Thomas Bailey Aldrich
At the beginning of the twentieth century barbarism can throw off its gentle disguise, and burn a man at the stake as complacently as in the Middle Ages.Collection: Men
What probing deep Has ever solved the mystery of sleep?Collection: Sleep
With the tears a Land hath shed. Their graves should ever be green.Collection: Memorial Day
Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows in yonder West; the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps and archipelagoes and great cloud continents of sunset-seas.Collection: Sunset
Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!Collection: Sleep