Trumbull Stickney Life Poems

  • 1.
    Chide me not, darling, that I sing
    Familiar thoughts and metres old:
    Nay, do not scold
    My spirit's childish uttering.
    ...
  • 2.
    You say, Columbus with his argosies
    Who rash and greedy took the screaming main
    And vanished out before the hurricane
    Into the sunset after merchandise,
    ...
  • 3.
    Tho' lack of laurels and of wreaths not one
    Prove you our lives abortive, shall we yet
    Vaunt us our single aim, our hearts full set
    To win the guerdon which is never won.
    ...
  • 4.
    Be still. The Hanging Gardens were a dream
    That over Persian roses flew to kiss
    The curlèd lashes of Semiramis.
    Troy never was, nor green Skamander stream.
    ...
  • 5.
    By such an all-embalming summer day
    As sweetens now among the mountain pines
    Down to the cornland yonder and the vines,
    To where the sky and sea are mixed in gray,
    ...
  • 6.
    That day her eyes were deep as night.
    She had the motion of the rose,
    The bird that veers across the light,
    The waterfall that leaps and throws
    ...
  • 7.
    Be still. The Hanging Gardens were a dream
    That over Persian roses flew to kiss
    The curlèd lashes of Semiramis.
    Troy never was, nor green Skamander stream.
    ...
Total 7 Life Poems by Trumbull Stickney

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