Chicomico – Part V (Lucretia Maria Davidson Poems)
THE fourth day found the dark tribe brooding o'erTheir chieftain's body, chieftain now no more!As fire half-quench'd, some faint spark ...
THE fourth day found the dark tribe brooding o'erTheir chieftain's body, chieftain now no more!As fire half-quench'd, some faint spark ...
THERE's silence in the princely halls,And brightly blaze the lighted walls,While clouds of musk and incense riseFrom vases of a ...
(Written in her fourteenth year.)WHAT sight of horror, fear and woe,Now greets chief Hillis-ha-ad-joe?What thought of blood now lights his ...
WHILE swift on his way young Rathmond sped,Death's horrors awaited those he fled.Already were the prisoners bound,One word, and every ...
AN ALLEGORY,(Written in her fifteenth year)The night was calm, the sky serene,The sea a mirror display'd,On its bosom the twinkling ...
(Written in her fifteenth year.)'T was evening - all was calm and silent, saveThe low hoarse dashing of the distant ...
I have pass'd o'er the earth in the darkness of night,I have walk'd the wild winds in the morning's broad ...
When bending o'er the brink of life,My trembling soul shall stand,Waiting to pass death's awful flood,Great God! at thy command.When ...
(Written in her fifteenth year.)Headache! thou bane to Pleasure's fairy spell,Thou fiend, thou foe to joy, I know thee well!Beneath ...
A FRAGMENT,(Written in her fifteenth year.)Must every shore ring boldly to the voiceOf sweet poetic harmony, save this?Rouse thee, America! ...
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