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 Flowers (23 Poems)
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 ...
The Silver Wedding (Albert Pike Poems)
A MasqueJAMES ALEXANDER WILLIAMSON: ANN WHITFIELD GREGORY: Married April 7, 1853. Annus Eighteen Hundred and Fifty-three. Annus Eighteen Hundred and ...
Latona (Albert Pike Poems)
There was a sudden stir, Ages ago, on the Ӕgean Sea. With a loud cry, as of great agony, The ...
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 ...
The First Wild-Flower Of Spring (Albert Pike Poems)
Young nursling of the Spring and southern mind!Thou comest like tenderness fostered by neglect, Or like new hope within a ...
The Dying Wife (Albert Pike Poems)
Dear husband, raise me in thine arms,-the hour is drawing nearWhen I must part with thee, and these our little ...
Les Marchandes (Albert Pike Poems)
For A FairPRINTEMPS.SWEET SPRING stands blushing 'mid the flowers, Heralded by benignant showers,And soft airs through the young leaves sighing ...
Hymns To The Gods – No. 7 (Albert Pike Poems)
TO ARTEMIS. I.Most graceful Goddess! whether now thy feet Pursue the dun deer to their deep retreat In the heart ...
Hymns To The Gods – No. 11 (Albert Pike Poems)
TO FLORA. I.Hear, lovely Chloris, while we sing to thee!Thou restest now beneath some shady tree,Near a swift brook, upon ...
Lightning (Albert Pike Poems)
The breath of the ocean my cradle is, Which the sun draws up from the blue abyss, And the upper ...
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 ...
Cleopatre (Albert Pike Poems)
Go! woo the sweet South-wind, vain man!The south-wind capricious and gay, To be steadfast and constant and true,-if you can,-To ...
The Old Canoe (Albert Pike Poems)
Where the rocks are gray and the shore is steep, And the waters below look dark and deep, Where the ...
Monotone (Albert Pike Poems)
Come, gentle Dian, show thy crescent inThe sea of fading light that floods the west:Sit, like a white swan on ...
Fanny (Albert Pike Poems)
Through the broad, rolling prairie I'll merrily ride, Though father may fume, and though mother may chide, To the green, ...
Love (Albert Pike Poems)
I am the soul of the Universe,In Nature's pulse I beat; To Doom and Death I am a curse, I ...
Ellen (Albert Pike Poems)
We parted in the Spring, When the flowers were all in bloom, When the air was loaded with perfume, And ...
The Magnolia (Albert Pike Poems)
SongWhat, what is the true Southern Symbol,The Symbol of Honor and Right, The Emblem that suits a brave peopleIn arms ...
The Waif Returned (Albert Pike Poems)
I send home your glove, my darling!Darling! loving and true! Yester-eve left where you sat by me;And my heart goes ...