The First Leaf Of Spring
The First Leaf Of Spring WRITTEN ON THE FIRST LEAF OF A LADY’S ALBUM. Thou fragile, filmy, gossamery thing, First leaf of spring! At every lightest […]
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The First Of April “Tell me what is the reason you hang down your head? From your blushes I plainly discern You have done something wrong. […]
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The First Tooth SISTER. Through the house what busy joy, Just because the infant boy Has a tiny tooth to show. I have got a double […]
READ MOREThe Force Of Habit
The Force Of Habit A little child, who had desired To go and see the Park guns fired, Was taken by his maid that way Upon […]
READ MOREThe Godlike
The Godlike In one great man we view with odds A parallel to all the gods. Great Jove, that shook heaven with his brow, Could never […]
READ MOREThe Great Grandfather
The Great Grandfather My father’s grandfather lives still, His age is fourscore years and ten; He looks a monument of time, The agedest of aged men. […]
READ MOREThe Journey From School And To School
The Journey From School And To School O what a joyous joyous day Is that on which we come At the recess from school away, Each […]
READ MOREThe Lame Brother
The Lame Brother My parents sleep both in one grave; My only friend’s a brother. The dearest things upon the earth We are to one another. […]
READ MOREThe Magpie’s Nest, Or A Lesson Of Docility
The Magpie’s Nest, Or A Lesson Of Docility A FABLE When the arts in their infancy were, In a fable of old ’tis exprest, A wise […]
READ MOREThe Men And Women, And The Monkeys
The Men And Women, And The Monkeys A FABLE When beasts by words their meanings could declare, Some well-dressed men and women did repair To gaze […]
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