Christmas Day (Henry Kirke White Poems)
Yet once more, and once more, awake, my Harp,From silence and neglect—one lofty strain;Lofty, yet wilder than the winds of ...
Yet once more, and once more, awake, my Harp,From silence and neglect—one lofty strain;Lofty, yet wilder than the winds of ...
When I was young, my heart elate With ardent notions warm, I thirsted to inaugurate A spirit of reform; The universe was all awry, Philosophy ...
Giant aggregate of nations, Glorious Whole of glorious Parts,Unto endless generations Live United, hands and hearts!Be it storm or summer-weather, Peaceful calm, or ...
All riches, honor, fame's divine estate,Are due the gentle poet and his song.The earth is first for him; to him ...
SUFFER the little ones to come to Me,"Forbid them not," the Saviour said: and we,Remembering His words, sure comfort takeThat ...
Uninterruptedly falls the snow,Like meagre, long wool-strands, scant and slow,O'er the meagre, long plain disconsolate.Cold with lovelessness, warm with hate.Infinite, ...
Columbia! Before thy shrine we bow, List to our humble pleading now! For deliverance mortals weep, commingle mute. Our souls ...
To earn it by disdaining it Is Fame's consummate Fee -- He loves what spurns him -- Look behind -- ...
Safe Despair it is that raves -- Agony is frugal. Puts itself severe away For its own perusal. Garrisoned no ...
I MET a Seer, Passing the hues and objects of the world, The fields of art and learning, pleasure, sense, ...
1 AFTER all, not to create only, or found only, But to bring, perhaps from afar, what is already founded, ...
THE KINGDOM OF MY HEART 1 The halcyon settled on the Aire of our days Kingfisher-blue it broke my heart ...
Between me and the sunset, like a dome Against the glory of a world on fire, Now burned a sudden ...
NOTE.-The following imaginary dialogue between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, which is not based upon any specific incident in American ...
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