Vision Of Columbus – Book 1 (Joel Barlow Poems)
Long had the Sage, the first who dared to braveThe unknown dangers of the western wave,Who taught mankind where future ...
Long had the Sage, the first who dared to braveThe unknown dangers of the western wave,Who taught mankind where future ...
______ SacerdosFronde super mitram, & felici comptus oliva.Virg.To the Lord Privy SealContending kings, and fields of death, too longHave been ...
Now, while Orion, flaming south, doth setA shining foot on hills of wind and wet-Far haughty hills beyond the fountains ...
Now that the Summer of Love has become the moss of tunnelsAnd the shadowy mouths of tunnels & all the ...
What visionary tints the year puts on,When failing leaves falter through motionless airOr numbly cling and shiver to be gone!How ...
WRITTEN FOR THIS COLLECTION.FREIGHTED with passengers of every sort,A motley throng, thou leav'st the busy port.Thy long and ample deck, ...
Lying on Downs above the wrinkling bayI with the kestrels shared the cleanly day,The candid day; wind-shaven, brindled turf;Tall cliffs; ...
Lo! the Boar's tail is salted, and the Kangaroo's exalted,And his right eye is extinguished by a man-o'-warsman's cap;He is ...
Since I am coming to that holy room, Where, with thy choir of saints for evermore, I shall be made thy music; ...
On the tallest day in time the dead came back.Clouds met us in the pastures past a world.By short wave ...
When clouds shake out their sailsBefore delighted gales,I think the sailor-men at sea,Hearing the engine throbbing freeCurse their today's fate ...
A man went down to PanamaWhere many a man had diedTo slit the sliding mountainsAnd lift the eternal tide:A man ...
YE that pine for the vanished years, as pinedOdysseus for one glimpse of Hellas more;That toward them lean, as toward ...
Bring the wine-cup, companions! and let it go round! At its bottom good humor and mirth will be found; Bring ...
Perched on a dead volcanic pile,Now charted as a submerged peak,Near to a moon-washed coral isle,A hundred leagues from Mozambique,Three ...
Time-morningA half-point Nor'ard from the West,A bluish-tinted spot of light,Now deep below, ...
Close to the dunnest hour of night,Sniffing the odour of the brew,Their bat-wings oiled for water flight,The Devil and his ...
I GAT your letter, winsome Willie; Wi' gratefu' heart I thank you brawlie; Tho' I maun say't, I wad be ...
(With apologies to the singer of the "Song of the Banjo".) I'm a homely little bit of tin and bone; ...
Mean while the heinous and despiteful act Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how He, in the serpent, had perverted ...
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