The Plains Of Abraham (Charles Sangster Poems)
I stood upon the Plain, That had trembled when the slain,Hurled their proud defiant curses at the battle-hearted foe, ...
I stood upon the Plain, That had trembled when the slain,Hurled their proud defiant curses at the battle-hearted foe, ...
She was a phantom, &c.In lone Glenartney's thickets lies couched the lordly stag,The dreaming terrier's tail forgets its customary wag;And ...
TO AN OLD TREE. WHERE thy broad branches brave the bitter North,Like rugged, indigent, unheeded, worth,Lo! Vegetation's guardian hands embossEach ...
SO heavenly beautiful it lay, It was less like a human corse Than that fair shape in which perforce A ...
WHEN I'm dead, and silent lying,Should you in an hour of aweGaze upon me, softly sighing,Back the solemn curtain draw;But ...
'TWAS eve; the broadly shining sun Its long, celestial course, had run; The twilight heaven, so soft and blue, Met ...
AN OLD MAN'S OPTIMISM I'Tis dark around on either hand-Old I am, marching in a mountain land.Will the dawn never ...
The sea was calm, cloudless the sky They kept the watch with eagle eye;Hard by the shore were resting in ...
As the young millet, by the genial rain Enriched, shoots up luxuriant and tall, So, when we southward marched ...
O LIBERTY, yet build thee an august And best abode in this most virgin clime;The Old World ...
Long since, I lived in lordly porches frontingWith thronged, enormous pillars to the tide,Where day as in basaltic caverns diedWith ...
784Bereaved of all, I went abroad -No less bereaved was IUpon a New Peninsula -The Grave preceded me -Obtained my ...
Dear child! how radiant on thy mother's knee, With merry-making eyes and jocund smiles, Thou gazest at the painted tiles, ...
Bereaved of all, I went abroad -- No less bereaved was I Upon a New Peninsula -- The Grave preceded ...
"O day! he cannot die When thou so fair art shining! O Sun, in such a glorious sky, So tranquilly ...
Karshish, the picker-up of learning's crumbs, The not-incurious in God's handiwork (This man's-flesh he hath admirably made, Blown like a ...
Deliverance from oppression and falsehood. O Thou whose justice reigns on high, And makes th' oppressor cease, Behold how envious ...
Comrades, leave me here a little, while as yet 't is early morn: Leave me here, and when you want ...
I Where the wings of a sunny Dome expand I saw a Banner in gladsome air- Starry, like Berenice's Hair- ...
Now Morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl, When Adam waked, so ...
O, for that warning voice, which he, who saw The Apocalypse, heard cry in Heaven aloud, Then when the Dragon, ...
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