Reflections (Albert Pike Poems)
"The stars shine sweetly in the skies,Where, hours ago, they gently stole, Even as a lady's lovely eyesLook in upon ...
"The stars shine sweetly in the skies,Where, hours ago, they gently stole, Even as a lady's lovely eyesLook in upon ...
'Tis years, soubrette, since last we met; And yet—ah, yet, how swift and tenderMy thoughts go back in time's dull ...
I went to-night by the wooden bridge That steps across the stream;And I leant a little over its ledge To ...
The world is mad, my masters, The poet had the facts To prove this sweeping statement, In ...
I walked alone in depths of autumn woods; The ruthless winds had left the maple bare The fern was withered, ...
THIS is the place. Even here the dauntless soul,The unflinching hand, wrought on; till in that nook,As on that very ...
527To put this World down, like a Bundle-And walk steady, away,Requires Energy-possibly Agony-'Tis the Scarlet wayTrodden with straight renunciationBy the ...
'Tis years, soubrette, since last we met; And yet--ah, yet, how swift and tender My thoughts go back in time's ...
I RECOLLECT, that lately much I blamed, The sort of lover, avaricious named; And if in opposites we reason see, ...
To put this World down, like a Bundle -- And walk steady, away, Requires Energy -- possibly Agony -- 'Tis ...
Most she touched me by her muteness -- Most she won me by the way She presented her small figure ...
High from the earth I heard a bird, He trod upon the trees As he esteemed them trifles, And then ...
Elizabeth told Essex That she could not forgive The clemency of Deity However -- might survive -- That secondary succor ...
A Word made Flesh is seldom And tremblingly partook Nor then perhaps reported But have I not mistook Each one ...
I met a King this afternoon! He had not on a Crown indeed, A little Palmleaf Hat was all, And ...
"How shall I be a poet? How shall I write in rhyme? You told me once the very wish Partook ...
'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede - Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to ...
I. You're my friend: I was the man the Duke spoke to; I helped the Duchess to cast off his ...
Frau Doktor, Mama Brundig, take out your contacts, remove your wig. I write for you. I entertain. But frogs come ...
Which was Held in the Queens Hotel, Perth, on the Evening of 5th September 1894 'Twas in the year of ...
Meanwhile the new-baptized, who yet remained At Jordan with the Baptist, and had seen Him whom they heard so late ...
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