Jerusalem (John Gardiner Calkins Brainard Poems)
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 ...
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 ...
"By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned."How sad the note of that funereal drum,That's muffled by indifference to the dead!And ...
THERE is a rude old monument,Half masonry, half ruin, bentWith sagging weight, as if it meantTo warn one of mischance;And ...
" Hic cinis - ubique fama."Behold the mossed corner-stone dropped from the wall,And gaze on its date - but remember ...
"The spider's most attenuated thread,Is cord- is cable, to man's tender tieOn earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze."ANOTHER! 'tis ...
Bless thy bright face! though often blessed beforeBy raving maniac and by pensive fool;One would say something more- but who ...
WHY should thy heart grow faint, they cheek be pale?Why in thine eye should hang the frequent tear,As if the ...
"How slow we drive! - but yet the hour will come,When friends shall greet me with affection's kiss;When, seated at ...
Yes, there are thoughts that have no sound-such thoughtsThat no coined phrase of words can utter them!The tongue would syllable ...
HOW many now are dead to meThat live to others yet!How many are alive to meWho crumble in their graves, ...
It rains. What lady loves a rainy day?Not she who puts prunella on her foot,Zephyrs around her neck, and silken ...
The wanton boy that sports in May,Among the wild flowers, blooming, gay,With laughing eyes and glowing cheeks,The brightest, freshest, fairest ...
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, ...
Though now we are sluggish and lazy on shore,Yet soon shall we be where the wild waters roar;Where the wind ...
Toll not the bell and muffle notThe drum, nor fire the funeral shot;Nor half way hoist our banner now -Nor ...
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