Chicomico – Part II (Lucretia Maria Davidson Poems)
(Written in her fourteenth year.)WHAT sight of horror, fear and woe,Now greets chief Hillis-ha-ad-joe?What thought of blood now lights his ...
(Written in her fourteenth year.)WHAT sight of horror, fear and woe,Now greets chief Hillis-ha-ad-joe?What thought of blood now lights his ...
On the Spirit-Island sitting under midnight's misty moon,Lo I see the spirits flitting o'er the waters one by one!Slumber wraps the ...
Down the broad _Ha-Ha Wak-pa_ the band took their way to the Games at _Keoza_While the swift-footed hunters by land ran the ...
I saw him in vision,--the last of that race Who were destined to vanish before the Pale-face, As the dews of the ...
WHILE swift on his way young Rathmond sped,Death's horrors awaited those he fled.Already were the prisoners bound,One word, and every ...
When the reaper's task was ended, and the summer wearing late,Parson Avery sailed from Newbury, with his wife and children ...
Captive! Is there a hell to him like this?A taunt more galling than the Huron's hiss?He--proud and scornful, he--who laughed ...
The sun went down the west As a warrior to his grave, And touched with crimson hue The "Laughing Water's" wave; And where the ...
Two hundred years!—two hundred years!How much of human power and pride,What glorious hopes, what gloomy fears,Have sunk beneath their noiseless ...
The Swan of Avon died-the SwanOf Sacramento'll soon be gone;And when his death-song he shall coo,Stand back, or it will ...
Two shapes passed over the sobbing sea To land at Dunolly Bay; One passed at sunrise, one at noon Of ...
Wildly and mournfully the Indian drum On the deep hush of moonlight forests broke;"Sing us a death-song, for thine hour ...
WILD rider of grey clouds, beneath whose breath The stars dissolve in mist, or rain, or sleet;Who chariotest the ...
I would wake the shell And lull my senses to forgetfulness With its sweet melody.- Unpublished Poem. Oh pardon for ...
I grew. Foul weather, dreams, forebodings Were bearing me - a Ganymede - Away from earth; distress was growing Like ...
No more shall I seeIn its upward motionThe smoke of the Northland. Man is a slave:The fates decree.On the waste ...
On the shores of Gitche Gumee, Of the shining Big-Sea-Water, Stood Nokomis, the old woman, Pointing with her finger westward, ...
When Scotland's great Regent, our warrior most dear, The debt of his nature did pay, T' was Edward, the cruel, ...
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
Shall the Harp then be silent, when he who first gave To our country a name, is withdrawn from all ...
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