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A Dirge For O’connell
Throw open, once again,
The portals of the tomb;
And give, among the glorious dead, … Continue Reading …
A Farewell To Ole Bull
There was a fountain in my heart
Whose deeps had not been stirred;
A thirst for music in my soul … Continue Reading …
A Remembrance
Night closes round me, and wild threatening forms
Clasp me with icy arms and chain me down,
And bind upon my brow a cypress crown,… Continue Reading …
A Thought By The Sea-Shore
Bury me by the sea,
When on my heart the hand of Death is press’d.
If the soul lingers ere she join the bless’d, … Continue Reading …
An Apology For Sadness
When, in the miser’s eager gaze,
His countless treasures lie,
Then most his coward spirit sinks,… Continue Reading …
An Imitation
As once I dreamed, methought I strayed
Within a snow-clad mountain’s shade;
From whose far height the silence bore… Continue Reading …
Aspiration
The planted seed consigned to common earth,
Disdains to moulder with the baser clay;
But rises up to meet the light of day, … Continue Reading …
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Bones In The Desert
Where pilgrims seek the Prophet’s tomb
Across the Arabian waste,
Upon the ever-shifting sands,… Continue Reading …
Books For The People
Light to the darkened mind
Bear, like the sun, the world’s wide circle round,
Bright messengers that speak without a sound! … Continue Reading …
Bryant
Like the antique Grecian marbles,
Is his soul with beauty fraught,
And as polished and enduring… Continue Reading …
Byron Among The Ruins Of Greece
On that sweet shore the blue Agean laves,
Where loveliness is wedded to decay,—
Beauty to desolation,—’mid the graves … Continue Reading …
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Cheney
The Paint-King, envious of his cunning art,
To him the tinted palette would not lend; … Continue Reading …
Christ Betrayed
Eighteen hundred years agone
Was that deed of darkness done—
Was that sacred, thorn-crowned head … Continue Reading …
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Day Dawn In Italy
Italia! in thy bleeding heart,
I thought, e’en hope was dead;
That from thy scarred and prostrate form, … Continue Reading …
Dedication,—To My Mother
The flowers of romance that I cherished,
Around me lie withered and dead;
The stars of my youth’s shining heaven, … Continue Reading …
Durand
Upon his canvas Nature starts to life,
Clear waters flow, majestic trees arise,—
The earth and air with beauty’s shapes are rife, … Continue Reading …
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Epigram
A draught from Helicon could once inspire
The bard to wing in song his loftiest flight; … Continue Reading …
Eros
As when untaught and blind,
To the mute stone the pagan bows his knee,
Spirit of Love! phantom of my own mind! … Continue Reading …
Evening Hymn
On the swift flying hours
Another bright day,
With its tears and its smiles, … Continue Reading …
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Faith
Securely cabined in the ship below,
Through darkness and through storm I cross the sea,
A pathless wilderness of waves to me:… Continue Reading …
Fredrika Bremer (prose)
When it was announced, a few months since, that Fredrika Bremer had landed upon our shores, the intelligence was received by the thousands who have read her works, … Continue Reading …
From De Vigny
Come on the sea, beloved,
Fearless and free;
Leave friends and wealth behind; … Continue Reading …
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Hagar
Untrodden, drear, and lone,
Stretched many a league away,
Beneath a burning, noonday sun, … Continue Reading …
Hope
Maiden! in whose kindling eye,
Burns the fire of prophecy,
On whose brow its glories shine, … Continue Reading …
Huntington’s Picture Of Washington Crossing The Alleghany
More proudly on thy winding course,
Dark Alleghany! flow;
The noblest burden thou couldst bear … Continue Reading …
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Image Worship
Why mounts my blood to cheek and brow,
Like an ascending flame,
Whene’er from careless lips I hear … Continue Reading …
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La Fayette
The wail of France comes o’er the sea,—
She mourns for thee, departed chief;
And we, the children of the Free,… Continue Reading …
Lines
Sing me that song again,
That wild, impassioned lay;
The tumult of my throbbing brain … Continue Reading …
Lines On An Incident Observed From The Deck Of A Steamboat On The Mississippi River
Where the dark primeval forests
Rise against the western sky,
And “the Father of the Waters” … Continue Reading …
Lines On Reading Some Verses, Entitled “A Farewell To Love”
Oh, stern indeed must be that minstrel’s heart,
In the world’s dusty highway doomed to move,
Who with life’s sunshine and its flowers can part, … Continue Reading …
Lines To Frederika Bremer
Hereafter!—nay, thou hast thy wish e’en here;
To many a striving spirit dost thou come,
Sweet lady, from thy far-off northern home, … Continue Reading …
Lines To One Who Wished To Read A Poem I Had Written
Nay, read it not, thou wouldst not know
