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 ...
Thy elder Look, Great Janus, castInto the long Records of Ages past:Review the Years in fairest Action drestWith noted White, ...
______ SacerdosFronde super mitram, & felici comptus oliva.Virg.To the Lord Privy SealContending kings, and fields of death, too longHave been ...
Now, round the yielding canopy of shade,Again the Guide his heavenly power display'd.Sudden, the stars their trembling fires withdrew,Returning splendors ...
When great Augustus govern'd ancient Rome,And sent his conquering bands to foreign wars,Abroad when dreaded, and beloved at home,He saw ...
Rivers I have seen which were beautiful, Slow rivers winding in the flat fens, With bands of reeds like thronged green swords Guarding ...
XXXIThe villain flies, he, full of rage and ire,Pursues, she stood and wondered on them both,But yet to follow them ...
Here's a vestibule. On holidaysOvercome by slavish fear,The whole population, in a state of awe,Rushes to the sacred doors.Having left ...
The rejected word "peace"At the beginning of an outraged era;A church lamp in a grottoAnd the air of mountain landsAn ...
Thy forests, Windsor! and thy green retreats,At once the Monarch's and the Muse's seats,Invite my lays. Be present, sylvan maids!Unlock ...
Stalingrad...After Madrid and London, there are still great cities.The world hasn't ended, for amidst the ruinsother men appear, the faces ...
I built myself a monument, eternal and miraculous,It's higher than the Pyramids, than metal it is harder;Swift winds and thunder ...
The last leaves' embers in total immolation Rise into the sky; this whole forest Seethes with irritation, just as we ...
WHEN I'se been by Tiber an' when I'se been by Seine,Listenin' theer messages, I lang to hear agenSecrets of home-watters, ...
Although thy hand and faith, and good works too, Have sealed thy love which nothing should undo, Yea though thou ...
Far from the Rappahannock, the silent Danube moves along toward the sea. The brown and green Nile rolls slowly Like ...
1 O TAKE my hand, Walt Whitman! Such gliding wonders! such sights and sounds! Such join'd unended links, each hook'd ...
Frost apple on a knotted whirling bough of dark becoming where it cannot be. So much both for the soil ...
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