“What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.” LoveInspirationBeautifulDiesStarsBeautyAirSeaFlowerLovelyDustSympathyTime PassingLovelinessFoamMy SympathyWords Of SympathySympathy For LossCondolences And SympathyWords Of CondolenceSympathy Messages Book:The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Poems Source: The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Poems
“Wide open and unguarded stand our gates, and through them presses a wild motley throng, men from the Volga and the Tartar steppes, featureless figures of the Hoang-Ho, Malayan, Scythian, Teuton, Kelt, and Slav. Flying the Old World's poverty and scorn, these bringing with them unknown gods and rites, Ttose, tiger passions, here to stretch their claws in street and alley. What strange tongues are loud accents of menace alien to our air, voices that once the Tower of Babel knew! O Liberty, white Goddess! Is it well to leave the gates unguarded?” MenWorldWellsPassionVoiceWhiteLibertyPovertyAirStreetsFiguresStrangePressesWideTongueFlyingImmigrationAliensLoudGatesGoddessAccentsTowersTigersScornMenaceAlleysClawsRiteOld WorldBabelTower Of Babel Author:Thomas Bailey Aldrich
“Hebe's here, May is here! The air is fresh and sunny; And the miser-bees are busy Hoarding golden honey.” MayAirBusyGoldenHoneyBeesSunnyMisersHoardingMay DaySpring May Book:The Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich Source: The Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich
“Those forms we fancy shadows, those strange lights That flash on dank morasses, the quick wind That smites us by the roadside—are the Night's Innumerable children. Unconfined By shroud or coffin, disembodied souls, Uneasy spirits, steal into the air From festering graveyards when the curfew tolls At the day's death... And wheresoever murders have been done, In stately palaces or lonesome woods, Where'er a soul has sold itself and lost Its high inheritance, there, hovering, broods Some sad, invisible, accurséd Ghost!” ChildrenHas BeensSoulDoneLightFormSpiritNightLostAirStrangeWindShadowMurderWoodsInvisibleStealingGhostFancyFlashInheritancePalacesGraveyardCoffinsUneasyTollsLonesomeHoveringShroudsRoadsideCurfewDankFestering Book:The Ballad of Babie Bell, and Other Poems Source: The Ballad of Babie Bell, and Other Poems
