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April made me: winter laid me here away asleep.Bright as Maytime was my daytime; night is soft and deep:Though the...

Is there a whim-inspired fool,Owre fast for thought, owre hot for rule,Owre blate to seek, owre proud to snool,Let...

'Croak, croak, croak,'Thus the Raven spoke,Perched on his crooked treeAs hoarse as hoarse could be.Shun him and fear...

Born July 22, 1849; Died November 19, 1887.One hesitates to lift the veil and throw the light upon a life sohidden...

There are scenes in the distance where beauty is not,On the desolate flats where gaunt appletrees rot.Where the...

The rose-tints have faded from out of the West,From the Mountain's high peak, from the river's broad breast.And,...

O the precipice TitanicOf the congregated Fall,And the angle oceanicWhere the deepening thunders call -And the Gorge...

Let it not your wonder move,Less your laughter, that I love.Though I now write fifty years,I have had, and have, my...

That night the whole world mingled,The souls were babes at play,And angel danced with devil.And God cried,...

The sun is weary, for he ranSo far and fast to-day;The birds are weary, for who sangSo many songs as they?The bees...

Good fellows are laughing and drinking(To-night no heart should grieve),But I am of old days thinking,Alone, on...

Since Anna, whose bounty thy merits had fed,Ere her own was laid low, had exalted thy head:And since our good queen...

By those soft tods of woolWith which the air is full;By all those tinctures there,That paint the hemisphere;By dews...

A fool I was to sleep at noon,And wake when night is chillyBeneath the comfortless cold moon;A fool to pluck my rose...

Lady, very fair are you,And your eyes are very blue,And your hose;And your brow is like the snow,And the various...

I.Edina! Scotia's darling seat!All hail thy palaces and tow'rs,Where once beneath a monarch's feetSat Legislation's...

Calm resignation meets a happy end;And Providence, long-trusted, brings a friend.God's will be done, be patient and...

While virgin Spring, by Eden's flood,Unfolds her tender mantle green,Or pranks the sod in frolic mood,Or tunes 'olian...

The strong spring sun rejoicingly may rise,Rise and make revel, as of old men said,Like dancing hearts of lovers...

He was, through boyhood's storm and shower,My best, my nearest friend;We wore one hat, smoked one cigar,One standing...