#AmericanWriters
HER hair was beautifully white Beneath her bonnet, black as night… Which, plainly of New England kin… Was tied with strings beneath her… And when she spoke I had no choic…
THE clear young voices rise and s… Pray for the peace of Jerusalem:… Shall prosper that love thee.’ Ye… Harbors the hope that he may have… In war– the roar of guns, the roll…
THE great religions, like men gre… Draw to them even those of hostile… Many a barbarian in Athens knew The temple porches who was grossly… To any god save one long left behi…
(Her lover speaks.) AN equal love between a man and w… This is the only charm to set us f… And this the only omen Of immortality.
‘NOT that you’ll like him,' Nell… ‘No mystery - no romance, A fine, stern, eagle-like head, But he simply reeks of finance, - Started from nothing - self-made -…
THE house is bright with lights a… Like a palace in the Arabian Nigh… Lights in festoons and lights in c… In chandeliers and crystal lustres… And all the length of the stairs’…
WON’T it be curious when I am de… Some one, unknown to me, here in m… Curious surely for others to see Trifles I made or marred outlasti… All my possessions - bracelets and…
AND will you rest at last, storm-… In this poor heart, who would your… Will you sink down at last, conten… The common treaures of tranquillit… Will you forget your high and fier…
Her old love in tears and silence… Ringed by moats and flanked with t… ‘Here,’ he said, 'will come no whi… In these granite walls imprisoned,… As he spoke along the highway ther…
LAST night I saw a city by the s… Outlined in sparks of fire; Those wreathed lamps made all a fa… Arch, dome and spire. I saw above the waters pale and gr…
O FRANCE, with what a shamed an… We now recall that in a bygone day We sought of you art, wit, perfect… You were to us a playground and a… Paris was ours - its sudden green…
THE white cat is sleeping by the… With her paws tucked under her chi… Very tame and gentle she is sleepi… Whom I saw but now come in, Come in from the dark night and th…
(' Women are often tempters to sexual sin and delight in it. . . A recent report of a female probation officer relates that some of the girls who, as we may say euphemistically’ had gon...
HE (after a pause): Dear, are you… SHE: Yes, though not at you, But at myself. Of course, we know… That when a man respects a girl... HE (interrupting): I thought
THERE is a magic pathway through… There is a current in the troubled… A happy course to steer, if one bu… A meaning to the dream. And some in love and some in dogma…