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 Night (27 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
After Dinner (Albert Pike Poems)
To BEVERLEY TUCKER, ESQUIRE, GREETING: Dear BEV. this greeting goes to you across the Atlantic brine, From the little room ...
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. 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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. 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 ...
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. 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 ...
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 ...
Every Year (Albert Pike Poems)
Life is a count of losses,Every year; For the weak are heavier crosses, Every year; Lost Springs with sobs replying ...
Ode (Albert Pike Poems)
(SUNG AT THE CELEBRATION OF THE I. O. O. F.)The night cometh swiftly, the thick clouds are drifting Around 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 ...
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;- ...
A Fragment (Albert Pike Poems)
Like the young moon, When, on the sunlit limits of the night, Her white sheen trembles amid crimson air, And ...