From “The River-Fight” (Henry Howard Brownell Poems)
WOULD you hear of the River-Fight?It was two of a soft spring night;- God's stars looked down on all,And all was ...
WOULD you hear of the River-Fight?It was two of a soft spring night;- God's stars looked down on all,And all was ...
OUR many years are made of clay and cloud, And quick desire is but as morning dew;And love and life, that ...
ON HIS RETURN FROM SOUTH AMERICAAFTER FIFTEEN YEARS DEVOTED TO CATALOGUING THESTARS OF THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHEREONCE more Orion and the ...
Universes are the pagesOf that book whose words are ages;Of that book which destinyOpens in eternity.There each syllable expressesSilence; there ...
This is the cave of which I spoke,These are the blackened stones, and theseOur footprints, seven lives ago.Darkness was in ...
In sixteen hundred and forty-one,The regular yearly galleon,Laden with odorous gums and spice,India cottons and India rice,And the richest silks ...
My miserable countrymen, whose wont is once a-year To lounge in watering-places, disagreeable and dear; Who on pigmy Cambrian mountains, ...
Nay, Hylas, I have come To where life's landscape takes a western slope, And breezes from the occidental ...
In a year the nightingales were said to be so loud they drowned out slumber, and peafowl strolled screaming beside ...
(_Peradeniya, Ceylon_)IThe sun moves here as a master-mage of nature all day long, With fingers of heat and light that ...
I'd like to be a cowboy an' ride a fiery hoss Way out into the big an' boundless west;I'd kill ...
Oh, it is not in the papers and we cannot always knowWhere to find the Silent Service whose address is ...
Becalmed upon the equatorial seas, A ship of gold lay on a sea of fire; Each sail and ...
No one's timetable governed our steps up with the first light long before the sun rose over the slate blue ...
I'd like to be a cowboy an' ride a fiery hoss Way out into the big an' boundless west; I'd ...
I suppose you could call me heartless as a dull anvil clanking in a sodden barn, the damp wood too ...
Between me and the sunset, like a dome Against the glory of a world on fire, Now burned a sudden ...
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