Pro Patria: America, 1861 (Adah Isaacs Menken Poems)
God's armies of Heaven, with pinions extended,Spread wide their white arms to the standard of Light;And bending far down to ...
God's armies of Heaven, with pinions extended,Spread wide their white arms to the standard of Light;And bending far down to ...
Alone on the hill of stormsThe voice of the wind shrieks through the mountain.The torrent rushes down the rocks.Red are ...
In the Beginning, God, the great Schoolmaster, wrote upon the white leaves of our souls the text of life, in ...
ILeave me; oh! leave me,Lest I find this low earth sweeter than the skies.Leave me lest I deem Faith's white ...
Oh! I am sick of what I am. Of allWhich I in life can ever hope to be.Angels of light ...
ILost—lost—lost!To me, for ever, the seat near the blood of the feast.To me, for ever, the station near the Throne ...
IO crownless soul of Ishmael!Uplifting and unfolding the white tent of dreams against the sunless base of eternity!Looking up through ...
And they shall be my people, and I will be their God.—Jeremiah xxxii. 38.IHear, O Israel! and plead my cause ...
IYes, yes, dear love! I am dead!Dead to you!Dead to the world!Dead for ever!It was one young night in May.The ...
Where'er there's a life to be kindled by love,Wherever a soul to inspire,Strike this key-note of God that trembles aboveNight's ...
IO foolish tears, go back!Learn to cover your jealous pride far down in the nerveless heart that ye are voices ...
La patience est am?re; mais le fruit en est doux!IAway down into the shadowy depths of the Real I once ...
IO soldiers, soldiers, get ye back, I pray!Hush out of sound your trampings so near his lowly head!Hush back the ...
I."Carry me out of the host, for I am wounded."The battle waged strong.A fainting soul was borne from the host.The ...
Sounding through the silent dimnessWhere I faint and weary lay,Spake a poet: 'I will lead theeTo the land of song ...
Poor, impious Soul! that fixes its high hopesIn the dim distance, on a throne of clouds,And from the morning's mist ...
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