Arnold De Winkelried (Grace Greenwood Poems)
DAY immortal in Helvetia, - day to every Switzer dear, -Day that saw Duke Leopold down before Sempach appear,Just as ...
Grace Greenwood Poems (68 Poems)
Pygmalion (Grace Greenwood Poems)
THE sculptor paused before his finished work, -A wondrous statue of divinest mould.Like Cytherea's were the rounded limbs,The hands, in ...
Ariadne (Grace Greenwood Poems)
DAUGHTER Of Crete, how one brief hour,E'en in thy young love's early morn,Sends storm and darkness o'er thy bower, -O ...
Dreams (Grace Greenwood Poems)
THERE was a season when I lovedThe calm and holy night, -When, like yon silvery evening star,Just trembling on our ...
Voices From The Old World: The Famine Of 1847 (Grace Greenwood Poems)
A voice from out the Highlands,Old Scotia's mountain homes!From wild burn-side, and darksome glen,And towering steep, it comes!Is it the ...
The Midnight Vigil (Grace Greenwood Poems)
BY THE SICK-BED OF A MOTHER.THEY say a tempest is abroad to-night;They tell me of its fearful sights and sounds, ...
The May Morning (Grace Greenwood Poems)
THE morning brightness showereth down from heaven;The morning freshness goeth up from earth;The morning gladness shineth everywhere!Soon as the sun, ...
The Gold-Seeker (Grace Greenwood Poems)
'T was upon a Southern desert, and beneath a burning sky,That a pilgrim to the gold-clime sunk, o'erwearied, down to ...
Proem (Grace Greenwood Poems)
SOME poet dreams come to the soulIn mystic beauty clad,Unearthly in their loveliness,So exquisitely sad.Shadowy and dim and cloud-like thingsFloating ...
Spirit Longings (Grace Greenwood Poems)
I LOOK upon 1ife's glorious things,The deathless themes of song,The grand, the proud, the beautiful,The wild, the free, the strong,And ...
The Poet Of To-Day (Grace Greenwood Poems)
WHAT siren joy from thy high trust hath won thee,0 Poet of to-day? - thou still unheard,Though struggling nations cast ...
To- In Absence (Grace Greenwood Poems)
WHEN first we met, beloved, rememberest thouHow all my nature was athirst and faint?My soul's high powers lay wasting still ...
A Fragment (Grace Greenwood Poems)
THOU darest not love me! - thou canst only seeThe great gulf set between us. Hadst thou love,'T would bear ...
Darkened Hours (Grace Greenwood Poems)
WITH folded arms and drooping headI stand, my heart's blest goal unwon,My soul's high purpose unattained;But life, but life goes ...
Wanted – A Theme (Grace Greenwood Poems)
THE spring is here again, mother! she bursts upon our sight,Like a young girl in her bridal dress, all bloom, ...
Putnam (Grace Greenwood Poems)
LET the haughty smile, the low defame,The heartless worldling mock;I thank my God my fathers cameOf the good old Pilgrim ...
The Dream (Grace Greenwood Poems)
LAST night, my love, I dreamed of thee,Yet 't was no dream Elysian:Draw closer to my breast, dear Blanche,The while ...
The Leap From The Long Bridge (Grace Greenwood Poems)
AN INCIDENT AT WASHINGTON.A woman once made her escape from the slave-prison, which stands midway between the Capitol and the ...
The Horseback Ride (Grace Greenwood Poems)
WHEN troubled in spirit, when weary of life,When I faint 'neath its burdens, and shrink from its strife,When its fruits, ...
L’Envoi (Grace Greenwood Poems)
I KNOW these lays will come to theeLike flowers along thy pathway strown,And wear, to thy young, generous eyes,A grace ...
To A Bereaved Friend (Grace Greenwood Poems)
THY Mary hath gone from thee; - thou hast foldedFor the last time her dear form to thy breast,And on ...
Hervey To Nina – Miss Bremer (Grace Greenwood Poems)
DIVIDED in our lives, and yet twin-hearted!Our sad first parents shared a happier fate;When, from Love's Eden, dearest, we departed,'T ...
I Never Will Grow Old (Grace Greenwood Poems)
O, NO, I never will grow old;Though years on years roll by,And silver o'er my dark brown hair,And dim my ...
The Army Of Reform (Grace Greenwood Poems)
YES, ye are few, - and they were few,Who daring storm and sea,Once raised upon old Plymouth rock"The anthem of ...
Emilie Plater (Grace Greenwood Poems)
0 RAINBOW of the battle-storm!Methinks thou 'rt gleaming on my sight;I see thy fair and fragile formAmid the thick cloud ...
Lumination For Victories In Mexico (Grace Greenwood Poems)
LIGHT Up thy homes, Columbia,For those chivalric menWho bear to scenes of warlike strifeThy conquering arms again,Where glorious victories, flash ...
The Story Of A Life (Grace Greenwood Poems)
THE world smiled on me at my birth, -Beneath a rose-hued sky,Rocked on the summer waves of love,My childhood glided ...
Constance (Grace Greenwood Poems)
THE tropic stars are looking downUpon the midnight deep;The wind blows fresh, as on our courseRight gallantly we sweep;For thee ...
The Wife’s Appeal (Grace Greenwood Poems)
I'M thinking, Charles, 't is just a year,Or will be, very soon,Since first you told me of your love,One glorious ...
Siri, The Swimmer – Miss Bremer (Grace Greenwood Poems)
WHEN evening with its breezy airSucceeds the sultry day,Let others wear, in crowds and glare,The tranquil hours away;But be it ...