Afar in the Desert (Thomas Pringle Poems)
Afar in the Desert I love to ride,With the silent Bush-boy alone by my side:When the sorrows of life the ...
Afar in the Desert I love to ride,With the silent Bush-boy alone by my side:When the sorrows of life the ...
MY cousin, I have never seen thee--yetFrom childhood's early years my dearest thoughtsHave been so full of thee, I almost ...
If yet, my Lord, your Sorrows find relief,And a short Pause succeeds your weighty Grief;With Candour this unwelcome Verse peruse,The ...
WHO at the court of Astolf, the great King,King of a realm of firs, and icy floes,Cold bright fiords, and ...
In dreams on a far-off shore I lay(Dreams that were full of dread),Where the purple clouds of a dying dayShadowed ...
Whether I loved you who shall say?Whether I drifted down your wayIn the endless River of Chance and Change,And you ...
I. Wafted o'er purple seas, From gold Hesperides, Mixed with the southern breeze, Hail to us spirits! Dripping with fragrant rains, Fire of our ardent veins, Life ...
O THE long days and nights! The days that bringNo sunshine that my shrinking soul can bear,The nights that soothe ...
YOU request me, my friend, on true courage to write;Yet do you reflect, that whilst I indite,Or attempt to explain ...
I hear thy voice in the lonely pinesWhen the winds arise in their unknown lair;In the rush of waves in ...
KLEINER! in whose quick pulses wildly beat The youth's ambition, and the lyrist's heat, Whose questing spirit scorns our lowly flights, And dares ...
At the epoch which I write of quite the smartest men in townWere Marmaduke de Coucy and Adolphus Brummel-Brown;They led ...
When He shows His Nature to His creation, into what mirror shall He enter? The burden of proclaiming the Unity ...
That sculptor we knew, the passionate-eyed son of a quarryman,Who astonished Rome and Paris in his meteor youth, and thenwas ...
Sweet garden, wreathed in fruits and flowers,And domed by blue Tyrolean skies,Within thy rose-encircled bowers,Secluded from all curious eyes,I find ...
Goddess of Liberty! O thouWhose tearless eyes behold the chain,And look unmoved upon the slain,Eternal peace upon thy brow,-Before thy ...
Dear Friend, we come to yield anew The reverence we owe thy name, And celebrate with fresh acclaimOur Quaker Poet, strong and ...
IN the depths of the silent wood the temple of Friendship stood,Like a dream of snow-white stone, or a vestal ...
"ALL ready?" cried the captain;"Ay, ay!" the seamen said;"Heave up the worthless lubbers, -The dying and the dead."Up from the ...
"All thoughts, all passions, all delights,Whatever stirs this mortal frame,"Are but the legacies of apes,With interest on the same.How oft ...
IN vain to me the howling deepStern Winter's awful reign discloses:In vain shall Summer zephyrs sleepOn fragrant beds of budding ...
Lonely was the blossomingOf the sad unwelcomed Spring;And Man, the slave of passions blind and brute,A wanderer in a world ...
When this burning fleshBurns down in Time's slow fire to a glowing ash;When these lips have utteredThe last word, and ...
None will dwell in that cottage; for, they sayOppression reft it from an honest man,And that a curse clings to ...
When Scaliger, whole years of labour past,Beheld his lexicon complete at lastAnd weary of his task, with wond'ring eyes,Saw, from ...
I Have heard sundry men oft times disputeOf trees, that in one year will twice bear fruit.But if a man ...
O, MANDRAGORA, many sing in praiseOf life, and death, and immortality,--Of passion, that goes famished all her days,--Of Faith, or ...
Helen, in her silent room,Weaves upon the upright loom;Weaves a mantle rich and dark,Purpled over, deep. But markHow she scatters ...
'TWAS on a gloomy sombre night,When clust'ring clouds had form'dInto a mass so densely thick,That Nature seem'd appall'd!The whistling winds ...
Ye virgins! fond to be admired,With mighty rage of conquest fired,And universal sway;Who heave th' uncover'd bosom high,And roll a ...
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