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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Fly for thy life, fleet, frightened crature, ...
There are blossoms in the garden, sweet and fa...
Oh! A jolly old place is grandpa's barn,
Wher...
A city deserted! How strangely still
Falls the...
Thou that of twilight art fashioned,
Starligh...
Cypris, when all but shone the dawn's glad bea...
Flow on, flow on, thou classic stream,
In q...
I am a slave! Oh why was I born!
Why was I mad...
Ye sunset clouds like flakes of gold,
That fl...
The lawn's green silk is softly drawn
About th...
I know what the caged bird feels, alas!
When ...
On the Moorish coast, chain-tethered,
Thus a...
ONE star alone on the bier, one only star.
O ...
Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind,
That from ...
I AM a woman--therefore I may not
Call to him,...
When the gold is on the willow, and the purple...
It was a summer evening,
Old Kaspar's work w...
The summer and autumn had been so wet,
That i...
Christmas-Eve! And all unruffled
Dumb white sp...
Golden-colored miller,
Leave the lamp, and f...
When I am a sea-flower
Under the cool green ti...
Flutter thy new wings lightly,
Poor, fearful...
Oh, East is East, and West is West, and neve...
Pretty little firefly
Luminous and bright,
W...