The Culprit Fay (Joseph Rodman Drake Poems)
I.'TIS the middle watch of a summer's night -The earth is dark, but the heavens are bright;Nought is seen in ...
I.'TIS the middle watch of a summer's night -The earth is dark, but the heavens are bright;Nought is seen in ...
I.'TIS the middle watch of a summer's night -The earth is dark, but the heavens are bright;Nought is seen in ...
It is a summer evening, calm and fair,A warm, yet freshening glow is in the air;Along its bank, the cool ...
YES, faint was my applause and cold my praise,Though soul was glowing in each polished line;But nobler subjects claim the ...
I.TUSCARA! thou art lovely now,Thy woods, that frown'd in sullen strengthLike plumage on a giant's brow,Have bowed their massy pride ...
ITuscara! thou art lovely now,Thy woods, that frown'd in sullen strengthLike plumage on a giant's brow,Have bowed their massy pride ...
I.Roar, raging torrent! and thou, mighty river,Pour thy white foam on the valley below;Frown, ye dark mountains! and shadow for ...
I.WHEN Freedom from her mountain heightUnfurled her standard to the air,She tore the azure robe of night,And set the stars ...
I SAT me down upon a green bank-side,Skirting the smooth edge of a gentle river,Whose waters seemed unwillingly to glide,Like ...
Awake,ye forms of verse divine! Painting! descend on canvas wing,-And hover o'er my head, Design! Your son, your glorious son, I sing;At ...
I.ONE happy year has fled, Sall,Since you were all my own,The leaves have felt the autumn blight,The wintry storm has ...
'Tis not the beam of her bright blue eye,Nor the smile of her lip of rosy dye,Nor the dark brown ...
The man who frets at worldly strife Grows sallow, sour, and thin;Give us the lad whose happy life Is one perpetual grin:He, ...
WHENE'ER thy wandering footstep bendsIts pathway to the Hermit tree,Among its cordial band of friends,Sweet Mary! wilt thou number me?Though ...
SEE through yon cloud that rolls in wrath,One little star benignant peep,To light along their trackless pathThe wanderers of the ...
Oh the tear is in my eye, and my heart it is breaking,Thou hast fled from me, Connor, and left ...
Is thy heart weary of unfeeling men,And chilled with the world's ice? Then come with me,And I will bring thee ...
GRANT me, I cried, some spell of art,To turn with all a lover's care,That spotless page, my Eva's heart,And write ...
YES! heaven protect thee, thou gem of the ocean;Dear land of my sires, though distant thy shores;Ere my heart cease ...
Yes! heaven protect thee, thou gem of the ocean;Dear land of my sires, though distant thy shores;Ere my heart cease ...
OH! go to sleep, my baby dear,And I will hold thee on my knee;Thy mother's in her winding sheet,And thou ...
Oh! go to sleep, my baby dear,And I will hold thee on my knee;Thy mother's in her winding sheet,And thou ...
When that eye of light shall in darkness fall,And thy bosom be shrouded in death's cold pall,When the bloom of ...
DAY gradual fades, in evening gray,Its last faint beam hath fled,And sinks the sun's declining rayIn ocean's wavy bed.So o'er ...
A BEAM upon the myrtle fellFrom dewy evening's purest sky,'Twas like the glance I love so well,Dear Eva, from thy ...
THOUGH fate upon this faded flowerHis withering hand has laid,Its odour'd breath defies his power,Its sweets are undecayed.And thus, although ...
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