Elizabeth Akers Allen
1832–1911
Best-known poems
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Rock Me to Sleep
Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight,
Make me a child again just for to-night!
Mother, come back from the echoless shore, … -
At Last
At last, when all the summer shine
That warmed life's early hours is past,
Your loving fingers seek for mine … -
Sea-Birds
O lonesome sea-gull, floating far
Over the ocean’s icy waste,
Aimless and wide thy wanderings are, …
All poems (9)
- At LastAt last, when all the summer shine
- In a GarretThis realm is sacred to the silent past;
- LastFriend, whose smile has come to be
- Little FeetTwo little feet, so small that both may nestle
- My DearlingMy dearling!—thus, in days long fled,
- Rock Me to SleepBackward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight,
- Sea-BirdsO lonesome sea-gull, floating far
- The Last LandlordYou who dread the cares and labors
- The TelltaleOnce, on a golden afternoon,
