The Bay-Fight (Henry Howard Brownell Poems)
Three days through sapphire seas we sailed, The steady Trade blew strong and free,The Northern Light his banners paled,The Ocean Stream ...
Three days through sapphire seas we sailed, The steady Trade blew strong and free,The Northern Light his banners paled,The Ocean Stream ...
I know of no profession 'Mong profane or divine, Excelling in its mission The power embraced in mine. It reaches earth and heaven Through heart ...
I Left the city to the north and walkedAgainst a southwest wind; the hurtling rainShowered the empty streets in noisy ...
Sweet, harmless lives! (on whose holy leisure Waits innocence and pleasure),Whose leaders to those pastures, and clear springs, Were patriarchs, saints, and ...
LEMMINKAINEN'S LAMENT.This the time to sing of Ahti,Son of Lempo, Kaukomieli,Also known as Lemminkainen.Ahti was the king of islands,Grew amid ...
CHAUNTED BY JACK SAVAGE, AT THE LIFE-WAKE OF THE FINE ARKANSAS GENTLEMAN, WHO DIED BEFORE HIS TIME, 1859.(Occasioned by a ...
A sight that gives me much distress Is George without his trousers,Garbed, scantily, in bathing dress Proscribed by saintly Wowsers,And ...
I lay in my tent at mid-day, Too full of pain to die,When I heard the voice of Burnside, And ...
BEOWULF spake, bairn of Ecgtheow: —"Lo, we seafarers say our will,far-come men, that we fain would seekHygelac now. We here ...
I HAVE heard that swiftly the son of Weohstanat wish and word of his wounded king, —war-sick warrior, — woven ...
The swarthy bee is a buccaneer, A burly velveted rover, Who loves the booming wind in his ear As he ...
Within a vale in distant Saxony, In time uncertain, though 'twas long ago.There dwelt a woman, most unhappily, From borrowed ...
PRELUDE OF THE FOUNDER OF THE DANISH HOUSELO, praise of the prowess of people-kingsof spear-armed Danes, in days long sped,we ...
We'd harbored them on hovels, and in dens, Altho' in price they counted less than cattle,Had they not still the ...
Deep in the brooding shadow of thy wing,Hidden and hushed and harbored here,My soul for very stillness cannot sing;A word ...
(To Dr. L. A. Martinet, editor of the New Orleans Crusader.)O thou who never harbored fear,Who ever scorned her visage ...
Let no man pray that he know not sorrow, Let no soul ask to be free from pain, For the ...
Sweet, harmless lives! (on whose holy leisure Waits innocence and pleasure), Whose leaders to those pastures, and clear springs, Were ...
Come let us watch the sun go down and walk in twilight through the orchard's green. Does it not seem ...
The ravings which my enemy uttered I heard within my heart; the secret thoughts he harbored against me I also ...
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