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 Man (23 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 ...
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 ...
Latona (Albert Pike Poems)
There was a sudden stir, Ages ago, on the Ӕgean Sea. With a loud cry, as of great agony, The ...
Fantasma (Albert Pike Poems)
I sit, unconscious of all things around,And look into my soul. Within it farThere is an image, dim and indistinct.Of ...
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 ...
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 ...
Hymns To The Gods – No. 4 (Albert Pike Poems)
TO DIONUSOS. I.Where art thou, Dionusos? On the hills Of some fair land afar, where sweet wine fills The clustered ...
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 ...
Cruiskeen Lan (Albert Pike Poems)
Let the Statesman swarm like bees, At Receptions and Levees, And Diplomats the drawing-room adorn; Let Patriots grow gray, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Mignonne (Albert Pike Poems)
In the sad evening of my life,A single star upon me smiles, And makes the world's turmoil and strife Seem ...
France (Albert Pike Poems)
Wake! children of France! shall your tyrant forever Enslave and enchain you, and trample you down? Do you fear the ...
Apostrophe (Albert Pike Poems)
Oh, Liberty! thou child of many hopes, Nursed in the cradle of the human heart; While Europe in her glimmering ...
Re-Union (Albert Pike Poems)
Let us drink, together, fellows, as we did in days of yore, And still enjoy the golden hours that Fortune ...
Caroline (Albert Pike Poems)
They said that we should meet no more,They said she never should be mine They swore to see me dead, ...
Hymn (Albert Pike Poems)
Awake! awake! Hear Freedom callingUpon her sons to fly to arms; While Treason's trumpet-tongue appalling Is madly sounding its alarms. ...
Oh, Jamie Brewed A Bowl O’ Punch (Albert Pike Poems)
A Song.Oh, Jamie brewed a bowl o' punch,And a' his friends to help cam' in; A jollier set of chiels ...