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 ...
IO crownless soul of Ishmael!Uplifting and unfolding the white tent of dreams against the sunless base of eternity!Looking up through ...
IOh, I am wild—wild!Angels of the weary-hearted, come to thy child.Spread your white wings over me!Tenderly, tenderly,Lovingly, lovingly,Plead for me, ...
IO angels! will ye never sweep the drifts from my door?Will ye never wipe the gathering rust from the hinges?How ...
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 ...
La patience est am?re; mais le fruit en est doux!IAway down into the shadowy depths of the Real I once ...
IO foolish tears, go back!Learn to cover your jealous pride far down in the nerveless heart that ye are voices ...
My heritage! It is to live withinThe marts of Pleasure and of Gain, yet beNo willing worshiper at either shrine;To ...
Visions of Beauty, of Light, and of Love,Born in the soul of a Dream,Lost, like the phantom-bird under the dove,When ...
Sounding through the silent dimnessWhere I faint and weary lay,Spake a poet: 'I will lead theeTo the land of song ...
I see her yet, that dark-eyed one,Whose bounding heart God folded upIn His, as shuts when day is done,Upon the ...
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