Author: quotesroot
Granny Ada Cambridge Here, in her elbow chair, she sits A soul alert, alive, A poor old body shrunk and bent – The queen-bee of the hive. …
Good-Bye Ada Cambridge Good-bye! — ’tis like a churchyard bell — good-bye! Poor weeping eyes! Poor head, bowed down with woe! Kiss me again, dear love, before you …
Good Night Ada Cambridge 1. Love, thou hast wandered far and wide, But here thy wanderings cease; Thy long- sought mate is by thy side, And thou …
Fashion Ada Cambridge See those resplendent creatures, as they glide O’er scarlet carpet, between footmen tall, From sumptuous carriage to effulgent hall – A dazzling vision in their …
Fallen Ada Cambridge For want of bread to eat and clothes to wear — Because work failed and streets were deep in snow, And this meant food and …
Faith Ada Cambridge And is the great cause lost beyond recall? Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught? …
Evensong Ada Cambridge The sun has set; grey shadows darken slowly The rose-red cloud-hills that were bathed in light. O Lord, to Thee, with spirit meek and lowly, I …
Empty Ada Cambridge Can this be my poem?—this poor fragment Of bald thought in meanest language dressed! Can this string of rhymes be my sweet poem? All its …
Drunk And Disorderly Ada Cambridge Poor, staggering brute, whom one and all disdain! Maybe ’twas outraged Nature bade him slake His thirst like this — to still the gnawing …
Drunk Ada Cambridge The filthy beast! And is he here again, With his foul slobbering mouth and shuffling feet, To taint the atmosphere and shame the street, And …