Poems by Martha Lavinia Hoffman

Is there beyond this life's narrow horizon,
Is there beyond this life's ocean distressed,
Cal...

Not a vast realm of haloed space
Where mellow beams of soft shadows chase
And seas of lovelines...

The gates swung back on golden hinges turned
Their pearl-hewn massive panels noiselessly,
And ...

Across the sleeper's dreamless rest,
The chills of death like shadows creep;
But pillowed on ...

Backward across the lapse of years,
With its ebbing tide of smiles and tears,
Memory turns he...

Glad is my heart this Autumn morn
Though oft by cruel fortune torn;
Happy I am, though bitter...

Before, behind, on either side they rise,
Roots in the ground and summits in the skies,
Hug...

What are you singing my beautiful bird?
What are the words of your song?
How can you carol when...

(The last word spoken by Napoleon the Great, before his death, in the prison at St. Helena, wa...

Ye brilliant orbs that deck the sky,
Shrouded in deepest mystery,
To thee my song I sing!
I ...

What would life be if these few years
Of thankless toil and bitter tears
Were all and naught be...

These zigzag paths we travel
May change, we know not when,
Diverging far and farther,
To ne...

Queenly lily, fair and fragrant,
I have watched thy charms unroll
'Till thy gold embossed sce...

I love the night, the solemn night,
With all her twinkling glittering host;
And, though the...

Be not vain, oh, beautiful maiden!
Though thine eyes shine like violets blue,
THough thy lip...