Fragments (Albert Pike Poems)
(OF AN UNFINISHED POEM.) Dear woman! star of sad life's clouded heaven,I dedicate myself to thee again; Fair woman! as ...
Albert Pike Poems on Art (20 Poems)
Fragments From “The Brigand.” A Poem. Canto III (Albert Pike Poems)
The twenty-fifth had come; Peru awoke;One cry for freedom from her green hills broke,From her wide plains and valleys; and ...
Fragments From “The Brigand.” A Poem. Canto I (Albert Pike Poems)
Bring the wine-cup, companions! and let it go round! At its bottom good humor and mirth will be found; Bring ...
Fragments From “The Brigand.” A Poem. Canto II (Albert Pike Poems)
The silver horn of the advancing tide Had ploughed its highest furrow in the sand, And was retiring. Noon, with ...
EIIOΣ (Albert Pike Poems)
CHAUNTED BY JACK SAVAGE, AT THE LIFE-WAKE OF THE FINE ARKANSAS GENTLEMAN, WHO DIED BEFORE HIS TIME, 1859.(Occasioned by a ...
To The Planet Jupiter (Albert Pike Poems)
Thou art a radiant and imperial star,Planet! whose silver crest beams bright, afarUpon the edge of yonder eastern hill,That, nightlike, ...
Shelley (Albert Pike Poems)
Only a few short years ago, there satA youth on one of old Rome's seven hills,Beneath a ruined temple, and ...
Hymns To The Gods – No. 5 (Albert Pike Poems)
TO APHRODITEI.Oh, thou most lovely and most beautiful!- Wherever cooingly thy white doves lull Thy bright eyes to soft slumber; ...
Hymns To The Gods – No. 6 (Albert Pike Poems)
TO APOLLON. Bright-haired Apollon! Thou that ever art A blessing to the world! whose generous heart Aye overflows with love ...
Agapou Pneuma (Albert Pike Poems)
Thou must have altered in the two long yearsWhich thou hast passed since I beheld thee, Ann!For then thou wast ...
Death In The Desert (Albert Pike Poems)
The sun is sinking from the sky,The clouds are clustering round the moon, Like misty bastions, mountain-high; And night approaches, ...
Hymns To The Gods – No. 3 (Albert Pike Poems)
TO DEMETER. I.Goddess of bounty! at whose spring-time call, When on the dewey earth thy first tones fall, And echo ...
Hymns To The Gods – No. 10 (Albert Pike Poems)
TO HERMES. I.Hear, white-winged Messenger! If thy swift feetLoiter within Heaven's starry walls, where meetThe Gods, their nectar daintily to ...
My Sister (Albert Pike Poems)
And thou too, dearest sister! thou art dead!The pitiless archer once again has spedAt our small circle an unerring dart.Thus, ...
To Ambition (Albert Pike Poems)
Cry on! full well I know the voice,For often it hath called on me, Stirring my passions with the noise,As ...
Apostrophe (Albert Pike Poems)
Oh, Liberty! thou child of many hopes, Nursed in the cradle of the human heart; While Europe in her glimmering ...
The Sea-Shore (Albert Pike Poems)
THE SEA, THE SEA!It rings as loud, it rolls as free, As brightly flashes on this shore,As where the deep, ...
A Dirge Over A Companion Killed By Oomanohes And Buried In The Prairie. (Albert Pike Poems)
Thy wife shall wait Many long days for thee; And when the gate Swings on its unused hinges, she, Opening ...
Wilt Thou On Thy Sweet Bosom Wear? (Albert Pike Poems)
Wilt thou on thy sweet bosom wear,The cross I send to thee, Disdaining not the gift that tells How dear ...
The Answer (Albert Pike Poems)
Think not, dear husband, that my heart Hath ever blamed thee for its pains;Dearer and closer still thou art,As life's ...