What lives within my heart,
For from that fount it does not flow; … Continue Reading …
Little Red Riding Hood
Sweet child of fairy land! since first
I dwelt, with tearful eye,
Upon the page that tells thy tale, … Continue Reading …
Love
Go forth in life, oh friend! not seeking love;
A mendicant, that with imploring eye
And outstretched hand asks of the passers by … Continue Reading …
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Memory
Maiden of the lofty brow,
Mournful eye and cheek of snow;
Thou whose gaze is ever cast … Continue Reading …
Milton
Oh bard! what though upon thy mortal eyes
There fell no glimmering ray of earthly light,
And the deep shadow of eternal night … Continue Reading …
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Nightfall In Hungary
As when the sun in darkness sets,
And night falls on the earth,
Along the azure fields above… Continue Reading …
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Ode
Our patriot sires are gone,
The conqueror Death lays low
Those veterans one by one,… Continue Reading …
Ode For The Fourth Of July
A glorious vision burst
On Europe’s dazzled sight,
Upon that day when first… Continue Reading …
On A Picture
When Summer o’er her native hills
A veil of beauty spread,
She sat and watched her gentle fold, … Continue Reading …
On A Picture
Why bends she o’er that glittering toy
With such an earnest gaze,
As if those flashing jewels cast… Continue Reading …
On A Picture
I strive in vain those features to restore
To Memory’s faded tablets, which on me,
From the mute ivory, beam so lovingly,… Continue Reading …
On A Picture Of Harvey Birch
I know not if thy noble worth
My country’s annals claim,
For in her brief, bright history … Continue Reading …
On A Picture Of Ruth
Fresh, through the mist of ages past,
Thou risest on our view,
As when from Judah’s waving fields, … Continue Reading …
On A Picture Of The Virgin
If the young mother clasp, for the first time,
The mortal child that earthly love has given,
With a deep joy preluding that of heaven; … Continue Reading …
On Seeing Mrs. Kean As Constance, In King John
’Twas no illusion; from the Past the veil was rent away;
The tide that never changes ebbed, and bore me to that day,
When in the lists and on the field brave deeds of arms were done, … Continue Reading …
On Seeing The Ivory Statue Of Christ
The enthusiast brooding in his cell apart
O’er the sad image of the Crucified,—
The drooping head, closed lips and piercéd side,— … Continue Reading …
On The Death Of A Friend
There was no bell to peal thy funeral dirge,
No nodding plumes to wave above thy bier,
No shroud to wrap thee but the foaming surge, … Continue Reading …
On The Death Of An Infant
Why should we weep for thee,
Since thou hast gone unsullied back to heaven,
No stain upon thy spirit’s purity, … Continue Reading …
On The Death Of Mrs. N. P. Willis
In life’s freshness, and its fulness,—
In thy womanhood’s young bloom,
While thy brow was all unclouded… Continue Reading …
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Paul Preaching At Athens
Greece! hear that joyful sound,
A stranger’s voice upon thy sacred hill;
Whose tones shall bid the slumbering nations round, … Continue Reading …
Prometheus
Thou brave old Titan, that in chains didst lie,
Bound to the rock on the Caucasian hill,
Who by sublime endurance didst defy … Continue Reading …
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Requiem
To what bright world afar didst thou belong,
Thou whose pure soul seemed not of mortal birth?
From what fair clime of flowers and love and song,… Continue Reading …
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Science
Darkness sat brooding o’er the infant world,
That in chaotic gloom and silence lay,
Till from the throne of Light the sun was hurled; … Continue Reading …
Sonnet
Oh! in that better land to which I go,
Say, shall I know thee as I know thee here;
And will thy presence dim that glorious sphere,… Continue Reading …
Sonnet
Oh thou who once on earth, beneath the weight
Of our mortality didst live and move,
The incarnation of profoundest love;… Continue Reading …
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Tarpeia
“Give me the bracelets that your warriors wear,”
The Roman traitress to the Sabine cried,
“Give me the toys, and I will be your guide, … Continue Reading …
Teaching The Scriptures
Child of the thoughtful brow,
The speaking eye and the confiding look!
List to those teachings now, … Continue Reading …
The Battle Of Life
There are countless fields the green earth o’er,
Where the verdant turf has been dyed with gore;
Where hostile ranks in their grim array, … Continue Reading …
The Bee
The honey-bee that wanders all day long,
The field, the woodland, and the garden o’er,
To gather in his fragrant winter store, … Continue Reading …
The Dumb Creation
Deal kindly with those speechless ones,
That throng our gladsome earth;
Say not the bounteous gift of life … Continue Reading …
The Dying Sycamores
A beauty like young womanhood’s
Upon the green earth lies,
And June’s sweet smile hath waked again … Continue Reading …
The Earth To The Sun
Oh Sun! oh glorious Sun!
