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 ...
ILeave me; oh! leave me,Lest I find this low earth sweeter than the skies.Leave me lest I deem Faith's white ...
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 ...
Oh! I am sick of what I am. Of allWhich I in life can ever hope to be.Angels of light ...
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, ...
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 ...
IO angels! will ye never sweep the drifts from my door?Will ye never wipe the gathering rust from the hinges?How ...
Where shall I lead the flocks to-day?Is there no Horeb for me beyond this desert?Is there no rod with which ...
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 ...
Repent, or I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight thee with the sword of my mouth.—Revelation ii. 16.IAshkelon ...
IIn from the night.The storm is lifting his black arms up to the sky.Friend of my heart, who so gently ...
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 ...
Bright as the light that burns at nightIn the starry depths of Aiden,When star and moon in leafy JuneWith love ...
I see her yet, that dark-eyed one,Whose bounding heart God folded upIn His, as shuts when day is done,Upon the ...
Thou Pleiad of the lyric worldWhere Pasta, Garcia shone,Come back with thy sweet voice again,And gem the starry zone.Though faded, ...
Come back to me! my life is young,My soul is scarcely on her way,And all the starry songs she's sung,Are ...
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