Pro Patria: America, 1861 (Adah Isaacs Menken Poems)
God's armies of Heaven, with pinions extended,Spread wide their white arms to the standard of Light;And bending far down to ...
God's armies of Heaven, with pinions extended,Spread wide their white arms to the standard of Light;And bending far down to ...
THOU glorious mocker of the world! I hear ...
Tell me no more, no moreOf my soul's lofty gifts! Are they not vainTo quench its haunting thirst for happiness?Have ...
I CANNOT love thee, tho' thy soul Be one which all good thoughts control; Altho' thy eyes be starry bright, ...
THE MIND IS AN ANCIENT AND FAMOUS CAPITAL The mind is a city like London, Smoky and populous: it is ...
I. Mouths have they, but they speak not: Yet something in the certainty of faith ...
Twenty-eight naked young women bathed by the shoreOr near the bank of a woodland lakeTwenty-eight girls and all of them ...
By Tigris, or the streams of Ind, Ere Colchis rose, or Babylon, Forgotten empires dreamed and sinned, Setting tall towns ...
The cynics say that every roseIs guarded by a thorn that growsTo spoil our posies:But I no pleasure therefore lack;I ...
A precious - mouldering pleasure - 'tis -To meet an Antique Book -In just the Dress his Century wore -A ...
WITH Shakspeare's manhood at a boy's wild heart,-Through Hamlet's doubt to Shakspeare near allied,And kin to Milton through his Satan's ...
One crown that no one seeks And yet the highest head Its isolation coveted Its stigma deified While Pontius Pilate ...
A precious -- mouldering pleasure -- 'tis -- To meet an Antique Book -- In just the Dress his Century ...
"Lord, being dark," I said, "I cannot bear The further touch of earth, the scented air; Lord, being dark, forewilled ...
You saw sagacious Solomon You know what came of him, To him complexities seemed plain. He cursed the hour that ...
I. I said---Then, dearest, since 'tis so, Since now at length my fate I know, Since nothing all my love ...
I There was a roaring in the wind all night; The rain came heavily and fell in floods; But now ...
When Yankies, skill'd in martial rule, First put the British troops to school; Instructed them in warlike trade, And new ...
Twenty-eight naked young women bathed by the shore Or near the bank of a woodland lake Twenty-eight girls and all ...
FROM off a hill whose concave womb reworded A plaintful story from a sistering vale, My spirits to attend this ...
The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he a while Thought him still speaking, ...
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