Tag: English Poem
A Promise Ada Cambridge 1. Should’st thou, in grip of dread disease, Foresee the day when thou must die, With no more hope of life or ease, …
A Prayer Ada Cambridge Spirit and Breath of Life, whate’er Thy name! Bear with Thy creature, Man, That makes his dwelling-place a blot of shame Upon the Ordered …
A Lesson Ada Cambridge 1. I know now why the world was sad, With so much good to make it glad; Why all things loveliest and best Have stirred …
A Dream of Venice Ada Cambridge NUMB, half asleep, and dazed with whirl of wheels, And gasp of steam, and measured clank of chains, I heard a blithe voice …
Verse on Lee’s Invasion of The North By Abraham Lincoln Gen. Lees invasion of the North written by himself— In eighteen sixty three, with pomp, and mighty …
To Rosa By Abraham Lincoln You are young, and I am older; You are hopeful, I am not – Enjoy life, ere it grow colder – Pluck the roses …
The Suicide’s Soliloquy By Abraham Lincoln Here, where the lonely hooting owl Sends forth his midnight moans, Fierce wolves shall o’er my carcase growl, Or buzzards pick my …
The Bear Hunt By Abraham Lincoln A wild-bear chace, didst never see? Then hast thou lived in vain. Thy richest bump of glorious glee, Lies desert in thy …
My Childhood Home I See Again By Abraham Lincoln I My childhood’s home I see again, And sadden with the view; And still, as memory crowds my brain, …
Memory By Abraham Lincoln MY childhood’s home I see again, And sadden with the view; And still, as memory crowds my brain, There’s pleasure in it, too. …