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 ...
There stands a City,-- neither large nor small,Its air and situation sweet and pretty;It matters very little -- if at ...
'It is the voice of years that are gone!they roll before me with all their deeds.'~OSSIANNewstead! fast-falling, once-resplendent dome! Religion's shrine! ...
A sound as if from bells of silver,Or elfin cymbals smitten clear,Through the frost-pictured panes I hear.A brightness which outshines ...
Ho! workers of the old time styledThe Gentle Craft of Leather!Young brothers of the ancient guild,Stand forth once more together!Call ...
Can we add to his glory whose praise is ours?Can we rate him anew in the lists of fame?Shall our ...
I saw a war, yet none the trumpet blew,Nor in their hands the steel-wrought weapons bare;And in that conflict armed ...
But, when they were alone,--and now no more By that subduing presence overawed,-- With free tongue giving loose to wrath ...
All night funereal darkness pall'd the earth; The worn--out soldiers slumbered heavily: The anxious chiefs themselves, in grave--like sleep, Till ...
Resplendent as on that great morn he rose, When, from the inmost depth of heaven's immense, The bright eternal solitude ...
Courage was cast about her like a dressOf solemn comeliness,A gathered mind and an untroubled faceDid give her dangers grace. ...
She knelt in prayer. A stream of sunset fellThro' the stain'd window of her lonely cell,And with its rich, deep, ...
Standing alone, a study in itself,How Shakespeare's volume glorifies my shelf!For thence his spirit forth on mine has shined,Like a ...
. Now hearken, ye who take delight In boasting of your worth! To many ...
What cheer, Imperial Mountain? Titan, hail!Thy distant crest gleams in the morning-light, Like a small shallop's broad and snowy sail,Over ...
Look on the white Alps round! If yet they gird a land Where freedom's voice and ...
Now hearken, ye who take delight In boasting of your worth! To many a man, to many a knight, Beloved ...
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