The spell of winter binds me strong and dread
In the dark sleep, the coldness of the dead; … Continue Reading …
The Ideal
A sad, sweet dream; it fell upon my soul
When song and thought first woke their echoes there,
Swaying my spirit to its wild control, … Continue Reading …
The Ideal Found
I’ve met thee, whom I dared not hope to meet,
Save in the enchanted land of my day-dreams:
Yes, in this common world, this waking state, … Continue Reading …
The Image Broken
’Twas but a dream; a fond and foolish dream;
The calenture of a delirious brain,
Whose fever thirst creates the rushing stream. … Continue Reading …
The Lake And Star
The mountain lake, o’ershadowed by the hills,
May still gaze heavenward on the evening star,
Whose distant light its dark recesses fills, … Continue Reading …
The Mediterranean
Hail! thou eternal flood, whose restless waves
Roll onward in their course, as wild and free,
As if the shores they lashed were not the graves … Continue Reading …
The Sun And Stream
As some dark stream within a cavern’s breast,
Flows murmuring, moaning for the distant sun,
So ere I met thee, murmuring its unrest, … Continue Reading …
The Wasted Fountains
When the fitful fever of the soul
Is awakened in thee first;
And thou goest like Judah’s children forth, … Continue Reading …
The Wounded Vulture
A kingly vulture sat alone,
Lord of the ruin round,
Where Egypt’s ancient monuments … Continue Reading …
Thoughts In A Library
Speak low—tread softly through these halls;
Here genius lives enshrined,—
Here reign, in silent majesty, … Continue Reading …
To —
Within these leafless trees,
That bare against the sky,
Their naked branches rear; … Continue Reading …
To —
Ah no! my love knows no vain jealousy:
The rose that blooms and lives but in the sun,
Asks not what other flowers he shines upon,… Continue Reading …
To —
I do not ask if an illustrious name
Has shed upon thy birth its purple glow;
Nor do I ask what titles thou canst claim, … Continue Reading …
To —
Give me but the energy,
That guides thy dauntless will;
Give me but thy ardent hope, … Continue Reading …
To —
This life is to thee like a region enchanted,
O’er which thy rich fancy its rose-color throws;
The hours as they pass thee with visions are haunted,… Continue Reading …
To —
In the noble army of Reform
Thou art a pioneer;
And bravely wields thy good right arm, … Continue Reading …
To —
The brilliant west is glowing,
With sunset’s farewell ray;
The silver waves are flowing, … Continue Reading …
To —
Upon the sea of life,
Outspread thy spirit’s sails;—
Go in thy genius forth, and breast … Continue Reading …
To —
Thou dost not dwell in this dark world of ours,
Where sorrow, want, and crime, and misery reign;
Where famine stalks; where war’s dread tempest lowers;… Continue Reading …
To —
They may talk of the eloquence famous in story;
Of the names that through ages continue to shine;
There never has fallen more true oratory … Continue Reading …
To — —
Like the river’s current rapid;
Like the lightning’s flash intense;
Was the rushing, fiery torrent… Continue Reading …
To —, In Obscurity
In full-orbed splendor now the queen of Night,
Among the stars walks in her pride of place,
And now again we miss that flood of light… Continue Reading …
To ****, With Flowers
Go, ye sweet messengers,
To that dim-lighted room,
Where lettered wisdom from the walls … Continue Reading …
To A Child
I love to look on that eye of blue,
For tears have not yet worn a channel through;
And the few bright summers since thy birth, … Continue Reading …
To A Friend, On Being Asked For Some Verses
I thought the Soul of Song had made
This heart of mine her sepulchre;
For all her golden dreams had fled, … Continue Reading …
To A Poet, Painter, And Musician
Three Muses one day
Had a serious fray,
Concerning a youth who had wandered astray, … Continue Reading …
To A Poet’s Wife
She, who in lonely pride may wear
The laurel on her brow,
And sit beneath its chilling shade, … Continue Reading …
To A Silent Poet
I see the sons of Genius rise,
The nobles of our land;
And foremost in the gathering ranks … Continue Reading …
To An Astronomer
Upon the Professor we’ll waste not a glance,
Since he has no eyes for us poor terrestrials;
With his heart can we have any possible chance, … Continue Reading …
To Dr. —
I know those subtle elements
Thou dost administer,
Have power to stay the parting breath, … Continue Reading …
To Elizabeth B. Browning
I have not met thee in this outward world,
Bounded by time and space; but in that realm,
O’er which imagination holds her reign,… Continue Reading …
To Mrs. Kean
Of those fair characters the bards create,
Round which thy genius added charms has thrown,… Continue Reading …
To The Century Plant
Plant of a hundred years! destroying Time
Passes thy gentle race with hurrying tread,
Leaves their bright petals colorless and dim, … Continue Reading …
To The Memory Of Channing
Those spirits God ordained,
To stand the watchmen on the outer wall,
Upon whose souls the beams of truth first fall; … Continue Reading …
To The Sun
Thou glorious lamp of Space! Thou that dost flood
The void of heaven with brightness! in thy glow
Unnumbered worlds, age after age, have trod… Continue Reading …
To The Venerable General Gaines
Though Time has silvered o’er thy honored head,
And left some traces on thy gallant form,
Upon thy soul no hoar-frost has he shed,… Continue Reading …
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Webster
The mould upon thy memory!—No,
Not while one note is rung,
Of those divine, immortal songs… Continue Reading …
Written At Tivoli Falls
Sweet Tivoli! upon thy grassy side,
Whene’er I linger through the summer day,
And the soft music of thy silvery tide … Continue Reading …
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