The Lee Memorial Ode (James Barron Hope Poems)
"Great Mother of great Commonwealths" Men call our Mother State: And she so well has earned this name That she may challenge Fate To ...
"Great Mother of great Commonwealths" Men call our Mother State: And she so well has earned this name That she may challenge Fate To ...
IT little profits that, an idle man,On this worn arch, in sight of wasted halls,I mope, a solitary pelican,And glower ...
What, wide awake, sweet stranger, wide awake?And laughing coyly at an English sun,And blessing him with smiles for having thaw'dThine ...
Far away in the twilight timeOf every people, in every clime,Dragons and griffins and monsters dire,Born of water, and air, ...
WISE men use days as husbandmen use bees,And steal rich drops from every pregnant hour;Others, like wasps on blossomed apple-trees,Find ...
STURDY little form, of trueSaxon pattern, through and through;Face as purely Saxon, too,With a smile demure and sly,Dimpled cheek and ...
Yet, yet a moment, one dim ray of light Indulge, dread Chaos, and eternal Night!Of darkness visible so much be ...
The fane I build on this foundation stone Which seems to me the most immortal part Of carnal nature, man's ...
We are very slightly changed From the semi-apes who ranged India's Prehistoric clay; He that drew the longest bow Ran ...
To be an ape in little of the mountain-making mother Like swarthy Cheops, but my own hands For only slaves, ...
Today the Masons are auctioning their discarded pomp: a trunk of turbans, gemmed and ostrich-plumed, and operetta costumes labeled inside ...
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