Poems about memphis (21 Poems)
Death Of Norman Dewar (Nora Pembroke Poems)
Far away from stricken Memphis Came the tidings sad and sureThat among the many fallen, Fell the clansman Norman Dewar There are eyes unused to weeping With the tears of sorrow dim,Hearts with nature’s anguish heaving, Yet ’tis wrong to weep for him None … Continue reading
To The Lily of The Nile (Lizzie E Palmer Poems)
Canst thou tell us lovely stranger, Of that far-famed sunny clime,Where the pyramids so stately Stand like “Sentinels of time?” To the charmed ear thou’rt revealing, Page on page of legends old -Of that land “with wonders hoary” Battle fields of warriors bold. From … Continue reading
The Ghost – Book I (Charles Churchill Poems)
With eager search to dart the soul,Curiously vain, from pole to pole,And from the planets’ wandering spheresTo extort the number of our years,And whether all those years shall flowSerenely smooth, and free from woe,Or rude misfortune shall deformOur life with … Continue reading
The Bush (Bernard O Dowd Poems)
I wonder if the spell, the mystery,That like a haze about your silence clings,Moulding your void until we seem to seeTangible Presences of Deathless Things,Patterned but little to our spirits’ woof,Yet from our love or hate not all aloof,Can. be … Continue reading
The pilgrimage to Mecca (George Canning Poems)
What holy rites Mohammed’s laws ordain,What various duties bind his faithful train,—What pious zeal his scatter’d tribes unitesIn fix’d observance of these holy rites,—At Mecca’s shrine what votive crowds surroundWith annual pomp the consecrated ground,—The muse shall tell:—revolving years succeed,And … Continue reading
Fort Dearborn (Albery Allson Whitman Poems)
Fort Dearborn is a strong and goodly place,And o’er the frontier looks with valiant faceTo greet the hostile tread of savage harm,With tongue of thunder and an iron arm.Far up he stands, on a commanding ground,With grizly turrets rising high … Continue reading
The History Of Joseph: A Poem In Ten Books. Book X. (Elizabeth Singer Rowe Poems)
Their father’s blessing on their knees they take,And now to Memphis quick advances make,Where safe arriv’d, but fearful of their doom,To Joseph’s steward hastily they come,Disclose in humble terms their late mistake,And render doubl’d all the money back. Your father’s … Continue reading
Hymn To Jazz And The Like (Eli Siegel Poems)
What is sound, as standing for the world and the mind of man at any time, and in any situation? Sound is an unknown, immeasurable reservoir which has been gone into and used to have chants, … Continue reading
Last Stanzas of ‘The Bush’ (Bernard O Dowd Poems)
Where is Australia, singer, do you know? These sordid farms and joyless factories, Mephitic mines and lanes of pallid woe? Those ugly towns and cities such as these With incense sick to all unworthy power, And … Continue reading
House Of Bondage (Francis Thompson Poems)
I When I perceive Love’s heavenly reaping stillRegard perforce the clouds’ vicissitude,That the fixed spirit loves not when it will,But craves its seasons of the flawful blood;When I perceive that the high poet dothOft voiceless stray beneath the uninfluent stars,That … Continue reading