'Hope' is the thing with feathers—
That perches in the soul—...more

WHEN by my solitary hearth I sit,
And hateful thoughts enwrap my soul in gloom;
When no fair dreams before my "mind's eye" flit,
And the bare heath of life presents no bloom;...more

Hope was but a timid friend;
She sat without the grated den,
Watching how my fate would tend,
Even as selfish-hearted men. ...more

"Delicta juventutis et ignorantius ejus, quoesumus ne memineris, Domine."


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It is dark, no moon, no light
Just darkness, a starless sky
The wind blows, the waves break
A single firefly passes by...more

Beautiful Evelyn Hope is dead!
Sit and watch by her side an hour.
That is her book-shelf, this her bed;
She plucked that piece of geranium-flower,
Beginning to die too, in the glass;...more

The spirit killeth, but the letter giveth life.
The week is dealt out like a hand
That children pick up card by card.
One keeps getting the same hand....more

Hope is a tattered flag and a dream of time.
Hope is a heartspun word, the rainbow, the shadblow in white
The evening star inviolable over the coal mines,
The shimmer of northern lights across a bitter winter night,...more

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Hope holds to Christ the mind’s own mirror out
To take His lovely likeness more and more.
It will not well, so she would bring about...more

I hope your happy with your life
I hope your happy with your wife
I hope you see what you have done
I hope you see that this is all wrong...more

We speak with the lip, and we dream in the soul,
Of some better and fairer day;
And our days, the meanwhile, to that golden goal
Are gliding and sliding away....more

Is there another world for this frail dust
To warm with life and be itself again?
Something about me daily speaks there must,
And why should instinct nourish hopes in vain?...more

All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair--
The bees are stirring--birds are on the wing--
And WINTER slumbering in the open air,
Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring !...more

O sweet To-morrow! -
   After to-day
   There will away
This sense of sorrow....more

Soar not too high, O bird of Hope!
Because the skies are fair;
The tempest may come on apace
And overcome thee there....more

Oh, they have robbed me of the hope
My spirit held so dear;
They will not let me hear that voice
My soul delights to hear. ...more

SINCE thou hast given me this good hope, O God,
That while my footsteps tread the flowery sod
And the great woods embower me, and white dawn
And purple even sweetly lead me on...more

Dare I hope to hope?
Is it safe? Is it right?
Am I hoping for nothing
But a black and empty night?...more

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When the desperation hit
When the people cried in the streets
When everything felt at loss
Hope stayed, even though fleaing would be easier...more

Now let no charitable hope
Confuse my mind with images
Of eagle and of antelope:
I am by nature none of these....more

Cherish you then the hope I shall forget
At length, my lord, Pieria?—put away
For your so passing sake, this mouth of clay
These mortal bones against my body set,...more

Hope

Hope and Faith go hand in hand.
Hope for the future....more

Strong are thine arms, O love, & strong
Thine heart to live, and love, and long;
But thou art wed to grief and wrong:...more

Im not crazy
Im not dreaming

I hope...more

Today we face the trying times
Of heartache and pain.
Many hopes and dreams are shattered,
And prayers seem to be in vain....more

PART I (excerpt)
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Where barbarous hordes on Scythian mountains roam,
Truth, Mercy, Freedom, yet shall find a home;...more

Hope Was Hoping
That Hopefully
It would be
Able to Fulfil...more

So many
Different dreary worlds,
That it’s hard to make a choice,
Hard to choose at all,...more

Though I have watched so many mourners weep
O'er the real dead, in dull earth laid asleep—
Those dead seemed but the shadows of my days
That passed and left me in the sun's bright rays....more

When Hope but made Tranquillity be felt--
A Flight of Hopes for ever on the wing
But made Tranquillity a conscious Thing--
And wheeling round and round in sportive coil...more

The Tree of Knowledge we in Eden prov'd;
The Tree of Life was thence to Heav'n remov'd:
Hope is the growth of Earth, the only Plant,
Which either Heav'n, or Paradise cou'd want....more

Delusive Hope! more transient than the ray
That leads pale twilight to her dusky bed,
O'er woodland glen, or breezy mountain's head,
Ling'ring to catch the parting sigh of day....more

I hope you surf the waves in form the ocean,
Big and small.
I hope you watch the sunset,
From a mountain straight and tall....more

I was a grovelling creature once,
And basely cleaved to earth:
I wanted spirit to renounce
The clod that gave me birth....more

False hope prolongs my ever certain grief,
Trait'rous to me and faithful to my love;
A thousand times it promis'd me relief,
Yet never any true effect I prove....more

Hope

Sigh not for there is hope
Doubt not because it is there...more

Hope is the sweet, sweet scent
of flowers in the morning
Hope is the cool gentle breeze
on a warm summer's day...more

1 I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

2 He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light....more

Don't give up hope
Don't give up hope
There is still a whole slew of scope in hope...more

All hope lies in tomorrow
Betrayed by yesterday
For every new horizon
There is a price to pay...more

Off the coast of California
where else
hornyhead turbot
and there's a name for a start...more

Keep hope in your heart,...more

My banks they are furnish'd with bees,
Whose murmur invites one to sleep;
My grottos are shaded with trees,
And my hills are white-over with sheep....more

Hopes – that soar –
like kites in wind -
above the truth –
with wishes – twisting...more

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Had I presumed to hope—
The loss had been to Me...more

AS I LOOK INTO THE FUTURE,
I HOPE FOR PEACE.
PEACE OF MIND
PEACE OF MAN...more

The tears fall, but no one's there to heed them,
The heart it mourns, but no one sees the hurt.
An emptiness has seeped into the brainstem,
One's feeling dazed, and no longer alert....more

I'm writing you this poem,
For you being you,
I'm writing you this poem,
Because I wanted to....more

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