The Ballad of Oriskany (Obadiah Cyrus Auringer Poems)
SHE leaned her cheek upon her hand,And looked across the glooming land;She saw the wood from farm to farmTouched by ...
SHE leaned her cheek upon her hand,And looked across the glooming land;She saw the wood from farm to farmTouched by ...
IDost thou not know God's country, where it lies?That land long dreamed of, more desired than gold,Which noble souls, by ...
THE EAGLE of the armies of the West,Dying upon his alp, near to the sky,Through the slow days that paled ...
WEARY at heart with winter yesterday,I sought the fields for something green to see,Some budded turf or mossbank quietlyUncovered in ...
A REMINISCENCE OF COOPERBlank shadow here. The heights on either handSparkle with lamps. Around me foams the bold,Loud Hudson,-swiftly into darkness rolled.Those ...
Welcome, strong soul of Poesy, once more!O where so long hast thou been wandering?Thou comest to me like the gales ...
Filled with a quiet sadness nigh to tears,When tears come fresh from no ungentle spring,Beside this stream, whose tongue runs ...
Too fairy-light of keel, and swift of sailTo bide the winds and currents of the world,At last good-by to fickle ...
In deep green woods there lies a fairy glade,Shut in by tawny hemlocks wild and tall;Its floor is made with ...
'Tis not where sculpture rules a world grown dimFair Hellas lies, so dear to poet's heart,-Not in the galleries of ...
O Winter! thou art not that haggard Lear,With stormy beard and countenance of woe,Raving amain, or dumbly crouching low,In hoary desolation ...
A pulseless languor lay upon the sea,The solemn mountains rested in their calm,The mighty forests slumbered, and the palmAbove the ...
On the bare cliffs in lonely reveryI wait, and hear far off the smothered shocksOf billows plunging on the stubborn ...
We sat upon the shore, my friend and I;The lake lay rocking in the morning shine,Odors of gum were round ...
Along the hushed aisles, little frequented,Except by feet on sacred service bentAt Sabbath's hour of praise or sacrament,The gathering pastors ...
One stood upon the morning hills and sawThe heavens revealed in symbol and in sign;He read their mystic meanings, line ...
What feeble and unhappy bards are we,Who trace our lines with over-cunning handUpon a narrow strip of seashore sand,Washed over ...
Thou art the friend and comrade, Poesy,For whom I suffer all things, still contentIf not in vain for thee my ...
All riches, honor, fame's divine estate,Are due the gentle poet and his song.The earth is first for him; to him ...
A bird with azure breast and beak of gold,A joyous stranger, beautiful and shy,Flown from far groves beneath a summer ...
'Tis not so sad to know that thus he died,Small power hath Death to trouble such as he,Whom, overcome by ...
There is a kingdom in a rugged land;It lies between a mountain and a sea;A torrent roaring down in headlong ...
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