Burns (Fitz-Greene Halleck Poems)
WILD ROSE of Alloway! my thanks:Thou 'mindst me of that autumn noonWhen first we met upon "the banksAnd braes o'bonny ...
WILD ROSE of Alloway! my thanks:Thou 'mindst me of that autumn noonWhen first we met upon "the banksAnd braes o'bonny ...
HOME of the Percy's high-born race,Home of their beautiful and brave,Alike their birth and burial place,Their cradle, and their grave!Still ...
A Chief Of The Indian Tribes, The Tuscaroras.On Looking At His Portrait By WeirCOOPER, whose name is with his country's ...
At midnight, in his guarded tent,The Turk was dreaming of the hourWhen Greece, her knee in suppliance bent,Should tremble at ...
I.THOU com'st, in beauty, on my gaze at last,"On Susquehannah's side, fair Wyoming!"Image of many a dream, in hours long ...
STRANGERS! your eyes are on that valley fixedIntently, as we gaze on vacancy,When the mind's wings overspreadThe spirit-world of dreams.True, ...
A lady asks the Minstrel's rhyme. A lady asks? There was a timeWhen, musical as play-bell's chimeTo wearied boy,That sound ...
IA SWORD, whose blade has ne'er been wetWith blood, except of freedom's foes;That hope which, though its sun be set,Still ...
THERE is an evening twilight of the heart,When its wild passion-waves are lulled to rest,And the eye see's life's fairy ...
SWEET boy! before thy lips can learnIn speech thy wishes to make known,Are "thoughts that breathe and words that burn"Heard ...
LADY, although we have not met,And may not meet, beneath the sky;And whether thine are eyes of jet,Gray, or dark ...
……….. The imperial votress passed onIn maiden meditation, fancy free.Midsummer Night's Dream,Shall I never see a bachelor of three-score again?BENEDICT, ...
HER Leghorn hat was of the bright gold tintThe setting sunbeams give to autumn clouds;The ribband that encircled it as ...
He hath been mourned as brave men mourn the brave,And wept as nations weep their cherished dead,With bitter, but proud ...
EYES with the same blue witchery as thoseOf Psyche, which caught Love in his own wiles;Lips of the breath and ...
WE sat us down and wept,Where Babel's waters slept,And we thought of home and Zion as a long-gone, happy dream;We ...
I."BESIDE the nuptial curtain bright"The Bard of Eden sings,"Young Love his constant lamp will light,"And wave his purple wings."But rain-drops ...
Green be the turf above thee,Friend of my better days!None knew thee but to love thee,Nor named thee but to ...
THE world is bright before thee,Its summer flowers are thine,Its calm blue sky is o'er thee,Thy bosom Pleasure's shrine;And thine ...
-still her gray rocks tower above the seaThat crouches at their feet, a conquered wave;'Tis a rough land of earth, ...
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