Louisa May Alcott

Sitting patient in the shadow
Till the blessed light shall come,
A serene and saintly presence
Sanctifies our troubled home.…

Oft, in the silence of the night, When the lonely moon rides high,
When wintry winds are whistling, And we hear the owl's shrill cry,
In the quiet, dusky chamber, By the flickering firelight,
Rising up between two sleepers, Comes a…

I am the monarch of the Sea,
The ruler of the Queen's Navee,--
When at anchor here I ride,
My bosom swells with pride

"Beds to the front of them,
Beds to the right of them,
Beds to the left of them,
Nobody blundered.

"J'avais une colombe blanche,
J'avais un blanc petit pigeon,
Tous deux volaient, de branche en branche,
Jusqu'au faîte de mon dongeon:

"Not a sparrow falleth but its God doth know,
Just as when his mandate lays a monarch low;
Not a leaflet moveth, but its God doth see,
Think not, then, O mortal, God forgetteth thee.…

"Now hark, little May,
If you want to do right,
Under your pillow
Just look every night.…

Oh! a bare, brown
Stood up in the sea,
The waves at its
Dancing merrily.

"Here is the bracelet
For good little May
To wear on her arm
By night and by day.…

"Gingerbread,
Go to the head.
Your task is done;
A soul is won.

A LITTLE grey curl from my father's head
I find unburned on the hearth,
And give it a place in my diary here,
With a feeling half sadness, half mirth.…

Awake!
Awake! for the earliest
Of golden sunlight
On the rippling waves, that brightly

"In China there lived a little man,
His name was Chingery Wangery Chan.""His legs were short, his feet were small,
And this little man could not walk at all.""Chingery changery ri co day,
Ekel tekel happy man;…

"I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty;
I woke, and found that life was duty.
Was thy dream then a shadowy lie?
Toil on, sad heart, courageously

"Sweet! Sweet!
Come, come and eat,
Dear little girls
With yellow curls;…

''Y' are the maiden posies,
And so graced,
To be placed
Fore damask roses.…

HE moon upon the wide sea Placidly looks down,
Smiling with her mild face,
Though the ocean frown.
Clouds may dim her brightness

TE my chamber window,
On the sunny roof, at play,
High above the city's tumult,
Flocks of doves sit day by day.

My bonnie flower, with truest joy
Thy welcome face I see,
The world grows brighter to my eyes,
And summer comes with thee.…

"Listening to celestial lays,
Bending thy unclouded gaze
On the pure and living light,
Thou art blest, Aslauga's Knight!"

"Rosy, my dear,
Don't cry,--I'm here
To help you all I can.
I'm only a fly,…

The moonlight fades from flower and
And the stars dim one by one;
The tale is told, the song is sung,
And the Fairy feast is done.

Little shadows, little
Dancing on the chamber wall,
While I sit beside the
Where the red flames rise and fall.

Two Yankee maids of simple mien,
And earnest, high endeavour,
Come sailing to the land of France,
To escape the winter weather.…