The Death Of The Boar (John Douglas Sutherland Campbell Poems)
OSSIAN.This vale of Peace, this glen close by,Where deer and elk would often cry,Of old saw the fleet-footed Fianti boundIn ...
OSSIAN.This vale of Peace, this glen close by,Where deer and elk would often cry,Of old saw the fleet-footed Fianti boundIn ...
Does death cleanse the stains of the spirit When sundered at last from the clay,Or keep we thereafter till judgment, Desires that ...
Lo, a castle, tall, lake-mirrored, Ringed around by mountain forms,Roofless, ruined, still defying Summer's rains and winter's storms.Every shattered lifeless window, Every stone ...
An ancient cannon, finely cast. Of bronze, all smooth and green with age, A by-gone actor on the stage,Yet fit to take, ...
Yon vale among the mountains, So sheltered from the sea,That lake which lies so lonely, Shall tell their tale to thee.Here stood ...
At a feast in the east of our central plains,Girt with the sheaths of ...
Away to the west! Westward ho! Westward ho!Where over the prairies the summer winds blow!Why known to so few were ...
For a while the salt brine leaves me O'er my terraced rocks to fall,And my broad swift-gliding waters Olden memories recall.Ere the ...
From our Dominion never Take Thy protecting hand,United, Lord, for ever Keep Thou our fathers' land!From where Atlantic terrors Our hardy seamen train,To ...
Grey-cowled monk, whose faith so earnest Guides these Indians' childlike hearts,As their hands to toil thou turnest, Teaching them the Builder's arts,Speak ...
Morning, lighting all the prairies, Once of old came, bright as now,To the twin cliffs, sloping wooded From the vast plain's even ...
A GREAT ROCK ON THE AMERICAN NORTH-WEST FRONTIER.Among white peaks a rock, hewn altar-wise, Marks the long frontier of our mighty ...
A ceaseless, awful, falling sea, whose sound Shakes earth and air, and whose resistless stroke Shoots high the volleying foam like cannon ...
The Noon-Sun prayed a prairie rose To blanch for him her blossom's hue,But to the Plain all love she owes; Beneath that ...
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