Poems by Martha Lavinia Hoffman

Down through the ancient corridors of Time
Isaiah's deathless song rolled full and sweet,
It s...

Room for the roses, make room for the roses,
Coming by hundreds, a conquering race;
Not wit...

I would sing of the roses
Their fragrance, their color, their form;
The beautiful fragrant s...

Where the palm groves and bananas in the sunny Tropics thrive,
Where the parrots' lively chatte...

The war-song and the battle-hymn
Their stirring notes have stilled;
That oft in vally, ghastl...

When the Summer moonlight evening, weird, fantastic shades creating,
Wrapped within her sombr...

A viewless Spirit walks this changing earth
All unattended in her artless grace,
Phantoms of s...

Poets have sung of the spirit realm
And sages discoursed in tones sublime
Of the land where the...

I am sitting in the gloaming,
In the gloaming all alone;
Listening only to the moaning
Of th...

O lark, whose joyous warbling comes
Across the flowery field to me;
O red-winged leaders of t...

Bright little day stars
Scattered all over the earth,
Ye drape the house of mourning
And ye d...

Kneeling at her window,
Solemn eyes uplifted
To blue skies, where sunbeams
Through soft clou...

Trees of the forest and the wooded glen,
Say will ye claim companionship with men
Who with a s...

Here within the alder's shadow, in this cool retreat,
Sheltered by the leafy branches
From th...

Under the violets blue, under the lilies white
Dearest, must I or you hidden be first from sig...