Bird Songs, by Martha Lavinia Hoffman
The birds are happy, singing all day through
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The birds are happy, singing all day through
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From the blackness and darkness of chaos
Jehov...
Evil Enchantress spread thy raven wings,
Thy ...
Rocked on many a bending bough
Empty nests are...
Bring no fair flowers to deck this tomb
They o...
Had I but wings like thine,
Free bird of flig...
What are you singing my beautiful bird?
What a...
I have flown from you like a wounded bird
With...
There is music in the woodlands
When the birds...
Angel with the noiseless wings
Meek and gentle...
I am your prisoner, old mother earth,
A pris...
Welcome, glad morning, night's sable curtain
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The fool hath said, "There is no God"
But Wis...
Here within the alder's shadow, in this cool r...
Spread out thy ivory wings, bird of the waters...
I When the long twilight waned upon the rim
O...
The dawn had barely woke; the moon afar--
A si...
I wandered in the well-known path,
The sky wa...
I've read of the beautiful home of a King,
'T...
Marshall, April 29, 1859 I see him now,
A ...
Far, far away, where the sun goes down,
And...
A thrilling of winds through the forest,
A mu...
Cypris, when all but shone the dawn's glad bea...
'Why dost thou vex thy spirit, mother mine?
W...
Her Eros thus proclaimed the Cyprian Queen; --
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