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IT IS the morning star, arising… Out of yon hill’s dark bulk, as sh… Of its desire for day; then glides… And into the dim sky, there leavin… A whiteness in her wake that white…
TRUST and Treachery, Wisdom, F… Madness, Mirth and Melancholy, Love and Hatred, Thrift and Pill… All are housed in one small villag… And if such be Life’s mix’d being…
HER IMAGE haunts me. Lo! I mu… And straight it gathers from the g… My soul its mirror, which (as some… Impictures the cerulean smiles of… Through the hushed night retains i…
A settler in the olden times went… With four of his most bold and tru… Into the wilderness—went forth to… New streams and wider pastures for… Increasing flocks and herds. O’er…
That man is truly great, and he al… Who venerates, of present things o… The absolute only,—is the liege of… Save God and truth; who, awed not… And shadowy scheme of life, but an…
Behold an Indian isle, reposed Upon the deep’s enamoured breast… Even like a royal bride, be-rosed With passion in her happy rest. Or, when the morn is there disclos…
Spirit of Dreams! When many a toi… Shut paradise from exiled Adam’s… Two wedded powers were given thenc… On either hand, companions of his… This Hope was named in heaven, wh…
THE world’s heart is kindless and… As the head of the wandering Jew, And can never be won from the caus… Till man to Humanity’s true; There’s a path to redemption—but t…
I LOVE him so, That though his face I ne’er mi… In the assurance that he so loved… This heart of mine would glow With pulses sweeter than the sweet…
My country! I am sore at heart fo… An in mine ear, like a storm-heral… A voice against thee gathers warni… Lo, in what hands seem now thy des… Hands grasping all, through party…
O LIBERTY, yet build thee an a… And best abode in this most virgin… The Old World yet, power-trampled… Hath never known thee in thy perfe… Seeing all Rule which at a given…
Have the blasts of sorrow worn the… Have the rocks of danger torn thee… And thus shifted, wreck-like drift… Wouldst thou find a port in time? Vain the quest! That word sublime…
I verse a Settler’s tale of olden… One told me by our sage friend, E… Who then went forth, meetly equipt… Of his most trusty and adventrous… Into the wilderness - went forth t…
BY FAR Euphrates’ stream we sat… A weary band of herded slaves, And over Judah’s fallen estate We wept into the passing waves. On willow-boughs that o’er us bent
HIS lot how glorious whom the mus… Her first high-priest in this brig… Aglow with light from her aspiring… Catching the raptures of her Grec… Lifting these later days to height…