A Story Of Plantagenet (Nora Pembroke Poems)
In the small Village of St Joseph, below the City of Ottawa, stilllives or did live very recently, an ancient ...
Nora Pembroke Poems (76 Poems)
The Fate Of Henry Hudson (Nora Pembroke Poems)
I, Louis Marin, mariner, born on the Breton coast, Must pass from earth away, And, because wild remorse Pursues me--is my curse, My guilty ...
The Prince Of Anhalt Dessau (Nora Pembroke Poems)
The young Prince of Anhalt Dessau, The Dowager's only son,Was a sturdy strong-limbed fellow And a most determined one.Shook the tutor his ...
Tecumthe (Nora Pembroke Poems)
October's leaf was sere; The day was dark and drear.Wild war was loosed in rage o'er our quiet country then; When at ...
The Iroquois Side Of The Story (Nora Pembroke Poems)
I, an Iroquois brave,Speak from my forest grave,Where by Utawa's wave I sleep in glory.Listen, pale faces, then,Let years roll back ...
Nora To David Herbison (Nora Pembroke Poems)
There's a place in the North where the bonnie broom grows,Where winding through green meadows the silver Maine flows,Every lark ...
Answer to Burn’s Address To The De’il (Nora Pembroke Poems)
O thou wild rantin' wicked wit;Are thy works, thy fame livin' yet?Will thae daft people never quit An ne'er ha'e doneDisturbin' ...
A Legend Of Buckingham Village (Nora Pembroke Poems)
PART IAway up on the River aux Lievres, That is foaming and surging always,And from rock to rock leaping through rapids, Which ...
We Lament Not For One But Many (Nora Pembroke Poems)
'At last he is dead'So the wondering, horror-struck neighbours said, A skilful touch of his knife Has cut the thread of a ...
How Prince Arthur Was Welcomed To Pembroke (Nora Pembroke Poems)
Do you know the town Pembroke so loyal and longAnd so worthy the praise of a poet in song?Nestled down ...
A New Year’s Address, 1870. (Nora Pembroke Poems)
With noiseless footstep, like the white-robed snow, The old year with closed record steals away;Record of gladness, suffering, joy, and woe, Of ...
Erin, Mavourneen (Nora Pembroke Poems)
A Prize Poem.I know Canada is fair to see, and pleasant; it is wellOn the banks of its broad river ...
The Song Of The Bereaved (Nora Pembroke Poems)
With garments for sorrow torn, With eyelids heavy and red,A woman sat by a new-made grave, Bewailing her slaughtered dead--Weep! weep! weep! Tears ...
Bereavement (Nora Pembroke Poems)
It was not that I lived a life of ease, Quiet, secure, apart from every care;For on the darkest of my ...
In Memory Of John Leach Craig (Nora Pembroke Poems)
What is it that has stilled the usual hurry, Checking the eager tread of rapid feet?Why does the business face look ...
Creed And Conduct Combined As Cause And Effect (Nora Pembroke Poems)
The Presbytery with one accord in one place,Were met to consider and speak on the caseOf David Macrae, bent with ...
On The Birth Of Albert Edward, Prince Of Wales (Nora Pembroke Poems)
Sing and rejoice, With heart and voice,An heir is born to the British Crown, A royal son, A princely one,One born to glory ...
A Satire. A Humble Imitation (Nora Pembroke Poems)
The rage for writing has spread far and wide,Letters on letters now are multiplied,And every mortal, who can hold a ...
Comfort Ye, Comfort Ye My People (Nora Pembroke Poems)
By the sad fellowship of human suffering, By the bereavements that are thine and mine,I venture--oh, forgive me!--with this offering, I would ...
Keeping Tryst (Nora Pembroke Poems)
Who is the maid with silken hair By clear Maine Water roaming?For the fairy Queen is not so fair As she in ...
My Own Green Land (Nora Pembroke Poems)
It was in the early morning Of life, and of hope to me,I sat on a grassy hillside Of the Isle beyond ...
Erin’s Address To The Hon. Thomas D’Arcy McGee (Nora Pembroke Poems)
O thou son of the dark locks and eloquent tongue,With the brain of a statesman sagacious, and strong,And the heart ...
Weep With Those Who Weep (Nora Pembroke Poems)
O friends, I cannot comfort, but will share with you your grieving, In the valley of the shadow where you sit ...
Farewell To Lord And Lady Dufferin (Nora Pembroke Poems)
In leaving us, whom thou hast governed well Holding the helm of state through all these yearsThe land at large unites ...
Lines To A Shamrock (Nora Pembroke Poems)
A SONG OF EXILEA withered shamrock, yet to me 'tis fair As the sweet rose to other eyes might be,Because its ...
Orson’s Farewell (Nora Pembroke Poems)
(ORSON GROUT),_One of the victims of the Southern Prisons._Sit by me comrade, thou and I have stood Shoulder to shoulder on ...
Servants (Nora Pembroke Poems)
They are but servants, say the words of scorning, As though they meant to say, we're finer clay,Yet, all the universe ...
To My Friend (Nora Pembroke Poems)
Dearest of all, whose tenderness could rise To share all sorrow and to soothe all pain;The blessings breathed for thee with ...
Retrospect (Nora Pembroke Poems)
I sit by the fire in the gloaming, In the depths of my easy chair,And I ponder, as old men ponder, Over ...
Forsaken (Nora Pembroke Poems)
Beside the open window she is lying, Through which comes softly in the balmy air,And fans her wasted cheek; but slowly ...