English Poems – Page 146

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• In a China Shop

  A Dresden shepherdess was one day
  Milking a small Delft cow,
  When a Sevres Marquis came along— …

  George Sidney Hellman

• Classical Criticism

  21 B. C.
  OLD Horace on a summer afternoon,
  Well primed with sweet Falernian, let us say, …

  George Lynde Richardson

• For Sale, a Horse

  In good condition,
  Cheap, on account of competition,
  Well-broken, easy on his bridle, …

  Charles Edward Taylor

• Persicos Odi

  Boy, I detest these modern innovations,
  The Voice crusade may alter some men’s habit,
  But, as for me, I ’ll stick to my old rations, …

  Charles Edmund Merrill, Jr

• Miss Nancy's Gown

  In days when George the Third was King
  And ruled the Old Dominion,
  And Law and Fashion owned the sway …

  Zitella Cocke

• The Journey

  Reluctantly I laid aside my smiles,
  Those little, pleasing knickknacks of the face,
  And dropped the words accustomed to my tongue, …

  Mary Berri (Chapman) Hansbrough

• Little Theocritus

  Ye white Sicilian goats, who wander all
  About the slopes of this wild mountain pass,
  Take heed your horny footsteps do not fall …

  Caroline Wilder (Fellowes) Paradise

• Now Is the Cherry in Blossom

  Now is the cherry in blossom, Love,
  Love of my heart, with the apple to follow;
  Over the village at nightfall now …

  Mary Eleanor Wilkins

• Gold-of-Ophir Roses

  1
  o Flower of passion, rocked by balmy gales,
  Flushed with life’s ecstasy, …

  Grace Atherton Dennen

• I Know Not Why

  I Lift mine eyes against the sky,
  The clouds are weeping, so am I;
  I lift mine eyes again on high, …

  Morris Rosenfeld

• Gentian

  So all day long I followed through the fields
  The voice of Autumn, calling from afar;
  And now I thought: “Yon hazel thicket yields …

  Elizabeth Green Crane

• Dryad Song

  I Am immortal! I know it! I feel it!
  Hope floods my heart with delight!
  Running on air mad with life dizzy, reeling, …

  Margaret Fuller

• Sing Again

  YOU sang me a song:
  ’T was the close of the year—
  Sing again! …

  Marie Van Vorst

• The Parting of the Ways - Gilder

  Untrammelled Giant of the West,
  With all of Nature’s gifts endowed,
  With all of Heaven’s mercies blessed, …

  Joseph B

• The Baby

  From the Sanscrit by Sir William Jones
  On parents’ knees, a naked, new-born child,
  Weeping thou sat’st when all around thee smiled: …

  Kalidasa

• Birth

  Just when each bud was big with bloom,
  And as prophetic of perfume,
  When spring, with her ight horoscope, …

  Annie R. Stillman

• Weighing the Baby

  “how many pounds does the baby weigh—
  Baby who came but a month ago?
  How many pounds from the crowning curl …

  Ethelinda Elliott Beers

• Laus Infantium

  In praise of little children I will say
  God first made man, then found a better way
  For woman, but his third way was the best. …

  William Canton

• Étude Réaliste

  I.
  a Baby’s feet, like sea-shells pink,
  Might tempt, should Heaven see meet, …

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

• The Angel’s Whisper

  [In Ireland they have a pretty fancy that when a child smiles in its sleep it is “talking with angels.”]
  A BABY was sleeping;
  Its mother was weeping; …

  Samuel Lover

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