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 Youth (31 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
To Ann (Albert Pike Poems)
These lines are to thee; and they come from a heart, Which hath never to thee spoken aught but the ...
Hymns To The Gods – No. 8 (Albert Pike Poems)
TO ARES. I.Great War-God! mighty Ares! Hear our hymn, Sung to thee in the wood-recesses dim Of dusky Caria, near ...
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 ...
Sunset In Arkansas (Albert Pike Poems)
Sunset again! Behind the massy greenOf the continuous oaks the sun hath fallen, And his last rays have struggled through, ...
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. 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 ...
Carisima (Albert Pike Poems)
'Do YOU NOT KNOW I LOVE YOU? "-So you cried, And blessed my lips with kisses multiplied, Sweeter than those ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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, ...
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 ...