A Vision of Poesy – Part 01 (Henry Timrod Poems)
IIn a far country, and a distant age,Ere sprites and fays had bade farewell to earth,A boy was born of ...
Henry Timrod Poems on Life (15 Poems)
Two Portraits (Henry Timrod Poems)
You say, as one who shapes a life,That you will never be a wife,And, laughing lightly, ask my aidTo paint ...
Katie (Henry Timrod Poems)
It may be through some foreign grace,And unfamiliar charm of face;It may be that across the foamWhich bore her from ...
A Prize Poem (Henry Timrod Poems)
A fairy ringDrawn in the crimson of a battle-plain —From whose weird circle every loathsome thing And sight and sound of ...
Ethnogenesis (Henry Timrod Poems)
IHath not the morning dawned with added light?And shall not evening call another starOut of the infinite regions of the ...
Our Willie (Henry Timrod Poems)
'Twas merry Christmas when he came,Our little boy beneath the sod;And brighter burned the Christmas flame,And merrier sped the Christmas ...
The Arctic Voyager (Henry Timrod Poems)
Shall I desist, twice baffled? Once by land,And once by sea, I fought and strove with storms,All shades of danger, ...
A Mother Gazes Upon Her Daughter (Henry Timrod Poems)
Is she not lovely! Oh! when, long ago,My own dead mother gazed upon my face,As I stood blushing near in bridal ...
A Cry to Arms (Henry Timrod Poems)
Ho! woodsmen of the mountain side!Ho! dwellers in the vales!Ho! ye who by the chafing tideHave roughened in the gales!Leave ...
Ripley (Henry Timrod Poems)
Rich in red honors, that upon him lieAs lightly as the Summer dewsFall where he won his fame beneath the ...
The Past (Henry Timrod Poems)
To-day's most trivial act may hold the seedOf future fruitfulness, or future dearth;Oh, cherish always every word and deed!The simplest ...
Too Long, O Spirit Of Storm (Henry Timrod Poems)
Too long, O Spirit of Storm,Thy lightning sleeps in its sheath!I am sick to the soul of yon pallid sky,And ...
Quatorzain (Henry Timrod Poems)
MOST men know love but as a part of life;They hide it in some corner of the breast,Even from themselves; ...
Sonnet II “Most Men Know Love But as a Part of Life” (Henry Timrod Poems)
Most men know love but as a part of life;They hide it in some corner of the breast,Even from themselves; ...
Sonnet III “Life Ever Seems as from Its Present Site” (Henry Timrod Poems)
Life ever seems as from its present siteIt aimed to lure us. Mountains of the pastIt melts, with all their crags ...