Category: Poetry
SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY (Susan Coolidge) was born in Cleveland, Ohio, January 29, 1835. Her father, John M. Woolsey, a New Yorker, had come to Cleveland to attend to property owned by his father, and had there met Jane Andrews, a charming and graceful girl from Connecticut, who...
AH, little David! least of all thy kin, Fresh from the thyme-sweet meads of Thessaly, Where the cool pastures overhang the sea, Leaving thy sheep to join the battle’s din: Here...
5. Part 5Send forth the servants of Thy love and power, These whom no man hath hired make Thine own. Before the spent sun vanish in the west Let the brief toil the ill-spent day atone, A...
4. Part 4Scorning such human accidents, Broadening their green circumference, Each year made taller, statelier still, The pine trees topped the wind-swept hill, And surged responsive mel...
2. Part 2Was it some subtle prescience of the heart, Which laid on time and change resistless spell, Forbidding both to hide or hold apart The resting-place of those who loved so well?
1. Part 1SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY (Susan Coolidge) was born in Cleveland, Ohio, January 29, 1835. Her father, John M. Woolsey, a New Yorker, had come to Cleveland to attend to property own...
6. Part 6Happiness is an easy thing When summer airs fan summer skies, And birds in all the branches sing; Or in the budding days of spring, When life springs up renewed and fair, And jo...