Reflections (Albert Pike Poems)
"The stars shine sweetly in the skies,Where, hours ago, they gently stole, Even as a lady's lovely eyesLook in upon ...
"The stars shine sweetly in the skies,Where, hours ago, they gently stole, Even as a lady's lovely eyesLook in upon ...
Pale the moon her light was shedding O'er the landscape far and wide;Calmly bright, all ills undreading, Emma wander'd by ...
Cry on! full well I know the voice,For often it hath called on me, Stirring my passions with the noise,As ...
Observe the insect race, ordain'd to keepThe lazy Sabbath of a half-year's sleep.Entomb'd beneath the filmy web they lie, And ...
IThe incognizable kings of Night, within their unrevealed abyssHave built them a metropolis against the kingdoms of the light.Its mountain-passing ...
See, he sitteth on his mat Sitteth there upright,With the grace with which he sat While he saw the light.Where ...
Many worlds have I made, said the Good God, "But this is best of all," He slipped the round earth ...
WANDER, my troubled soul, sigh 'mid the night thy pain, While from my cloud-hung brow stream showers of briny rain; ...
When Father Time swings round his scythe, Entomb me 'neath the bounteous vine,So that its juices, red and blithe, May ...
SWEET painted flutt'rer! often have I view'd Thy sportive gambols in the blue serene;And frequently indulg'd the pensive mood, ...
Lighted by the lady moon, Breezes blow and aspens quiver, By the stream's enchanted tune Singing to the distant river, ...
WHERE the great Turkish prophet lies,Entomb'd beneath Arabian skies,Where Darnley fell a sacrifice To his fair consort's ire;Where fam'd ...
When Father Time swings round his scythe, Entomb me 'neath the bounteous vine, So that its juices, red and blithe, ...
Muses, which sadly sit about my chair, Drown'd in the tears extorted by my lines, With heavy sighs whilst thus ...
Whilst thus my pen strives to eternize thee, Age rules my lines with wrinkles in my face, Where in the ...
O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and ...
A poet's cat, sedate and grave As poet well could wish to have, Was much addicted to inquire For nooks ...
Thou noblest monument of Albion's isle! Whether by Merlin's aid, from Scythia's shore, To Amber's fatal plain Pendragon bore, Huge ...
See, he sitteth on his mat Sitteth there upright, With the grace with which he sat While he saw the ...
TERRIFIC FIEND! thou Monster fell, Condemn'd in haunts profane to dwell, Why quit thy solitary Home, O'er wide Creation's paths ...
Fly envious Time, till thou run out thy race, Call on the lazy leaden-stepping hours, Whose speed is but the ...
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