A Test Of Love (James Ephraim McGirt Poems)
The land of Avia, lovely is the scene,Clothed every evening in a silvery sheen;The rippling brook and birds make music ...
The land of Avia, lovely is the scene,Clothed every evening in a silvery sheen;The rippling brook and birds make music ...
Thou who wert born of Psyche and of LoveAnd fondly nurst on Poesy's warm breast Painting, oh, power adored! My country's sons ...
HER triumphs are over, the crownHas passed from her brow;And she smiles, "To whom now does the townMy poor laurels ...
So soon he fell, the world will never know What possibilities within him lay, What hopes irradiated his young life, With high ambition ...
GOD has his plans, and what if weWith our sight be too blind to seeTheir full fruition; cannot he,Who made ...
How carelessly you wore your beauty!Lightly as if 'twere cloth of air,Too heavy for your soul to wear,As if to ...
I.THE young queen Nature, ever sweet and fair,Once on a time fell upon evil days.From hearing oft herself discussed with ...
EDWARD SHORE.Genius! thou gift of Heav'n! thou light divine!Amid what dangers art thou doom'd to shine!Oft will the body's weakness ...
DOWN sunk the sun, nor shed one golden ray, But rising mists shut in the low'ring day: The tides o'erflown ...
SMALL, fragile, and dark-eyed was Alan's mother, Of Highland blood; her solemn Saxon mate Had ne'er been able quite to ...
THOU, by whose gen'rous mien, whose open brow,Thy unsubdued majestic heart we know;Whose god-like port proclaims thy race divine,Whose smiles ...
O thou keen Pow'r, whose radiant eyeCan thousand shadowy forms descry,That cheat corporeal sight;Thou who canst soar above yon spheres,Past ...
SWEET warbler! whose mellifluent strainThus nightly cheers the lonely plain,Who tun'st thy voice when all are mute,In that wild note ...
Dusk, like a moth of violet wing, descends Upon the beryl bosom of the sea, And in the ...
Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star In his steep course? So long he seems to pause On thy ...
Glad as the weary traveller tempest-tost To reach secure at length his native coast, Who wandering long o'er distant lands ...
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