The Celt’s Paradise. Third Duan (John Banim Poems)
THE SAINT. Ossian, enough of this dotard theme,Lit up at the meteor--blaze of a dream,Wanton and vain as ever was fann'dBy ...
THE SAINT. Ossian, enough of this dotard theme,Lit up at the meteor--blaze of a dream,Wanton and vain as ever was fann'dBy ...
Fair morning sat upon the mountain-top,Night skulking crept into the mountain-chasm.The silent ships slept in the silent bay;One broad blue ...
Sleep is a spirit, who beside us sits, Or through our frames like some dim glamour flits; From out her form a ...
_"Liberty is always won where there exists the unconquerable will to be free."_Born free, thus we resolve to live: By Heaven ...
This world of wonders, where our lot is cast,Hath far more ends than one. A man may standOn the bluff ...
The good intent of God became the Christ.And lived on earth--the Living Love of God,That men might draw to closer ...
'Twas on the morning of that fateful day When Cyrus met on Thymbra's spacious plain The mighty host by wealthy ...
Weary was I of Earth. My body lay, Its fires turned down and slaked to faintest heat.My soul went ...
IQueen Theodolind has builtIn the earth a furnace-bed:There the Traitor Nail that spiltBlood of the anointed Head,Red of heat, resolves ...
OH! treasured thus by passion's slave, Dear relic of the bygone year; Say, what remains of her who gave? The ...
I LOVE thee, mournful, sober-suited Night!When the faint moon, yet lingering in her wane,And veil'd in clouds, with pale uncertain ...
IXAnd does she love me now as yesterday? Is love divine indeed, and scorns to wear The mortal mantle which ...
I That fawn-skin-dappled hair of hers, And the blue eye Dear and dewy, And that infantine fresh air of hers! ...
See you the towers, that, gray and old, Frown through the sunlight's liquid gold, Steep sternly fronting steep? The Hellespont ...
Fast, in its prison-walls of earth, Awaits the mould of baked clay. Up, comrades, up, and aid the birth The ...
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