Cousin Aggie: A Memory (Janet Hamilton Poems)
The seal of sixty summers now,Cousin Aggie, marks thy brow,If beneath Canadian skiesStill thou livest. Mayhap thou liesWithin the forest's ...
The seal of sixty summers now,Cousin Aggie, marks thy brow,If beneath Canadian skiesStill thou livest. Mayhap thou liesWithin the forest's ...
Lone dweller of the stony isle!Dost thou at fortune's caprice smile,Soars thy great mind above thy state,Serene amid the shocks ...
Damp and drear the lonely halls,Faint the misty sunlight fallsThrough the casement, soil'd and dim,In the chambers, grey and grim.On ...
"There's a divinity that shapes our ends,Rough hew them as we will."—-ShakspereBehold with awe, and high adoring wonder,The living car ...
Dark lowered the thunder-cloud of deathO'er Alma's height, while far beneath, In deep and dread array,Fair France, thy eagle-bannered host,Her lion ...
'Twas ancient Macedon that gave to timeThe hero, world-renown'd—his sire sublimeOlympian Jove: so said the royal dameWhose breast maternal nursed ...
What woe is thine, pale mother?—sayWhat grief devours thy heart? For ayeThy looks averted shun the day,And midnight sees thee ...
"Had I a thousand mouths, a thousand tongues,A thousand throats, inspired with brazen lungs,"I'd rouse with thunder tones the slumbering ...
Deadlier balls than North or SouthThrow from cannon's blazing mouth,Everywhere appal my sight—Three in number—golden, bright."All that glitters is not ...
Calling a world to arms—I hear from farThe pealing clangours of the trump of war;The horizon political flames forthHer angry ...
Now range up the carriages, feed up the fires!To the rail, to the rail, now the pent up desiresOf the ...
"One murder makes a villain, millions a hero; and number sanctifies the crime."—YoungWith mournful eyes, and folded hands,And listening ear, ...
Ye minist'ring spirits of grace, That wait on the good and the true,To comfort, support, and solace— Earth fails us—we call upon ...
The toils, the flames, the thunders of the siege Are quench'd and hush'd. Night shrouds in funeral pallThe fallen fortress, and ...
A loftier muse, in higher strains, may sing A grander requiem o'er the stateman's bier:Yet genius, rank, and grandeur may not ...
Lady, to thee, to fortune, and to fame,I, all unknown, would yet aspiring claimA right to love thee, and admire ...
"Peace, peace, O peace!" sweet peace, descend,The cloud of war asunder rend;Thy gentle reign alone restoresRest to Columbia's ravaged shores!Peace, ...
Inscribed, and Sacred to the Memory of the Rev. Dr. John Campbell, of London, who died March 26, 1867.Oh, faithful ...
From Glasgow To Australia With Emigrants, 1854.Go, barque of promise, prove thy name, Not on the deck, where dead and dyingHave ...
In Glasgow, September 1860:Queen of the West! we hail thee from afar!The brilliance of each "bright particular star,"That gilds thy ...
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