Mysterious death! who in a single hourLife’s gold can so refineAnd by thy art...
Louisa May Alcott
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Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet who lived from 1832 to 1888. She is best known for writing the novel Little Women and its sequels, which are loosely based on her own childhood experiences with her three sisters. She was also an abolitionist, a feminist, and a pioneer of women’s suffrage in the United States. |
We sighing said, “Our Pan is dead;His pipe hangs mute beside the riverAround it...
O lesson well and wisely taughtStay with me to the last,That all my life...
O flower at my windowWhy blossom you so fair,With your green and purple cupUpturned...
Oh! a bare, brown rockStood up in the sea,The waves at its feetDancing merrily....
Long ago in a poultry yardOne dull November morn,Beneath a motherly soft wingA little...
Brighter shone the golden shadows;On the cool wind softly cameThe low, sweet tones of...
We are sending you, dear flowersForth alone to die,Where your gentle sisters may not...
A little kingdom I possesswhere thoughts and feelings dwell,And very hard I find the...
Now the day is done,Now the shepherd sunDrives his white flocks from the sky;Now...