Jeremiah, will you come?
_Lyman Bryson_ 31
Jock bit his mittens off and blew his thumbs.
_Percy MacKaye_ 16
Life, you have bruised me and chilled me; Fate,
you have jeered at my pain.
_Faith Baldwin_ 140
Muffled sounds of the city climbing to me at the window.
_Jessie Wallace Hughan_ 14
My father and mother were Irish.
_Edward J. O’Brien_ 13
Never again to feel that little kiss--
_Lydia Gibson_ 73
Nevermore.
_Don Marquis_ 145
Nothing but beauty, now.
_Amelia Josephine Burr_ 98
Not unto the forest--not unto the forest, O my lover!
_Margaret Widdemer_ 58
O’er ruined road past draggled field.
_Bartholomew F. Griffin_ 118
Oh calling, and calling, at the rising of the sun.
_E. Sutton_ 119
On these brown rocks the waves dissolve in spray.
_Alice Duer Miller_ 32
O shadows past the candle-gleam, so brief to pause in flight.
_Ruth Guthrie Harding_ 57
O thou among the Tuscan hills asleep.
_Ruth Shepard Phelps_ 135
Patience--but peace of heart we cannot choose.
_Percy MacKaye_ 125
Peace! But there is no peace. To hug the thought.
_Percy MacKaye_ 124
Perhaps it doesn’t matter that you died.
_Walter Conrad Arensberg_ 109
Sea-rimmed and teeming with millions poured out on thy granite shore.
_Edwin Davies Schoonmaker_ 45
She fears him, and will always ask.
_Edwin Arlington Robinson_ 70
Singer of England’s ire across the sea.
_Percy MacKaye_ 123
Sir, friends, and scholars, we are here to serve.
_Bliss Carman_ 3
Soft as a treader on mosses.
_Olive Tilford Dargan_ 94
Some for the sadness and sweetness of far evening bells.
_William Rose Benét_ 136
Strephon kissed me in the spring.
_Sara Teasdale_ 63
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