Tennants Anster Fair (Joseph Rodman Drake Poems)
I.'TIS the middle watch of a summer's night -The earth is dark, but the heavens are bright;Nought is seen in ...
I.'TIS the middle watch of a summer's night -The earth is dark, but the heavens are bright;Nought is seen in ...
_Prince Henry_. God's blessing on the architects who buildThe bridges o'er swift rivers and abyssesBefore impassable to human feet,No less ...
WE were down in the Indian Ocean, after sperm, and three years out;The last six months in the tropics, and ...
There was an old and quiet man,And by the fire sate he,"And now," he said, "to you I'll tellA dismal ...
Unseal the city fountains, And let the waters flowIn coolness from the mountains Unto the plains below.My brain is parched and erring, The ...
Wherever I travel Greece wounds me.On Pelion among the chestnut trees the Centaur's shirtslipped through the leaves to fold around ...
SOLEMN he paced upon that schooner's deck,And muttered of his hardships: - "I have beenWhere the wild will of Mississippi's ...
A Poem: Or Extracts from the Diary of an Officer in the East.Farewell To England.TEN thousand blessings rest upon the ...
The window born of a desire for skyhas stationed itself in the black wall like an angel:it's friend to man,a ...
THE PARTING HOUR.Minutely trace man's life; year after year,Through all his days let all his deeds appear,And then though some ...
OF our Amusements ask you?--We amuseOurselves and friends with seaside walks and views,Or take a morning ride, a novel, or ...
IShe was spoken off Saint Vincent, outward bound . . .Some lumber-laden barque from Puget Sound,Heaving her sodden deck-load through ...
DARKNESS on the endless sea; A wild, wild wailing cry;And the sun came down-like a ...
Tho' it sounds a trifle mystic, Somewhat vague and cabbalistic,When you come to analyse the ...
Gay is the captivating cognomen of a Young Woman of cambridge, mass.to whom nobody seems to have mentioned ye ...
As I looked over the water — as I looked over the foam,I saw an old-time packet-ship come cheerily plunging ...
I How fresh the Dartle's little waves that day! A steely silver, underlined with blue, And flashing where the round ...
I'm glad I am alive, to see and feel The full deliciousness of this bright day, That's like a heart ...
AMERICA always! Always our own feuillage! Always Florida's green peninsula! Always the priceless delta of Louisiana! Always the cotton-fields of ...
In her room at the prow of the house Where light breaks, and the windows are tossed with linden, My ...
In the painting, I'm seated in a shield, coming home in it up a shadowy river. It is a small ...
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