Love Poems – Page 2805
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Labor
Pause not to dream of the future before us; / Pause not to weep the wild cares that come o’er us; / Hark! how Creation’s deep, musical chorus, … -
The Song of the Lower Classes
We plough and sow—we ’re so very, very low / That we delve in the dirty clay, / Till we bless the plain with the golden grain, … -
“The Man with the Hoe”: a Reply
“Let us a little permit Nature to take her own way: she better understands her own affairs than we.” / —MONTAIGNE, Of Experience. / NATURE reads not our labels, “great” and “small”; … -
Corn-Law Hymn
Lord! call thy pallid angel, / The tamer of the strong! / And bid him whip with want and woe … -
For a’ That and a’ That
Is there for honest poverty / Wha hangs his head, and a’ that? / The coward slave, we pass him by; … -
The Good Time Coming
There ’s a good time coming, boys. / A good time coming: / We may not live to see the day, … -
The Lotus-Eaters
I. / “courage!” he said, and pointed toward the land; / “This morning wave shall roll us shoreward soon.” … -
The Happy Heart
From “Patient Grissell,” Act I. Sc. 1. / ART thou poor, yet hast thou golden slumbers? / O sweet content! … -
The Cobbler and the Financier
From the French by Elizur Wright / A COBBLER sang from morn till night: / ’T was sweet and marvellous to hear; … -
Labor Done
From the German by Samuel Atkins Eliot / From “Song of the Bell” / LET us with care observe …
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