The Columbiad: Book X (Joel Barlow Poems)
The vision resumed, and extended over the whole earth. Present character of different nations. Future progress of society with respect ...
The vision resumed, and extended over the whole earth. Present character of different nations. Future progress of society with respect ...
From heaven, soul--like, to earth. It is sundown. MarkThe heart's state, empty and collapsed, the world'sVain pleasures leave us in, ...
As in our sky sometimes a vaporous massLow down, shows thunder threatening; while by windsOf happier, if adverse wing fanned, ...
In one of earth'sHead cities, awaiting this, the effect unknown,Of evil, not, truly, all--wise, we towerlike rise;With eminent but indifferent ...
THROUGH the long hall the shuttered windows shedA dubious light on every upturned head;On locks like those of Absalom the ...
"Oh, dear, this utterly sweltering season of the highly rampant sun is drawing nigh, and it will always be good ...
All man's acts,Serious or trivial, all man's thoughts perchancePass not unmarked of angel eye, or God's.We know in daytime there ...
"Delightful are trees and fields with the outgrowth of new tender-leaves and crops, Lodhra trees are with their blossomy flowers, ...
I. SPRING ON THE HILLSAh, shall I follow, on the hills,The Spring, as wild wings follow?Where wild-plum trees make wan ...
IBeyond the Northern Lights, in regions hauntedOf twilight, where the world is glacier planted,And pale as Loki in his cavern ...
The days of these two years like busy antsHave gone, confused and happy and distressed, Rich, yet sad with aching wants, Crowded, ...
1.Traces of the rains that pass Are skimming higher mesa-parts,But hardly giving cactus bloom Where the desert starts.Sands, receptive, ask too much And ...
A time when even the gods are absent,not even shadows of living things exist,not even the smell of death is ...
PART IIt is an hour before the hour of dawn. Set in mine hand my staff and leave me ...
'Tis a poor drizzly morning, dark and sad.The cloud has fallen, and filled with fold on foldThe chimneyed city; and ...
Somno mollior unda I Dawn is dim on the dark soft water, Soft and passionate, dark and sweet. Love's own ...
Light love in a mist, by the midsummer moon misguided, Scarce seen in the twilight garden if gloom insist, Seems ...
PART I It is an hour before the hour of dawn. Set in mine hand my staff and leave me ...
Of course you've heard of the Nancy Lee, and how she sailed away On her famous quest of the Arctic ...
As Ann came in one summer's day, She felt that she must creep, So silent was the clear cool house, ...
Music and silver chimes and sunlit air, Freighted with the scent of honeyed orange-flower; Glad, friendly festal faces everywhere. She, ...
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