Proem to American Song (Paul Engle Poems)
BLOW, LONG TRADE WINDS of American speech,Over this land where we can rise, unfurlOur new and untried sails, and drive ...
BLOW, LONG TRADE WINDS of American speech,Over this land where we can rise, unfurlOur new and untried sails, and drive ...
A:Not far from hence. From yonder pointed hill,Crowned with a ring of oaks, you may beholdA dark and barren field, ...
FIRST CHORUS. Ere the birth of Death and of Time, Ere the birth of Hell and its torments, Ere the orbs of ...
Ye hermits blest, ye holy maids, The nearest Heaven on earth, Who talk with God in shadowy glades, Free from rude care and ...
SAY, which ImmortalMerits the highest reward?With none contend I,But I will give itTo the aye-changing,Ever-movingWondrous daughter of Jove.His best-beloved offspring.Sweet ...
We sighed of old till underneath His feetOur pulses beat,Again to sigh in restlessness untilHe saith, "Be still."And with us ...
I.SHE came to England from the island clime Which lies beyond the far Atlantic wave; She died in early youth--before ...
LOUHI STEALS SUN, MOON, AND FIRE.Wainamoinen, ancient minstrel,Touched again his magic harp-strings,Sang in miracles of concord,Filled the north with joy ...
Rapt with the rage of mine own ravish'd thought,Through contemplation of those goodly sights,And glorious images in heaven wrought,Whose wondrous ...
O YE ancient and undisturbed Armenian plains of kind mornings,And ye, golden fields, rich orchards, and pastures smiling with life,Ye ...
O Thou, who's infinite in space,Alive in ever-moving matter,Eternal in the flow of time,God faceless, with a trinity of faces!Soul ...
THEY drew him from the darkened room,Where, swooning in a peace profound,Beneath a heavy fragrance drownedHer grey form glimmered in ...
I.THOU! whose impassion'd face The Painter loves to trace, Theme of the Sculptor's art and Poet's story-- How many a ...
I am a bubbleUpon thy ever-moving, resting sea:Oh, rest me now from tossing, trespass, trouble!Take me down into thee.Give me ...
SAY, which Immortal Merits the highest reward? With none contend I, But I will give it To the aye-changing, Ever-moving ...
For moveless limbs no pity I crave, That never were swift! Still all I prize, Laughter and thought and friends, ...
In darkness the loud sea makes moan; And earth is shaken, and all evils creep About her ways. Oh, now ...
In darkness the loud sea makes moan; And earth is shaken, and all evils creep About her ways. Oh, now ...
Rapt with the rage of mine own ravish'd thought, Through contemplation of those goodly sights, And glorious images in heaven ...
Rapt with the rage of mine own ravish'd thought, Through contemplation of those goodly sights, And glorious images in heaven ...
Before those cruel twins whom at one birth Incestuous Change bore to her father Time, Error and Truth, had hunted ...
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