anthony - Popular Poems and stories from category

When suddenly, at midnight, you hearan invisible procession going bywith exquisite music, voices,don't mourn your luck that's failing now,work gone wrong, your plansall proving deceptive — don't mourn them uselessly
As one long prepared, and ...

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IT was a fair and gentle child Stood leaning by his mother's knee;
His noble brow was smooth and mild-- His eyes shone bright with frolic glee-- And he was stately, though so young;
As from a noble lineage sprung