Invocation (Ambrose Bierce Poems)
Goddess of Liberty! O thouWhose tearless eyes behold the chain,And look unmoved upon the slain,Eternal peace upon thy brow,-Before thy ...
Ambrose Bierce Poems (29 Poems)
Matter For Gratitude (Ambrose Bierce Poems)
Be pleased, O Lord, to take a people's thanksThat Thine avenging sword has spared our ranks-That Thou hast parted from ...
Elixer Vit (Ambrose Bierce Poems)
Of life's elixir I had writ, when sleep(Pray Heaven it spared him who the writing read!)Settled upon my senses with ...
Carmelite (Ambrose Bierce Poems)
As Death was a-riding out one day,Across Mount Carmel he took his way,Where he met a mendicant monk,Some three or ...
In Defense (Ambrose Bierce Poems)
You may say if you please, Johnny Bull, that our girlsAre crazy to marry your dukes and your earls;But I've ...
A Wreath Of Immortelles (Ambrose Bierce Poems)
Judge Sawyer, whom in vain the people triedTo push from power, here is laid aside.Death only from the bench could ...
Christian (Ambrose Bierce Poems)
I dreamed I stood upon a hill, and, lo!The godly multitudes walked to and froBeneath, in Sabbath garments fitly clad,With ...
Another Way (Ambrose Bierce Poems)
I lay in silence, dead. A woman cameAnd laid a rose upon my breast, and said,'May God be merciful.' She ...
Egotist (Ambrose Bierce Poems)
Megaceph, chosen to serve the StateIn the halls of legislative debate,One day with his credentials cameTo the capitol's door and ...
Adair Welcker, Poet (Ambrose Bierce Poems)
The Swan of Avon died-the SwanOf Sacramento'll soon be gone;And when his death-song he shall coo,Stand back, or it will ...
General B.F. Butler (Ambrose Bierce Poems)
Thy flesh to earth, thy soul to God,We gave, O gallant brother;And o'er thy grave the awkward squadFired into one ...
Creation (Ambrose Bierce Poems)
GOD dreamed-the suns sprang flaming into place,And sailing worlds with many a venturous race.He woke-His smile alone illumined space.(Ambrose Bierce)
At The Close Of The Canvass (Ambrose Bierce Poems)
'Twas a Venerable Person, whom I met one Sunday morning,All appareled as a prophet of a melancholy sect;And in a ...
Convalescent (Ambrose Bierce Poems)
What! "Out of danger?" Can the slighted DameOr canting Pharisee no more defame?Will Treachery caress my hand no more,Nor Hatred ...
Geotheos (Ambrose Bierce Poems)
As sweet as the look of a loverSaluting the eyes of a maidThat blossom to blue as the maidIs ablush ...
Polyphemus (Ambrose Bierce Poems)
Twas a sick young man with a face ungayAnd an eye that was all alone;And he shook his head in ...
Politics (Ambrose Bierce Poems)
That land full surely hastens to its endWhere public sycophants in homage bendThe populace to flatter, and repeatThe doubled echoes ...
The Statesmen (Ambrose Bierce Poem)
How blest the land that counts among Her sons so many good and wise, To execute great feats of tongue ...
To the Bartholdi Statue (Ambrose Bierce Poem)
O Liberty, God-gifted-- Young and immortal maid-- In your high hand uplifted, The torch declares your trade. Its crimson menace, ...
With a Book (Ambrose Bierce Poem)
Words shouting, singing, smiling, frowning-- Sense lacking. Ah, nothing, more obscure than Browning, Save blacking. (Ambrose Bierce)
Piety (Ambrose Bierce Poem)
The pig is taught by sermons and epistles To think the God of Swine has snout and bristles. (Ambrose Bierce)
Rimer (Ambrose Bierce Poem)
The rimer quenches his unheeded fires, The sound surceases and the sense expires. Then the domestic dog, to east and ...
Safety-Clutch (Ambrose Bierce Poem)
Once I seen a human ruin In a elevator-well. And his members was bestrewin' All the place where he had ...
Weather (Ambrose Bierce Poem)
Once I dipt into the future far as human eye could see, And I saw the Chief Forecaster, dead as ...
An Inscription (Ambrose Bierce Poem)
A conqueror as provident as brave, He robbed the cradle to supply the grave. His reign laid quantities of human ...
Alone (Ambrose Bierce Poem)
In contact, lo! the flint and steel, By sharp and flame, the thought reveal That he the metal, she the ...
Decalogue (Ambrose Bierce Poem)
Thou shalt no God but me adore: 'Twere too expensive to have more. No images nor idols make For Roger ...
Elegy (Ambrose Bierce Poem)
The cur foretells the knell of parting day; The loafing herd winds slowly o'er the lea; The wise man homewards ...
Freedom (Ambrose Bierce Poem)
Freedom, as every schoolboy knows, Once shrieked as Kosciusko fell; On every wind, indeed, that blows I hear her yell. ...