Death Of Norman Dewar (Nora Pembroke Poems)
Far away from stricken Memphis Came the tidings sad and sureThat among the many fallen, Fell the clansman Norman DewarThere are eyes ...
Far away from stricken Memphis Came the tidings sad and sureThat among the many fallen, Fell the clansman Norman DewarThere are eyes ...
Canst thou tell us lovely stranger, Of that far-famed sunny clime,Where the pyramids so stately Stand like "Sentinels of time?"To the charmed ...
With eager search to dart the soul,Curiously vain, from pole to pole,And from the planets' wandering spheresTo extort the number ...
I wonder if the spell, the mystery,That like a haze about your silence clings,Moulding your void until we seem to ...
What holy rites Mohammed's laws ordain,What various duties bind his faithful train,—What pious zeal his scatter'd tribes unitesIn fix'd observance ...
Fort Dearborn is a strong and goodly place,And o'er the frontier looks with valiant faceTo greet the hostile tread of ...
Their father's blessing on their knees they take,And now to Memphis quick advances make,Where safe arriv'd, but fearful of their ...
What is sound, as standing for the world and the mind of man at any time, and in ...
Where is Australia, singer, do you know? These sordid farms and joyless factories, Mephitic mines and lanes of pallid woe? ...
IWhen I perceive Love's heavenly reaping stillRegard perforce the clouds' vicissitude,That the fixed spirit loves not when it will,But craves ...
At Bedrashein between the pyramidsI saw the wing?d sun fold up his pinionsAnd sink into the nether world's dominionsWhere Set ...
Spring, summer, autumn, winter,Come duly, as of old;Winds blow, suns set, and morning saith,"Ye hills, put on your gold."The song ...
There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away ...
THE key, which opes the chest of hoarded gold. Unlocks the heart that favours would withhold. To this the god ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
1 O TAKE my hand, Walt Whitman! Such gliding wonders! such sights and sounds! Such join'd unended links, each hook'd ...
Earth, Ocean, Air, belovèd brotherhood! If our great Mother has imbued my soul With aught of natural piety to feel ...
Yellow makes a play for green among the rows of some poor farmer's field outside the Memphis city limits' northern ...
My mother was for woman's rights And my father was the rich miller at London Mills. I dreamed of the ...
Within this sober Frame expect Work of no Forrain Architect; That unto Caves the Quarries drew, And Forrests did to ...
I asked the old Negro, "What is that bird that sings so well?" He answered: "That is the Rachel-Jane." "Hasn't ...
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