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 ...
Albert Pike Poems on Time (21 Poems)
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
When California Was A Foreign Land (Albert Pike Poems)
READ BEFORE THE NATIONAL CONVENTION OF MEXICAN WAR VETERANS, JANUARY 16, 1874. "WHEN CALIFORNIA WAS A FOREIGN LAND!" How many ...
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 ...
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. 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 ...
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, ...
Disunion (Albert Pike Poems)
Ay, shout! 'Tis the day of your pride,Ye despots and tyrants of earth! Tell your serfs the American name to ...
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 ...
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 ...
Brown October (Albert Pike Poems)
October, brown October, with his slowAnd melancholy step, has left the hills And comes upon the plains. The wild winds ...
As The Season Come And Go (Albert Pike Poems)
The fresh young leaves are coming, Dear!In the genial prime of May; And the bees in the blooms are humming, ...
Home (Albert Pike Poems)
Though the heart hath been sunken in folly and guilt- Though its hopes and its joys on the earth have ...