Tag Archive for: Hope

Guilty, Or Not Guilty

Guilty, 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

For 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

Too 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

The 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

Paul 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

The 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

THE 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

Miss 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

The 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

The 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

The 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

The 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

The 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

Marguerite 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

When 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

Land 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

REASSURED 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

Salvation -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

The 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

The 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…