Poems by Joseph Rodman Drake

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American Literature – American Poetry – Joseph Rodman Drake – Poems by Joseph Rodman Drake
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Bronx
I sat me down upon a green bank-side,
Skirting the smooth edge of a gentle river,
Whose waters seemed unwillingly to glide, … Continue Reading …

Fragment
Tuscara! thou art lovely now,
Thy woods, that frown’d in sullen strength
Like plumage on a giant’s brow, … Continue Reading …

Hope
See through yon cloud that rolls in wrath,
One little star benignant peep,
To light along their trackless path … Continue Reading …

Leon (extract)
It is a summer evening, calm and fair,
A warm, yet freshening glow is in the air;
Along its bank, the cool stream wanders slow, … Continue Reading …

Lines
Day gradual fades, in evening gray,
Its last faint beam hath fled,
And sinks the sun’s declining ray … Continue Reading …

Lines on leaving New Rochelle
Whene’er thy wandering footstep bends
Its pathway to the Hermit tree,
Among its cordial band of friends, … Continue Reading …

Lines to a Lady
Yes! heaven protect thee, thou gem of the ocean;
Dear land of my sires, though distant thy shores;
Ere my heart cease to love thee, its latest emotion, … Continue Reading …

Lines written in a Lady’s Album
Grant me, I cried, some spell of art,
To turn with all a lover’s care,
That spotless page, my Eva’s heart, … Continue Reading …

Niagara
Roar, raging torrent! and thou, mighty river,
Pour thy white foam on the valley below;
Frown, ye dark mountains! and shadow for ever … Continue Reading …

Song
Oh! go to sleep, my baby dear,
And I will hold thee on my knee;
Thy mother’s in her winding sheet, … Continue Reading …

Song
Oh the tear is in my eye, and my heart it is breaking,
Thou hast fled from me, Connor, and left me forsaken;
Bright and warm was our morning, but soon has it faded, … Continue Reading …

Song
’Tis not the beam of her bright blue eye,
Nor the smile of her lip of rosy dye,
Nor the dark brown wreaths of her glossy hair, … Continue Reading …

The American Flag
When Freedom from her mountain height
Unfurled her standard to the air,
She tore the azure robe of night, … Continue Reading …

The Culprit Fay
’Tis the middle watch of a summer’s night—
The earth is dark, but the heavens are bright;
Nought is seen in the vault on high … Continue Reading …

To —
When that eye of light shall in darkness fall,
And thy bosom be shrouded in death’s cold pall,
When the bloom of that rich red lip shall fade, … Continue Reading …

To a Friend
   Yes, faint was my applause and cold my praise,
   Though soul was glowing in each polished line;
   But nobler subjects claim the poet’s lays, … Continue Reading …

To a Lady with a Violet
Though fate upon this faded flower
His withering hand has laid,
Its odour’d breath defies his power, … Continue Reading …

To Eva
A beam upon the myrtle fell
From dewy evening’s purest sky,
’Twas like the glance I love so well, … Continue Reading …

To Sarah
One happy year has fled, Sall,
Since you were all my own,
The leaves have felt the autumn blight, … Continue Reading …

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American Literature – American Poetry – Joseph Rodman Drake – Poems by Joseph Rodman Drake

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