A liberty bond! What a queer contradiction! Although truth, as you've heard, may be stranger than fiction. For Liberty should from all fetters release us, While bonds hold one fast, whether pauper or Croesus....
"One time when I was pleasing to you, Lydia, And when no other youth, preferred to me, Your snowy neck could with his arms encircle, Then happier I than Persia's King may be." ...
If Love were all, how dark the world! What sorrow for the stricken heart! If Love were all, with Love grown cold - No tempest raging bleak and bold, Its icy fury ever hurled...
"Death after life" shall we sigh as we say it, Sigh as if death were the end for us all, Pale at the thought, as in silence we weigh it, Yield our dull souls to it, bending in thrall? ...
Crinkled oak-leaves, twinkling in the sun, Splashed by midday showers, dripping cold - Serrate oak-leaves, silvered by the sun That has brushed yon dull brown grass with gold. ...
Oh, the noise of Piccadilly - its rumble and its roar! A tide of life's broad ocean surging toward the shore. Who once has listened, ever can hear its long refrain...
I'm always glad when Christmas comes, and yet I'd like it better; If mother wouldn't bother me to write a Christmas letter To uncle John and Cousin Kate and dear old Grand-aunt Gray,...
I'm sure I did not break this cup; It just fell down, - I know it did - For I was only climbing up, Why do they keep the cake-box hid? - I wanted such a little bit! And then I heard that creaking door,...
Sorrowful pleading on her face is written With love commingled, and my heart throbs fast, Flooded with currents of a deep emotion Stirred by the memory of that awful past....
Seek not to learn - Leucono', - a mortal may not know - What term of life on you or me our deities bestow. The Babylonian soothsayer consult not; better bear...