Here - am I here? Or is it fancy, born of fear? Yes - O God, save me! - this is I, And not some wretch of whom I've read, In that bright girlhood, when the sky...
Yellow, mellow, ripened days, Sheltered in a golden coating; O'er the dreamy, listless haze, White and dainty cloudlets floating; Winking at the blushing trees, And the sombre, furrowed fallow;...
They're taking me to the gallows, mother--they mean to hang me high; They're going to gather round me there, and watch me till I die; All earthly joy has vanished now, and gone each mortal hope,--...
My business on the jury's done--the quibblin' all is through-- I've watched the lawyers right and left, and give my verdict true; I stuck so long unto my chair, I thought I would grow in;...
I. The great procession came up the street, With clatter of hoofs and tramp of feet; There was General Jones to guide the van, And Corporal Jinks, his right-hand man; And each was riding his high horse,...
If I'd a million millions - Just think! a million millions! - What wouldn't I do - what couldn't I do - If I'd a million millions? From every forest's finest tree My many-gabled house should be;...
By the edge of the Atlantic, where the waves of Freedom roar, And the breezes of the ocean chant a requiem to the shore, On the Nation's eastern hill-tops, where its corner-stone was laid,...
Yes, it's straight and true, good Preacher, every word that you have said; Do not think these tears unmanly - they're the first ones I have shed! But they kind o' beat and pounded 'gainst my aching heart and brain,...
He lay on the beach, just out of the reach Of waves that had cast him by: With fingers grim they reached for him As often as they came nigh. The shore-face brown had a surly frown,...