On Connecticut River (John Gardiner Calkins Brainard Poems)
From that lone lake the sweetest of the chainThat links the mountain to the mighty main,Fresh from the rock and ...
From that lone lake the sweetest of the chainThat links the mountain to the mighty main,Fresh from the rock and ...
I.The sun's beam and the moon's beam check the sea,The light wave smiles in both, and sportinglyCatching the silver on ...
The carrier is a poor old man-See his gray locks, his wrinkles scan,Look at him and admire!His coat is thin, ...
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 ...
I love the "Universal Yankee Nation,"Where'er they are - whate'er they are about,Whatever be their wealth, or rank, or station,Their ...
"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 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 ...
WHO bleeds in the desert, faint, naked, and torn,Left lonely to wait for the coming of morn?The last sigh from ...
Carmina tum melius, cum venerit IPSE canemus.VIRG. Bucolica, Ecl. ix.CASTLE GARDEN was splendid one night- though the wetPut off for ...
"How cold, how beautiful, how bright,The cloudless heaven above us shines;But 't is a howling winter's night-'T would freeze the ...
Hic viridis tenera pr(John Gardiner Calkins Brainard)
On the lake of young life is a fairy boat,Like the sweet new moon in a summer sky;Through a calm ...
THERE is a rude old monument,Half masonry, half ruin, bentWith sagging weight, as if it meantTo warn one of mischance;And ...
The Bar Versus The Docket.This action was brought to get cash from the pocketOf a debtor absconding and absent, called ...
AH! who can imagine what plague and what bothersHe feels, who sits down to write verses for others!His pen must ...
Jack Frost.I HEARD - 't was on an Autumn night -A little song from yonder tree;'T was a Caty-did, in ...
FAR away from the hill side, the lake, and the hamlet,The rock, and the brook, and yon meadow so gay;From ...
Napoleon died upon Helena's rock; -Round and beneath were piled and stored the waves,Might and fathomless. Atlantic's shockRecoiled, and through ...
I wish - 't is no concern of mine,But yet I wish that you would tryThe painter's brush, and trace ...
THE moon hangs lightly on yon western hill;And now it gives a parting look, like oneWho sadly leaves the guilty. ...
WITH gallant sail and streamer gay,Sweeping along the splendid bay,That, thronged by thousands, seems to greetThe bearer of a precious ...
THE Sabbath morn came sweetly on,The sunbeams mildly shone uponEach rock, and tree, and flower;And floating on the southern gale,The ...
WE seek not mossy bank, or whispering stream,Or pensive shade, in twilight softness decked,Or dewy canopy of flowers, or beamOf ...
" Hic cinis - ubique fama."Behold the mossed corner-stone dropped from the wall,And gaze on its date - but remember ...
THOUGH friends are false, and leaders fail,And rulers quake with fear;Though tamed the shepherd in the vale,Though slain the mountaineer;Though ...
A Rose shall bloom in the lonely place,A wild shall echo with sounds of joy,For heaven's own gladness its bounds ...
"The spider's most attenuated thread,Is cord- is cable, to man's tender tieOn earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze."ANOTHER! 'tis ...
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