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 Heaven (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 ...
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 ...
Ode To The Mocking-Bird (Albert Pike Poems)
THOU glorious mocker of the world! I hear ...
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; ...
Taos (Albert Pike Poems)
The light of morning now begins to thrillUpon the purple mountains, and the grayMist-robed old pines. Brightly upon the stillDeep ...
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 ...
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 ...
Invocation (Albert Pike Poems)
What cheer, Imperial Mountain? Titan, hail!Thy distant crest gleams in the morning-light, Like a small shallop's broad and snowy sail,Over ...
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 ...
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. 12 (Albert Pike Poems)
TO HUPNOS. I.Kind Comforter of all the weary Gods, With drooping eyelids, head that ever nods! Thou silent soother, that ...
Carisima (Albert Pike Poems)
'Do YOU NOT KNOW I LOVE YOU? "-So you cried, And blessed my lips with kisses multiplied, Sweeter than those ...
Stanzas To Ann (Albert Pike Poems)
The spirit in my soul hath woken,And bids me speak to thee again; And silence, many a day unbroken,Must cease, ...
To The Moon (Albert Pike Poems)
Oh, quickly rise, Thou lovely and most welcome Moon! Look into my sad eyes, Ere sober Night too quickly hies;- ...
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 ...