Carney, The Brave Standard Bearer (Olivia Ward Bush-Banks Poems)
'Twas a time of fiercest conflict,Enmity and awful woe,'Twixt the North, the friend of Freedom,And the South, its bitter foe.Day ...
'Twas a time of fiercest conflict,Enmity and awful woe,'Twixt the North, the friend of Freedom,And the South, its bitter foe.Day ...
Life without love! -- Ah, what a wail goes up From this poor world of manifold distress,-- What thousands drink the dregs ...
WHEN on thy pillow lying,Half listen, I implore,And at my lute's soft sighing,Sleep on! what wouldst thou more?For at my ...
I. Speak, Muse, whom wilt thou sing? What mighty Man, what King, Upon the Stage what Hero wilt thou bring, ...
Mourn, Mourn, ye Muses, all your loss deplore, The Young, the Noble Strephon is no more. Yes, yes, he fled ...
On what sweet shore the blue AEgean laves, Where loveliness is wedded to decay, -- Beauty to desolation, -- 'mid ...
ON READING BURNS'S LETTERS TO THAT LADY. VALLESIA, whose illustrious blood,Deriv'd from chiefs of mighty name,Who long their country's barrier ...
WE walk in mysteries howsoe'er we tread, And none less awful that we see them not, Or that our solemn ...
Giving thee once a visit of respect, Because I some affaires could not ...
Let wrapt musicians strike the lyre, While plaudits shake the vaulted fane; Let warriors rush through flood ...
I called on dreams and visions, to discloseThat which is veil'd from waking thought; conjuredEternity, as men constrain a ghostTo ...
Answer me, burning stars of night,Where is the spirit gone, That past the reach of human sight,As a swift breeze ...
WHEN on thy pillow lying, Half listen, I implore, And at my lute's soft sighing, Sleep on! what wouldst thou ...
He that loves a rosy cheek, Or a coral lip admires, Or from starlike eyes doth seek Fuel to maintain ...
He that loves a rosy cheek, Or a coral lip admires, Or from star-like eyes doth seek Fuel to maintain ...
HE that loves a rosy cheek, Or a coral lip admires, Or from star-like eyes doth seek Fuel to maintain ...
We read of kings and gods that kindly took A pitcher fill'd with water from the brook ; But I ...
Who hath his fancy pleased With fruits of happy sight, Let here his eyes be raised On Nature's sweetest light; ...
ENLIGHTEN'D Patron of the sacred Lyre? Whose ever-varying, ever-witching song Revibrates on the heart With magic thrilling touch, Till ev'ry ...
So swift the hours are moving Unto the time unproved: Farewell my love unloving, Farewell my love beloved! What! are ...
ALL day they loitered by the resting ships, Telling their beauties over, taking stock; At night the verdict left my ...
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