Farewell To Cuba (Maria Gowen Brooks Poems)
ADIEU, fair isle! I love thy bowers, I love thy dark-eyed daughters there;The cool pomegranate's scarlet flowers Look brighter in their jetty ...
ADIEU, fair isle! I love thy bowers, I love thy dark-eyed daughters there;The cool pomegranate's scarlet flowers Look brighter in their jetty ...
OLD BILLY-battered, brown and black With many days of camping,Companion of the bulging sack, And friend in all our tramping:How often on ...
AND the night was dark and calm,There was not a breath of air,The leaves of the grove were still,As the ...
Piensan los EnamoradosQue tienen los otros, los oios quebranta dos.VVhy slightest thou what I approve?Thou art no Peer to try ...
That man no guard or weapons needs,Whose heart the blood of Jesus knows;But safe may pass, if duty leads,Through burning ...
I'M GLAD that the Bushmen can't see me now A-doing it tall in the town;I've an inch-brimmed hat on my sun-burnt ...
'Again the sun is hot and high in heaven;The rustic sweats beneath the sultry ray;The idler seeks the shady walk; ...
Year after year, as Summer suns come round, Upon the Calais packet am I found: Thence to Geneva hurried by ...
The fair Pomona flourish'd in his reign;Of all the Virgins of the sylvan train,None taught the trees a nobler race ...
Humility, said Lena, as she drewA well-worn glove upon her sun-burnt hand,"Is the best ornament a Christian knows."I think not ...
Now on the summit rapt I stand,The centre of the circling land.See, around, above, below,What beauties blaze, what colors glow!Blending, ...
I.In ev'ry Town, where Thamis rolls his Tyde,A narrow pass there is, with Houses low;Where ever and anon, the Stream ...
COME Contemplation, in whose mienAwful Wisdom sits serene,Pleas'd shall the eye thy form survey;No gaudy plumage decks thy brow,Nor dazzling ...
IT'S a high-falutin' title they have handed us;It's very complimentary and grand;But a year or so ago they called us ...
THROUGH spring-time walks, which flowers perfum'd, I chas'd a wild capricious fair, Where hyacinths and jonquils bloom'd, Chanting gay sonnets ...
My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white. White as ...
1 I SING the Body electric; The armies of those I love engirth me, and I engirth them; They will ...
1 STARTING from fish-shape Paumanok, where I was born, Well-begotten, and rais'd by a perfect mother; After roaming many lands-lover ...
Close on the margin of a brawling brook That bathes the low dell's bosom, stands a Cot; O'ershadow'd by broad ...
Swift, o'er the wild and dreary waste A NUT-BROWN GIRL was seen to haste; Wide waving was her unbound hair, ...
Through thick Arcadian woods a hunter went, Following the beasts upon a fresh spring day; But since his horn-tipped bow ...
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