My Boyish Days, by C. B. Langston
My boyish days are long past now,
Time's sile...
My boyish days are long past now,
Time's sile...
Thou gaudy insect! Fickle wanderer!
Thou art a...
Come forth, come forth, ye virgins, and prep...
I hear, O friend, the fatal news
Of Heraclit...
What force, what sudden impulse thus can make
...
O when, my soul, wilt thou resound the praise...
Tho' great Apollo claim the poet's lyre,
Yet ...
A long-legged gnat with airy wings, a dart
Sh...
The wind hath whirled the leaves from off the t...
Each flower is a sentinel of God,
And ev'ry t...
O Ariel, tricksy and dainty,
You spirit of f...
His hand in hold so trigger tight its blood
be...
In Texas, where the Wichita
Enrodes a gash, ...
This is the Beach whereon the white foam flies
...
I went to bed with Shakespeare's flowing number...
Where's nature's breast with anguish riven,
U...
My beautiful lilies down under the snow,
Hast...
Dawnings of amber and amethyst eves;
Soft in ...
Your hands lie open in the long fresh grass, --...
Are ye unholy shadows, that by fits
Start fro...
Bright bird on yonder dreary, leafless tree,
...
A star that glimmers in the far-off gray
Of ev...
Down the silent Mississippi, with his saintly ...
I Love, though for this you riddle me with da...
The great Missouri, that when Spring was young...