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Old And New by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Long have the poets vaunted, in their lays,
Old times, old loves, old friendships, and old wine
Wh..
Only Dreams by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A maiden sat in teh sunset glow
Of the shadowy, beautiful Long Ago,
That we see through a mist of..
Our Blessings by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Sitting to-day in the sunshine,
That touched me with fingers of love,
I thought of the manifold bl..
Old Times by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Friend of my youth, let us talk of old times;
Of the long lost golden hours.
When "Winter" meant o..
One Of Us Two by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The day will dawn when one of us shall hearken
In vain to hear a voice that has grown dumb.
And mo..
Off the Turnpike by Amy Lowell
Good ev’nin’, Mis’ Priest.
I jest stepped in to tell you Good-bye.
Yes, it’s all over.
All my thi..
On Carpaccio's Picture: The Dream of St. Ursula by Amy Lowell
Swept, clean, and still, across the polished floor
From some unshuttered casement, hid from sight,
..
Obligation by Amy Lowell
Hold your apron wide
That I may pour my gifts into it,
So that scarcely shall your two arms hinder..
Oscar Hummel by Edgar Lee Masters
I staggered on through darkness,
There was a hazy sky, a few stars
Which I followed as best I coul..
On a Bust by Edgar Lee Masters
A giant as we hoped, in truth, a dwarf;
A barrel of slop that shines on Lethe’s wharf’,
Which at f..
Oaks Tutt by Edgar Lee Masters
My mother was for woman’s rights
And my father was the rich miller at London Mills.
I dreamed of t..
Ollie McGee by Edgar Lee Masters
Have you seen walking through the village
A man with downcast eyes and haggard face?
That is my hu..
O Glorious France by Edgar Lee Masters
You have become a forge of snow-white fire,
A crucible of molten steel, O France!
Your sons are st..
On Eastnor Knoll by John Masefield
SILENT are the woods, and the dim green boughs are
Hushed in the twilight: yonder, in the path thro..
On Growing Old by John Masefield
Be with me, Beauty, for the fire is dying;
My dog and I are old, too old for roving.
Man, whose yo..
Observation Car by Alec Derwent Hope
To be put on the train and kissed and given my ticket,
Then the station slid backward, the shops an..
Old Deuteronomy by T. S. Eliot
Old Deuteronomy’s lived a long time;
He’s a Cat who has lived many lives in succession.
He was fam..
On The Skeleton Of A Hound by James Wright
Nightfall, that saw the morning-glories float
Tendril and string against the crumbling wall,
Nurse..
Outside Fargo, North Dakota by James Wright
Along the sprawled body of the derailed Great Northern freight car,
I strike a match slowly and lif..
On Prayer by Czeslaw Milosz
You ask me how to pray to someone who is not.
All I know is that prayer constructs a velvet bridge
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