To My Books, by André Spire
YOU, you have given me my noblest pleasures,
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YOU, you have given me my noblest pleasures,
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Hail, generous Corsica! Unconquered isle!
The...
Heard ye the sound of the muffled drum
And the...
In the moonlit room your face,
Moonlight-colo...
I bring to thee, for love, white roses, deli...
As a most happy mother feels the stir
Of that ...
Hail thou unfledged! Thou nestling of an hour!
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Ye beauteous lips! Ye fair but wily twins!
Par...
Ask me where beauty is, I'll say
'Tis in swee...
O Death, the Consecrator!
Nothing so sanctifi...
Not where willow branches wave,
Lay them in n...
A year ago the moon, as now,
Crossed the sea...
LIVE!
(Thus seems it we should say to our belo...
He bides at home, and treasures all
That to h...
For Mrs. W. H. November 15, 1857. O I could e...
It seemeth such a little way to me
Across to t...
I "We sail'd beyond the great gates of the Wor...
The night was on the world, and in my sleep
I...
Great sire of life, and source of light,
Tho...
Maiden! With the meek, brown eyes,
In whose ...
Mortally wounded at Chancellorsville
--May, 1...
WEAPONS OF WAR AND CHASE They hang on the carv...
Now the good old Year is dead and gone
To the ...
Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defy, ...
Never in tender quiet lapsed the day
From Penn...