The Lost Child. Canto I. (George Jehoshaphat Mountain Poems)
I. OF all that men with zeal and ardour chace, Pour'd here and there on life's promiscuous ground,Some points are ...
I. OF all that men with zeal and ardour chace, Pour'd here and there on life's promiscuous ground,Some points are ...
I. WHAT song is this which on the water rings, Rousing the lonely post? — its flag ascends:Forth from the ...
WHAT doest thou here, fair rose, on rocky shore Opening thy pure and scented breast to blushIn these rude wilds, ...
LAKE of the dead, I find not why This name is thine, from tale or song:Living are none who meet ...
DUMB thunder shakes the wilds — a rising smoke,A hastening stream the curious search provoke:Lo! Kakab?ka's yawning chasm is seenScoop'd ...
SAY did the scent of flesh thy feet allure, Gaunt wolf? — go back, no prey for thee is here:Track ...
Riviere du Lac de la Pluie.WELL hast thou earn'd the title, goodly stream, Thou borrowest from thy parent Lake of ...
MEAGRE observance that we make, and lame, With tasks inverted, of Jehovah's day!We at whose hands our fellow-men should claim ...
BRIGHT are the heavens, the narrow bay serene; No sound is heard within the shelter'd place,Save some sweet whisper of ...
The Tabernacle of Witness.THE Sabbath sinks beneath the shades of night; Yet, ere it pass, within our canvass screenOnce more ...
I SUNG the rain, and said it would be fair: Lo! while the sun, though still with visage veil'd,Descends apace, ...
TWICE, Bay of Thunder, thee I visit now; Noiseless the heavens, the while, and fair are found.Thine aspect is not ...
WHILE prosperous here on inland waters wide, Far, far, but yet with homeward face I float,Some friends whose hearts no ...
SWATHED in that frame-work quaint, contented rest Ev'n on the rail, my child, as thou art hung:Soon to thy mother's ...
GLEAMING through clouds, the low and western sun Of river-side lights up the rocky face;See there, as by magician's lantern, ...
FIRE-FLY, thou art a pretty, pleasing thing: In evening's dusk, we catch, and thickening night,Now here, now there, by closed ...
Among the plagues on earth which God has sent Of lighter torment, is the plague of flies:Not as of ...
AH! river named of France, let reason judge, My silver-mounted implement to thee,If I am greatly blameable to grudge, Seized, ...
TH' instinctive charge of young through every race Of living things, how beautiful to see,How wonderful to watch! — how ...
AND have you penetrated up to this, Ye enterprising souls, for lucre's sake!These wilds not wild enough your feet to ...
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