The Centennial Year (Christopher Pearse Cranch Poems)
A Hundred years - and she had sat, a queenSheltering her children, opening wide her gatesTo all the inflowing tribes ...
A Hundred years - and she had sat, a queenSheltering her children, opening wide her gatesTo all the inflowing tribes ...
OUT of the cloud that dimmed his sunset light,Into the unknown firmament withdrawnBeyond the mists and shadows of the night,We ...
A wondrous light is filling the air,And rimming the clouds of the old despair;And hopeful eyes look up to seeTruth's ...
WHAT lapse or accident of timeCan dull that soul's sonorous chimeWhich owns the priceless heritage -Youth's summer warmth in wintry ...
READING in Omar till the thoughts that burnedUpon his pages seemed to be inurnedWithin me in a silent fire, my ...
ON a time - not of old -When a poet had sent out his soul and no welcome had foundWhere ...
Across the sea the swift sad message dartsAnd beats with sudden pang against our hearts.Under the elm-trees in his homestead ...
AH, who can tell which guide were bestTo truth long sought, but unattained -The early faith, or late unrest?What age ...
WARM, generous and young in heart and brain,A wise, ripe scholar of the antique mould,Had he but chosen he might ...
THE small enlarged, the distant nearer broughtTo sight, made marvels in a denser age.But Science turns with every year a ...
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