You left me, sweet, two legacies, --A legacy of loveA Heavenly Father would content,Had He the offer of;You left me boundaries of painCapacious as the...
Mine by the right of the white election!Mine by the royal seal!Mine by the sign in the scarlet prisonBars cannot conceal!Mine, here in vision and in v...
The brain within its grooveRuns evenly and true;But let a splinter swerve,'T were easier for youTo put the water backWhen floods have slit the hil...
Belshazzar had a letter, --He never had but one;Belshazzar's correspondentConcluded and begunIn that immortal copyThe conscience of us allCan read...
'T was such a little, little boatThat toddled down the bay!'T was such a gallant, gallant seaThat beckoned it away!'T was such a greedy, g...
I had no time to hate, becauseThe grave would hinder me,And life was not so ample ICould finish enmity.Nor had I time to love; but sinceSome industry ...
He ate and drank the precious words,His spirit grew robust;He knew no more that he was poor,Nor that his frame was dust.He danced along the dingy days...
Pain has an element of blank;It cannot recollectWhen it began, or if there wereA day when it was not.It has no future but itself,Its infinite realms c...
Read, sweet, how others strove,Till we are stouter;What they renounced,Till we are less afraid;How many times they boreThe faithful witness,Till we ar...
To fight aloud is very brave,But gallanter, I know,Who charge within the bosom,The cavalry of woe.Who win, and nations do not see,Who fall, and none o...