Proem (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
I LOVE the old melodious laysWhich softly melt the ages through, The songs of Spenser's golden days, Arcadian Sidney's silvery phrase,Sprinkling our ...
I LOVE the old melodious laysWhich softly melt the ages through, The songs of Spenser's golden days, Arcadian Sidney's silvery phrase,Sprinkling our ...
1860-1The Ancient of Days forever is young, Forever the scheme of Nature thrives;I know a wind in purpose strong-- It spins _against_ ...
Long I waited, wonderingHow, so near my heart,Love another life could bring,Made of mine a part,Nor let me, save in ...
Each form of beauty's but the new disguiseOf thoughts more beautiful than forms can be:Sceptics, who search with unanointed eyes,Never ...
O Child of Nations, giant-limbed, Who stand'st among the nations now Unheeded, unadored, unhymned, With unanointed brow, — How long the ignoble sloth, how long The trust in greatness not thine own? Surely the lion's brood is strong To front the world alone! How long the indolence, ere thou dare Achieve thy destiny, seize thy fame, — Ere our proud eyes behold thee bear A nation's franchise, nation's name? The Saxon force, the Celtic fire, These are thy manhood's heritage! Why rest with babes and slaves? Seek higher The place of race and age. I see to every wind unfurled The flag that bears the Maple Wreath; Thy swift keels furrow round the world Its blood-red folds beneath; Thy swift keels cleave the furthest seas; Thy white sails swell with alien gales; To stream on each remotest breeze The black smoke of thy pipes exhales. O Falterer, let thy past convince Thy future, — all the growth, the gain, The fame since Cartier knew thee, since Thy shores beheld Champlain! (Montcalm and Wolfe! Wolfe and Montcalm! Quebec, thy storied citadel Attest in burning song and psalm How here thy heroes fell! O Thou that bor'st the battle's brunt At Queenston and at Lundy's Lane, — On whose scant ranks but iron front The battle broke in vain! — Whose was the danger, whose the day, From whose triumphant throats the cheers, At Chrysler's Farm, at Chateauguay, Storming like clarion-bursts our ears? On soft Pacific slopes, — beside Strange floods that northward rave and fall, — Where chafes Acadia's chainless tide — Thy sons await thy call. They wait; but some in exile, some With strangers housed, in stranger lands, — And some Canadian lips are dumb Beneath Egyptian sands. O mystic Nile! Thy secret yields Before us; thy most ancient dreams Are mixed with far Canadian fields And murmur of Canadian streams. But thou, my country, dream not thou! Wake, and behold how night is done, — How on thy breast, and o'er thy brow, Bursts the uprising sun!(Charles G. D. Roberts)
1 Thy mellow passioning amid the leaves, That tremble dimly in the summer dusk, Falls sad along ...
Before you leave my hands' abusesTo lie where many odd things meet you,Neglected darkling of the Muses,I, the last of ...
GUIDE, PHILOSOPHER, BUT FRIEND _If that these vagrant verses make One heart more glad; if they but ...
232The Sun-just touched the Morning-The Morning-Happy thing-Supposed that He had come to dwell-And Life would all be Spring!She felt herself ...
Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat?Then crouch within the door -Red - is the Fire's common tint ...
The Sun -- just touched the Morning -- The Morning -- Happy thing -- Supposed that He had come to ...
Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat? Then crouch within the door -- Red -- is the Fire's ...
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