Louisa May Alcott Poems

Little shadows, little shadows
Dancing on the chamber wall,
While I sit beside the hearthstone
Where the red flames rise and fall.
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From our happy home
Through the world we roam
One week in all the year,
Making winter spring
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'Chevalita,
Pretty cretr,
I do love her
Like a brother;
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Oft, in the silence of the night,
When the lonely moon rides high,
When wintry winds are whistling,
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Mysterious death! who in a single hour
Life's gold can so refine
And by thy art divine
Change mortal weakness to immortal power!
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'We are sending you, dear flowers,
Forth alone to die,
Where your gentle sisters may not weep
O'er the cold graves where you lie;
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THE moon upon the wide sea
Placidly looks down,
Smiling with her mild face,
Though the ocean frown.
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Swallow, swallow, neighbor swallow,
Starting on your autumn flight,
Pause a moment at my window,
Twitter softly your good-night;
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'For myself alone, I would not be
Ambitious in my wish; but, for you,
I would be trebled twenty times myself;
A thousand times more fair,
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'Here's a nut, there's a nut;
Hide it quick away,
In a hole, under leaves,
To eat some winter day.
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