Ode On The Sailing Of Our Troops For France (John Jay Chapman Poems)
Go fight for Freedom, Warriors of the West!At last the word is spoken: Go!Lay on for Liberty. 'Twas at her ...
John Jay Chapman Poems (34 Poems)
The Poet Orders His Sepulchre (John Jay Chapman Poems)
(After Ronsard)YE caverns, and ye rillsThat from the beetling hillsDown every rocky wallGlide, gleam, and fall;Ye woods and streams around,Where ...
October (John Jay Chapman Poems)
CLEAR as the dew it kindles on the sprayAcross the shadows of each shelving lawn,The rising sun, with low and ...
Moonlight (John Jay Chapman Poems)
ITHE evening air exhales a spicy scent,The robin warbles, and the thrush replies;And on the terrace a tall regimentOf lillies ...
Harvest Time (John Jay Chapman Poems)
BEHOLD, the harvest is at hand;And thick on the encircling hillsThe sheaves like an encampment stand,Making a martial fairy-landThat half ...
Taps At West Point (John Jay Chapman Poems)
THE dim and wintry river liesTorpid and ice-bound, like a giant snake;And, shouldering round his course, the mountains rise,Hedging his ...
Lines On The Death Of Bismarck (John Jay Chapman Poems)
(Reprinted from "The Political Nursery," midsummer number, 1898)AT midnight Death dismissed the chancellor,But left the soul of Bismarck on his ...
May, 1918 (John Jay Chapman Poems)
THE moon at midnight quenched her vaporous light,Leaving the stars but faintly brightLike tapers that burn ill;And in the fragrant ...
Roosevelt (John Jay Chapman Poems)
LIFE seems belittled when a great man dies;The age ...
May, 1917 (John Jay Chapman Poems)
THE earth is damp: in everythingI taste the bitter breath of pallid spring.Hark! In the air a fanning sound,Like distant ...
Chamber Music (John Jay Chapman Poems)
(Lines read at the dinner given to Mr. and Mrs. E. J. de Coppert on the twenty-fifth anniversary of their ...
A War Wedding (John Jay Chapman Poems)
THE dreamy earth is flooded o'erWith warm and hazy light,September's latest boon, beforeShe feels the hoar frost in the night;And, ...
Lines Read At The New York City Hall Meeting On Lafayette Day, 1918 (John Jay Chapman Poems)
AGAIN we gather here,Beneath the aegis of a sacred name,To hold our feast, and with our altar-flameSignal the passage of ...
The Kneisel Quartet (John Jay Chapman Poems)
(Lines read at the dinner given to its members upon their retirement)HAPPY the man who with steadfast devotionWalks through the ...
The Christening (John Jay Chapman Poems)
THE evening wore on with the Judge in the chairWhile song after song sought the rafter;We crowned him with holly ...
Augustus Peabody Gardner (John Jay Chapman Poems)
I SEE-within my spirit-mystic walls,And slender windows casting hallowed lightAlong dim aisles where many a shadow fallsOn text and trophy, ...
Retrospection (John Jay Chapman Poems)
WHEN we all lived togetherIn the farm among the hills,And the early summer weatherHad flushed the little rills;And Jack and ...
Heroes (John Jay Chapman Poems)
I SEE them hasting toward the lightWhere war's dim watchfires glow;The stars that burn in Europe's nightConduct them to the ...
The Armistice (John Jay Chapman Poems)
WHEN from a mighty storm far out at seaRoll in the glassy and gigantic waves,-Wreck-laden Tritons, bearing in their armsThe ...
A Prayer (John Jay Chapman Poems)
O GOD when the heart is warmest,And the head is clearest,Give me to act:To turn the purposes thou formestInto fact.O ...
In Time Of War (John Jay Chapman Poems)
SORROW, that watches while the body sleeps,Parted the curtains of the cruel dawnAnd glided noiselessly to her sad seatBeside my ...
To A Dog (John Jay Chapman Poems)
PAST happiness dissolves. It fades away,Ghost-like, in that dim attic of the mindTo which the dreams of childhood are consigned.Here, ...
Autumn Dews (John Jay Chapman Poems)
THROW open the shutters, it's seven o'clock!And impertinent crows take their flight at the shock;Then dropping their breakfast, they scoff ...
Song After Ronsard (John Jay Chapman Poems)
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Sappho’s Last Song (John Jay Chapman Poems)
THIS was the summer whose gradual splendorBurned the meridian while the deep seaWhispering, murmuring, watched the surrender,Cradled my union, my ...
The Hudson (John Jay Chapman Poems)
BATHED in a dying lightThe far out-stretching valley liesBeneath the mingling veils of day and night;Fruit trees and gardens, woodland ...
Our Sailor (John Jay Chapman Poems)
OH yes, he came again! But 'twas not he.A youth no longer ours, nay, taller, older;A serious young ensign, stern, ...
Trees In Autumn (John Jay Chapman Poems)
THE poets have made Autumn sorrowful;I find her joyous, radiant, serene.Her pomp is hung in a deep azure skyThat turns ...
The Swallows (John Jay Chapman Poems)
THE hills of Camden mile on mileFling their green mantle o'er the bay;The dark waves dance about the isleWhere we ...
Arethusa (John Jay Chapman Poems)
MY heart was emptied like a mountain poolThat sinks in earthquake to some pit below,As thou did'st leave me. All ...