Gertrude of Wyoming (Thomas Campbell Poem)
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
To tell the Saviour all my wants, How pleasing is the task! Nor less to praise Him when He grants ...
Thus heav'nward all things tend. For all were once Perfect, and all must be at length restor'd. So God has ...
How bless'd Thy creature is, O God, When with a single eye, He views the lustre of Thy Word, The ...
Hark! 'tis the twanging horn! O'er yonder bridge, That with its wearisome but needful length Bestrides the wintry flood, in ...
England, with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English ...
The sole true Something--This ! In Limbo Den It frightens Ghosts as Ghosts here frighten men-- For skimming in the ...
The ladye she stood at her lattice high, Wi' her doggie at her feet; Thorough the lattice she can spy ...
The day was wet, the rain fell souse Like jars of strawberry jam, a sound was heard in the ...
The sort of girl I like to see Smiles down from her great height at me. She stands in strong, ...
Gaily into Ruislip Gardens Runs the red electric train, With a thousand Ta's and Pardon's Daintily alights Elaine; Hurries down ...
Whenas-(I love that "whenas" word- It shows I am a poet, too,) Q. Horace Flaccus gaily stirred The welkin with ...
In our dainty little kitchen, Where my aproned wife is queen Over all the tin-pan people, In a realm exceeding ...
Oh, weep not, love! each tear that springs In those dear eyes of thine, To me a keener suffering brings, ...
Love, indeed thy strength is mighty Thus, alone, such strife to bear -- Three 'gainst one, and never ceasing -- ...
O weep not, love! each tear that springs In those dear eyes of thine, To me a keener suffering brings ...
Believe not those who say The upward path is smooth, Lest thou shouldst stumble in the way And faint before ...
Here's a girl from a dangerous town She crops her dark hair short so that less of her has to ...
Silent is the house: all are laid asleep: One alone looks out o'er the snow-wreaths deep, Watching every cloud, dreading ...
Beautiful cloud! with folds so soft and fair, Swimming in the pure quiet air! Thy fleeces bathed in sunlight, while ...
Oh! could I hope the wise and pure in heart Might hear my song without a frown, nor deem My ...
1.1 Lo now! four other acts upon the stage, 1.2 Childhood, and Youth, the Manly, and Old-age. 1.3 The first: ...
"Oh yes, I went over to Edmonstoun the other day and saw Johnny, mooning around as usual! He will never ...
Why, Pigot, complain of this damsel's disdain, Why thus in despair do you fret? For months you may try, yet, ...
Who ran away from his Nurse and was eaten by a Lion There was a Boy whose name was Jim; ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
I My hair is gray, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have ...
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