The Dream (Juan Francisco Manzano Poems)
ADDRESSED TO MY YOUNGER BROTHER. THOU knowest, dear Florence, my sufferings of old, The struggles maintained with oppression for years, We shared them ...
Juan Francisco Manzano Poems (8 Poems)
Religion (Juan Francisco Manzano Poems)
AN ODE. YES, tho' in gloom and sadness I may rise, One blessed strain can soothe my troubled soul, No sooner wakened than ...
To Cuba (Juan Francisco Manzano Poems)
CUBA, of what avail that thou art fair! Pearl of the seas, the pride of the Antilles! If thy poor sons, have ...
The Cucuya; Or Fire-Fly (Juan Francisco Manzano Poems)
THE fire-fly is heedlessly wandering about, Through field and through forest is winging his route, As free as the butterfly sporting in ...
To Death (Juan Francisco Manzano Poems)
Oh, thou dread scourge and terror of our race, While thy strong hand bows down the proudest head, Filling the earth with ...
Thirty Years (Juan Francisco Manzano Poems)
WHEN I think on the course I have run, From my childhood itself to this day, I tremble, and fain would I ...
The Clock That Gains (Juan Francisco Manzano Poems)
THE Clock's too fast they say; But what matter, how it gains! Time will not pass away Any faster for its pains. The tiny ...
To Calumny (Juan Francisco Manzano Poems)
Silence, audacious wickedness which aims At honour's breast, or strikes with driftless breath, The lightest word that's spoken thus defames, And where it ...