'I wish I had a quiet tomb,
Beside a little rill;
Where birds, and bees, and butterflies,
Would sing upon the hill.'
Beside a little rill;
Where birds, and bees, and butterflies,
Would sing upon the hill.'

As A.M. Barnard: Behind a Mask, or a Woman's Power (1866)The Abbot's Ghost, or Maurice Treherne's Temptation (1867)A Long Fatal Love Chase (1866 – first published 1995)First published anonymously:A Modern Mephistopheles (1877)Louisa May Alcott was born in Ger…
View profile & all 50 Poems / Stories'I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty;I woke, and found that life was duty.
Four little chests all in a row,Dim with dust, and worn by time,
In a quiet, pleasant meadow,Beneath a summer sky,
WELCOME, welcome, little stranger,Fear no harm, and fear no danger;
OPPOSITE my chamber window,On the sunny roof, at play,