Fragment Of An Indian Poem. (George Pope Morris Poems)
They come!--Be firm--in silence rally!The long-knives our retreat have found!Hark!--their tramp is in the valley,And they hem the forest round!The ...
They come!--Be firm--in silence rally!The long-knives our retreat have found!Hark!--their tramp is in the valley,And they hem the forest round!The ...
So cruel prison how could betide, alas, As proud Windsor? Where I in lust and joy With a king's son my childish ...
"Lord, in Thy field I work all day,I read, I teach, I warn, I pray,And yet these wilful wandering sheepWithin ...
Come near me with thy lips, and, breathe o'er mineTheir breath, for I consume with love's desire,--Thine ivory arms about ...
On the holy mount of Ida,Where the pine and cypress grow,Sate a young and lovely woman,Weeping ever, weeping low.Drearily throughout ...
There's a wood-way winding high,Roofed far up with light-green flicker,Save one midmost star of sky.Underfoot 'tis all pale brownWith the ...
Last night unpleasing visions round my head,In horror clad, their baleful influence spread!Spectres most ghastly rose before my view,And every ...
Still through Egypt's desert places Flows the lordly Nile,From its banks the great stone faces Gaze with patient smile.Still the pyramids imperious Pierce ...
INFERNO 33, 22-75.Now had the loophole of that dungeon, stillWhich bears the name of Famine's Tower from me,And where 'tis ...
True! Spring renews the faded year;And renovated fruits and flowersIn re-awaken'd charms appear:—They deck the plain—they crown the bowers—Their blush ...
Thy hands are like cool herbs that bring Balm to men's hearts, upon them laid; Thy lovely-petalled lips are madeAs any blossom ...
I1.Love, though for this you riddle me with darts,.And drag me at your chariot till I die, --.Oh, heavy prince! ...
SPIRIT of song, whose shining wings have borneOur souls of old to many a clear blue height,Comes there the day ...
ILONG, long ago I saw Blind Tom.The noisy audience became calm,And a hush fell o'er the whispering din,When the blind ...
Ya Kessmas neet, or then aboot,When measons all were frozzen oot,I went to see a country friend,An hospitable hoor to ...
HE.CANST thou give, oh fair and matchless maiden,'Neath the shadow of the lindens yonder,—Where I'd fain one moment cease to ...
IT chanced that while the pious troops of FranceFought in the crusade Pio Nono preached,What time the holy Bourbons stayed ...
Why should we faint and fear to live alone, Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die,Nor e'en the tenderest ...
O Sadducees and Pharisees, Who harass the divine,Now harken with reluctancy How Daphne made the wine!(I drain a glass of bootleg Scotch, For ...
Merrily rang out the midnight bells, Glad tidings of joy for all;As crouched a little shiv'ring child, Close by the churchyard wall.The ...
As when the sun above a dusky wold,Springs into sight and turns the gloom to gold,Lights with his magic beams ...
When insect wings are glistening in the beamOf the low sun, and mountain-tops are bright,Oh, let me, by the crystal ...
The little old ladyWas walking along the street.She carried her head high though of small stature,And although he ermine mantle ...
UNDER the stars the armies lie asleep:Between the lines a quiet river flowsThrough brakes of honeysuckle, and of rose,And fields ...
I saw her, Harry, first, in March —You know the street that leadeth downBy the old bridge's crumbling arch? —Just ...
Through the waning hours and moments,Of the slowly dying year,I sat watching, watching, waiting,For the New Dawn to appear.While the ...
Come, Little One, and sing to me A song our big wide land to bless,Around whose gentle parent-knee We've twined the flowers ...
When we went hunting the Dragon In the days when we were young, We tossed the bright world over our shoulder As bugle ...
Well may I guess and feel Why Autumn should be sad; But vernal airs should sorrow heal, Spring should be gay and glad: Yet ...
Go not away, thou weary soul: Heaven has in store a precious doleHere on Bethsaida's cold and darksome height, Where over rocks ...
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