The Burning of Chicago (Kate Seymour Maclean Poems)
Out of the west a voice—a shudder of horror and pity; Quivers along the pulses of all the winds that blow;—Woe ...
Out of the west a voice—a shudder of horror and pity; Quivers along the pulses of all the winds that blow;—Woe ...
I Here where a tree and its wild liana, Leaning over the streamlet, grow, Once a nymph, like the moon'd Diana, Sat in the ...
The sea is mighty, but a mightier swaysHis restless billows. Thou, whose hands have scoopedHis boundless gulfs and built his ...
The secrets of the mind convene splendidly,Though the mind is meek.To be aware inwardlyof brain and beautyIs dark too recognizable.Thought ...
What a lot ov advice ther is wasted;-- What praichin is all thrown away;--Young fowk lang for pleasures untasted, An its little ...
TOKEN Of friendship true and tried,From one whose fiery heart of youthWith mine has beaten, side by side,For Liberty and ...
Come near me with thy lips, and, breathe o'er mineTheir breath, for I consume with love's desire,--Thine ivory arms about ...
How long will this harp which you once loved to hearCheat your lips of a smile or your eyes of ...
I. The juice-big apples' sullen gold, Like lazy Sultans laughed and lolled 'Mid heavy mats of leaves that lay Green-flatten'd 'gainst the glaring day; And ...
After the Hazara WarI lie alone beneath the Almond blossoms, Where we two lay together in the spring,And now, as then, ...
When the earliest south winds softly blowOver the brown earth, and the waning snowIn the last days of the discrowned ...
God of the morning! Thou, the sabbath's God!Round whose bright footsteps thousand planets roll:A million beings at Thy mighty nodAre ...
One afternoon when the sun was hotI takes a snooze on the quay;An' a kink in my neck I must ...
Scene I—Marriage of Sir R. Peel With Lady E. HaySee yonder gorgeous fane, its doors expand,Throng'd with the rank, wealth, ...
There are who triumph in a losing cause,Who can put on defeat, as 'twere a wreathUnwithering in the adverse popular ...
I1.Love, though for this you riddle me with darts,.And drag me at your chariot till I die, --.Oh, heavy prince! ...
Shall it be said that the wind's gone overThe hill this night, and no ghost there?Not the shape of an ...
What's man but a heathenish bandit?Earth's charity proves but a lie -Tis given with looks that remand it;Philanthropy's all in ...
WELL speed thy mission, bold Iconoclast!Yet all unworthy of its trust thou art,If, with dry eye, and cold, unloving heart,Thou ...
While I did narrowly investigate, The race, and linage of my sinnes, I found that sinne, and I were twinnes, Begotten, and brought ...
O friends, I cannot comfort, but will share with you your grieving, In the valley of the shadow where you sit ...
The little old ladyWas walking along the street.She carried her head high though of small stature,And although he ermine mantle ...
Nay, Mr. Simpson!--'Tis not kind--polite--To shut me out, sir?--I'm in such a fright!--I can not speak the lines, I'm sure!--Oh, ...
ON RECEIVING A BASKET OF SEA-MOSSES.Thanks for thy giftOf ocean flowers,Born where the golden driftOf the slant sunshine fallsDown the ...
Frank is dead! The mournful messageComes gushing from the ocean's roar.Frank is dead! His mortal passageHas ended on the heavenly ...
Down the green slope he bounded. Raven curls From his white shoulders by the winds were swept, And the clear color of ...
After forty years. Sacred these walls wherein I find Myself inclosed once more; Here in youth's pride my ardent mind On nightly tasks would ...
When we went hunting the Dragon In the days when we were young, We tossed the bright world over our shoulder As bugle ...
E. S.Once a lively image of human nature, Such as God made itWhen he pronounced every work of his to be ...
I. O Life! O Death! O God! Have I not striven? Have I not known thee, God, As thy stars know Heaven? Have I not ...
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