor AH These
Juliet Wilbor Tompkins
2935
I thank thee, Lord, that I am straight and strong
With wit to work and hope ho to keep me brave":
That two score yours, unfathomed, still belong
To the allotted life thy bounty gave
I thank thee…
Too Late
Hope and MotivationToo Late
3303
And so you have comeback to me
Since time at last has set you free
And offered me again the heart
Whose earthly hope was found in thee
And so you come to me once more,
And say the old love's growing, yet
You've tried through…
The Free
Hope and MotivationThe Free
1484
The carrion vultures of the town,
Who plunder a stricken foe,
But eagles eagles they who strike their
Alive, nor fear a blow prey
Bold hearts they be, and large and free
Is life as they bravely make it;
And thus they speak…
Paul Vance, Or Lorena’s Reply
Hope and MotivationPaul Vance, or Lorena's Reply
3775
The years are creeping slowly by, dear Paul, the winters come and go,
The wind reeps past st with mourrful cry, dear Paul, and pelt my face with snow:
But there's no snow upon the heart, dear Paul: 'tis…
The Rooter’s Rotary
Hope and MotivationThe Rooter's Rotary
5217
From the lady dressed in red
With a hat upon her locks
Bigger than the batter's box,
With a tongue that wags along
From the first tap of the gong;
"Who is that nice looking man
Over there the one that ran?"
"How…
The Yellowing Wood
Hope and MotivationTHE YELLOWING WOOD
5601
Now with the stealthy touch of Autumn's frend
When all the harvest gold is gathered in,
The quiet woods begin
To burn as with a magte flame of red,
The fail ripe berry glistens in the brake,
The acorn drops among…
Charely Books
Hope and MotivationMiss O'Dare, since I left the city
I find I have changed my mind;
O pray do not deem me fickle
Or think me the least un unkind
For I find we were both mistaken,
And that you would never want me,
So my heart has turned to another;
Miss…
The Forgotten Chord
Hope and MotivationThe Forgotten Chord
3301
He was only a poor mad musician
Behind an asylum's strong bars:
At night he would sit by his window
And sing to the beautiful stars:
But how he could play in the daytime:
Such music you don't often hear-
The…
The Wife
Hope and MotivationThe Wife
4228
I could have stemmed misfortune's lide
And borne the rich one's sneer,
Have braved the haughty glance of pride
Nor shed a single tear:
I could have smiled on every biow
From life's full qutver thrown,
While I might gaze…
The Ungained Height
Hope and MotivationThe Ungained Height
Gardner Weeks Wood
101-1
Gardner Weeks Wood in Harpers Monthly
If this be Life to count the languid hours
That drift as dreams from sun to setting sun;
Or, indolent, to watch the shadows run
Across some sturdier dial-stone…
The Little Match Girl
Hope and MotivationThe LIttle Match Girl
4904
"Come in little stranger" I said
As she tapped at niy half open door;
With a blanket pinned over her head
Which reached to the basket she bore
A look full of innocence fell
From her modest and pretty blue eye,…
The Ship That Never Returned
Hope and MotivationThe Ship that Never Returned
18010
On a summer's day, when the waves were rippled
By n soft and gentle breeze,
A ship set sall with a cargo laden
For port beyond the a sens
There were fond farewells,
There were loving amiles,
While their…
Marguerite
Hope and MotivationMarguerite
5606
Marguerite! Marguerite! my star of hope
I dread the day you'll forget me, Marguerite!
And still I know it soon will come,
The festive dance, the rich, the gay,
So different from our home, Marguerite!
I would not chide thee,…
When My Ship Comes In
Hope and MotivationWhen My Ship Comes In
1592
To Lyell
I have launched you my craft, and the
wind and the tide
Are drifting you outward to sea:
But the ocean is round and the farther you ride
The nearer you're coming to me
It is true I am lonely when dagdawn…
Land Of The Leaf
Hope and MotivationLand of the Leal
1705
Where are the greenest fields and where
The sweetest winds that ever blow,
And where has Hope excluded Care
Wherever I may be with you
Where is the fair and sacred land
That holds my loyalty in fee?
Where I may lead…
Reassured
Hope and MotivationREASSURED
3901
In days of good King Theodore strange things did come to pass
For puissant senators grow mild, like little boys at class;
And at King Theodore's command would leap head first through rings,
Sit up and beg play dead, and do…
Salvation
Hope and MotivationSalvation
-Writter Bynner
14
They woke me Sunday, and I looked
Out of my bed to see;
And then the way I felt rebuked
Suggested this to me:
Even the crudest curbstone prayer,
That rouses hearts anew,
Is nearer to the crystal stair
Than many…
The Wants Of Man
Hope and MotivationThe Wants of Man
5922
"Man wants but little here
Nor wants that little long"
'Tis not with me exactly so,
But 'ds so in the song
My wants are many, and if told
Would muster many a secre;
And were each wish a mint of gold
I still should…
The Passing Of An Auto-Crat
Hope and MotivationThe Auto-crat-oh, think of that!-he went a fearful pace;
He did not smile, through all the wholehe had a mobile face
He took no interest in man, yet sought the human race
The Auto-crat-oh, think of that!-I never saw him laugh;
In wreckage…