Mary Weston Fordham Poems

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1.
October

Bright and beautiful art thou,
Autumn flowers crown thy brow,
Golden-rod and Aster blue,
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2.
Shipwreck

Night and a starless sky,
Ship on wild billows tost,
With tattered sails and opening seams,
And deck bestrewn with falling beams,
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3.
Sunset

All hail! thou gorgeous sunset,
With thy gold and purple clouds,
Tinting the vast horizon,
Like shadowy, fleecy shrouds.
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4.
Atlanta Exposition Ode

'Cast down your bucket where you are,'
From burning sands or Polar star
From where the iceberg rears its head
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5.
The Cherokee

'Twas a cloudless morn and the sun shone bright,
And dewdrops sparkled clear;
And the hills and the vales of this Western land
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6.
Serenade

Sleep, love sleep,
The night winds sigh,
In soft lullaby.
The Lark is at rest
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7.
Stars And Stripes

Hail Flag of the Union! Hail Flag of the free!
That floateth so proudly o'er land and o'er sea
Thy Stars and thy Stripes, in grandeur doth wave
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8.
Chicago Exposition Ode

Columbia, all hail!
May thy banner ne'er be furled
Till Liberty, with her beauteous rays,
Enlighten all the world.
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9.
The Coming Woman

Just look, 'tis a quarter past six, love-
And not even the fires are caught;
Well, you know I must be at the office-
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10.
Bells Of St. Michael

Come and listen to the chiming
Of St. Michael's merry bells,
When the joyous Christmas morning,
All of Bethlehem's story tells.
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