Category: Poetry
In this book, also, the author has aimed to give expression to the truth, that with every person, even if humble or debased, there may be some good, worth lifting up and saving; that in each human being, though revered and seemingly immaculate, are some faults which deserve po...
The lawyer, meanwhile, in his hiding-place cooped, Low-grunted and hitched and contorted and stooped, But hung to the place like a man in a dream; And when the young Irishman we...
2. Part 2Who will avenge you, darling? The sun that shines on high. He will paint the picture of your wrongs before the great world's eye. He will look upon your sweet soul, in its pure...
5. Part 5When, homesick, heart-sick, tired, and desolate, He leans himself 'gainst Learning's iron gate, While all the future frowns upon his track, And all the past conspires to pull hi...
6. Part 6Forward march! though that past lies in burial lands, We must toil in the future, with heads, hearts, and hands; Forward march! is the order that comes from on high, And rules t...
4. Part 4Cover the hands that are resting, half-tried, Crossed on the bosom, or low by the side: Hands to you, mother, in infancy thrown; Hands that you, father, close hid in your own; H...
7. Part 7Hurra! 'tis snowing! On street and house-roof, gently cast, The falling flakes come thick and fast; They wheel and curve from giddy height, And speck the chilly air with white!...
1. Part 1In this book, also, the author has aimed to give expression to the truth, that with every person, even if humble or debased, there may be some good, worth lifting up and saving;...
8. Part 8Who then, or what, this king of mighty fame? Whence comes his power, and what may be his name? May we not, with some show of truthful grace, Put The Waste Basket in that honored...