Vision Of Columbus – Book 7 (Joel Barlow Poems)
Hail sacred Peace, who claim'st thy bright abode,Mid circling saints that grace the throne of God.Before his arm, around the ...
Hail sacred Peace, who claim'st thy bright abode,Mid circling saints that grace the throne of God.Before his arm, around the ...
Bright Arts, abus'd, like Gems, receive their Flaws;Physick has Quacks, and Quirks obscure the Laws.Fables to shade Historic Truths combine,And ...
(Song of the uncommunicated Ideal.)I.I opened the eyes of my soul. And behold,A white river-lily: a lily awake, and aware,—For she set ...
OLD HAM FRESH DREST , &c. BOOTED and spurr'd,our gallant wightReturning late one winter's nightFrom toil, hard ware and duty,Took ...
IN these bold times, when Learning's sons exploreThe distant climate and the savage shore;When wise Astronomers to India steer,And quit ...
The little pitiful, worn, laughing faces,Begging of Life for Joy!I saw the little daughters of the poor,Tense from the long ...
A patriot be - for knowledge, freedom,The soul's too small a price to pay!Mind you, not his soul, my brothers,The ...
{TO THE Generous SUBSCRIBERS, &c}. The Author finding all Attempts prove vain,Those glittering Smiles from Fortune to obtain:That purblind Goddess ...
DEATH OF LEMMINKAINEN.Lemminkainen, much disheartened,Deeply thought and long considered,What to do, what course to follow,Whether best to leave the wild-mooseIn ...
Gyved and chained in his father's home, He toiled 'neath a conqueror's rule;Bowed to the earth in the land of ...
A Thriving Merchant, who no Loss sustained, In little time a mighty Fortune gain'd. No Pyrate seiz'd his still returning ...
They say that 'war is hell,' the 'great accursed,'The sin impossible to be forgiven;Yet I can look beyond it at ...
The ferox rins in rough Loch Awe,A weary cry frae ony toun;The Spey, that loups o'er linn and fa',They praise ...
I could not bring this splendid world nor any trading beastIn charge of it, to defer, no, not to give ...
A VOLCANO in Iceland I seek, And another on Sicily's plain,With a trading town standing to Hereford ...
A Thriving Merchant, who no Loss sustained, In little time a mighty Fortune gain'd. No Pyrate seiz'd his still returning ...
I met a lady from the South who said (You won't believe she said it, but she said it): "None ...
When I was just a little boy, Before I went to school, I had a fleet of forty sail I ...
I said goodbye to Beale Street one year, eyes hurting from the painful contrast of stark white on black - ...
Come, kings, and listen to my song: When Gwin, the son of Nore, Over the nations of the North His ...
If you danced from midnight to six A.M. who would understand? The runaway boy who chucks it all to live ...
A monosyllabic European called Sax Invents a horn, walla whirledy wah, a kind of twisted Brazen clarinet, but with its ...
High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind, Or where the ...
I could not bring this splendid world nor any trading beast In charge of it, to defer, no, not to ...
"O Trade! O Trade! would thou wert dead! The Time needs heart -- 'tis tired of head: We're all for ...
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