The Naini Tal Catastrophe Of The 18th September, 1880 (Hannah S Battersby Poems)
The morning broke with streams of welcome rain,Such as the two preceding ones had brought.Rain, that in tropic climes means ...
The morning broke with streams of welcome rain,Such as the two preceding ones had brought.Rain, that in tropic climes means ...
"And Death with Nature's noblest worlds at strife,"Quench'd the fair star that smil'd upon his life.Now the hollow drum resounding, Fired ...
Oh, wilt thou ne'er again, when fade the eves,Loved Cynthius, come soul-trembling to my joy,Till raptured stars shall steal out ...
The sunlight from the sky is swept,But, over Snowdon's summit kept, One brand of cloud yet burns,-By ghostly hands far out ...
The song of Tigilau the brave, Sina's wild lover, Who across the heaving wave From Samoa came over:Came over, Sina, at the setting ...
Love and thy vain employs, awayFrom this too oft deluded breast!No longer will I court thy stay,To be my bosom's ...
WRITTEN IN WINTER.WHY dost thou treat me thus, harsh master, say!Why, with hard usage, wear me half away?Perverse of spirit! ...
OUT of the body for ever, Wearily sobbing, "Oh, whither?"A Soul that hath wasted its chances Floats on the limitless ether.Lost in ...
No more, thou lithe and long-winged hawk, of desert-life for thee;No more across the sultry sands shalt thou go swooping ...
IDo ye quail but to hear, Carolinians,The first foot-tramp of Tyranny's minions?Have ye buckled on armor, and brandished the spear,But ...
How long will this harp which you once loved to hearCheat your lips of a smile or your eyes of ...
DEDICATED TO THE STAY-AT-HOME RANGERSNow, while our soldiers are fighting our battles,Each at his post to do all that he ...
When the earliest south winds softly blowOver the brown earth, and the waning snowIn the last days of the discrowned ...
THE BRAVE FERRY-MAN[NOTE.--The great Sioux massacre in Minnesota commenced at the Agencyvillage, on the Minnesota River, early in the morning ...
Many a day have I wiled away Upon hopeful Farley Heath,In its antique soil digging for spoil Of possible treasure beneath;For celts, ...
I1.Love, though for this you riddle me with darts,.And drag me at your chariot till I die, --.Oh, heavy prince! ...
His cedar paddle, scented, red, He thrust down through the lily bed; Cloaked in a golden pause he lay, Locked in the arms ...
Within a home for captive beastsWhose world had dwindled to a cage,I noted in their mournful eyesSuch resignation, fear, and ...
'Twas at midnight, in the Desert, where we rested on the ground; There my Bedouins were sleeping, and their steeds were ...
BEAR him, comrades, to his grave; Never over one more braveShall the prairie grasses weep, In the ages yet to come,When the ...
See'st thou how gaily my young master goes, Vaunting himself upon his rising toes; And pranks his hand upon his dagger's side; And ...
When insect wings are glistening in the beamOf the low sun, and mountain-tops are bright,Oh, let me, by the crystal ...
When tempest winnowed grain from bran;And men were looking for a man,Authority called you to the van, McClellan:Along the line the ...
It's the flag of France! the flag of France, I see!Life to it! Health to it! fold on fold,With the ...
To horse! to horse! brave Cavaliers!To horse for Church and Crown!Strike, strike your tents! snatch up your spears!And ho for ...
Air — "The Fierce Discharge"In the late rebellion war, Grand Rapids did send outAs brave and noble volunteers As ever went down ...
Heard ye those loud-contending waves, That shook Cecropia's pillar'd state?Saw ye the mighty, from their graves, Look up, and tremble at her ...
Si veris magna paraturFama bonis, et se successu nuda remotoInspicitur virtus, quicquid laudamus in ulloMajorum, ortuna fuit.- LucanWhilst martial echoes ...
Wondrous and awful are thy silent halls, O kingdom of the past!There lie the bygone ages in their palls, Guarded by shadows ...
A pox of this fooling, and plotting of late, What a pother, and stir has it kept in the state? Let the ...
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