Sketch Of An Occurrence On Board A Brig (John Gardiner Calkins Brainard Poems)
I.The sun's beam and the moon's beam check the sea,The light wave smiles in both, and sportinglyCatching the silver on ...
I.The sun's beam and the moon's beam check the sea,The light wave smiles in both, and sportinglyCatching the silver on ...
WHERE streams of light, in golden showers,First fell on long lost Eden's bowers,And music, from the shouting skies,Wandered to Eve's ...
Four lamps were burning o'er two mighty graves -Godfrey's and Baldwin's - Salem's Christian kings;And holy light glanced from Helena's ...
"Arma virumque cano."THE sun looked bright upon the morning tide:Light played the breeze along the whispering shore,And the blue billow ...
There once dwelt in Olympus some notable oddities,For their wild singularities call'd Gods and Goddesses.—But one in particular beat'em all ...
See you upon the lonely moor,A crazy building rise?No hand dares venture to open the door -No footstep treads its ...
"How cold, how beautiful, how bright,The cloudless heaven above us shines;But 't is a howling winter's night-'T would freeze the ...
On the lake of young life is a fairy boat,Like the sweet new moon in a summer sky;Through a calm ...
FAR away from the hill side, the lake, and the hamlet,The rock, and the brook, and yon meadow so gay;From ...
THE moon hangs lightly on yon western hill;And now it gives a parting look, like oneWho sadly leaves the guilty. ...
The dead leaves strew the forest walk,And whither'd are the pale flowers;The frost hangs blackening on the stalk,The dew-drops fall ...
"Ibis et redibis nunquam peribis in bello." - Oracle.I SEEK not the grove where the wood-robins whistle,Where the light sparrows ...
Now drop the holt, and securely nailThe horse-shoe over the door;'T is a wise precaution, and if it should failIt ...
WHY should thy heart grow faint, they cheek be pale?Why in thine eye should hang the frequent tear,As if the ...
I am a jolly tree toad, upon a chestnut tree;I chirp, because I know that the night was made for ...
On the deep is the mariner's danger,On the deep is the mariner's death;Who, to fear of the tempest a stranger,Sees ...
THERE's beauty in the deep;The wave is bluer than the sky;And though the lights shine bright on high,More softly do ...
Who shall weep when the righteous die?Who shall mourn when the good depart?When the soul of the godly away shall ...
To Thee, O God, the Shepherd KingsTheir earliest homage paidAnd wafted upon angel wingsTheir worship was conveyed.And they who "watched ...
The wanton boy that sports in May,Among the wild flowers, blooming, gay,With laughing eyes and glowing cheeks,The brightest, freshest, fairest ...
Green as Machpelah's honored field,Where Jacob and where Leah lie,Where Sharon's shrubs their roses yield,And Carmel's branches wave on high;So ...
I CAN but smile when others weep,I can but weep when others smile;O! let me in this bosom keepThe secret ...
"Magna comportere parvis"ALL sights are fair to the recovered blind -All sounds are music to the deaf restored -The lame, ...
The thoughts are strange that crowd into my brain,While I look upward to thee. It wold seemAs if God pour'd ...
To MY FRIEND G-.O! HOW calm and how beautiful-look at the night!The planets are wheeling in pathways of light;And the ...
'T IS morning on the sunny sod,Where lingering footsteps late have trod;'T is morning on the melting snow,That shrouds the ...
Who does not love a flower?Its hues are taken from the light,Which summer's sun flings pure and bright,In scattered and ...
Weep, if you have a tear to spare,For her who once like you was fair;Who led like you the dance ...
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