Love Poems – Page 2455

Alnwick Castle

Home of the Percys’ high-born race,
Home of their beautiful and brave,
Alike their birth and burial-place, …

Fitz-Greene Halleck English
Burns

Wild rose of Alloway! my thanks;
Thou ’mindst me of that autumn noon
When first we met upon “the banks …

Fitz-Greene Halleck English
Red Jacket

Cooper, whose name is with his country’s woven,
First in her files, her PIONEER of mind—
A wanderer now in other climes, has proven …

Fitz-Greene Halleck English
From "The Culprit Fay"

The fay’s SENTENCE
THE MONARCH sat on his judgment-seat
On his brow the crown imperial shone, …

Joseph Rodman Drake English
The American Flag

When freedom from her mountain height
Unfurled her standard to the air,
She tore the azure robe of night, …

Joseph Rodman Drake English
The National Paintings

Awake, ye forms of verse divine!
Painting! descend on canvas wing,—
And hover o’er my head, Design! …

Joseph Rodman Drake English
The Man Who Frets at Worldly Strife

The man who frets at worldly strife
Grows sallow, sour, and thin;
Give us the lad whose happy life …

Joseph Rodman Drake English
Ode to Fortune

Fair lady with the bandaged eye!
I ’ll pardon all thy scurvy tricks,
So thou wilt cut me, and deny …

Halleck and Drake English
The Indian's Welcome to the Pilgrim Fathers

Above them spread a stranger sky;
Around, the sterile plain;
The rock-bound coast rose frowning nigh; …

Lydia Huntley Sigourney English
The Return of Napoleon from St - Helena by Lydia Huntley Sigourney

Ho! city of the gay!
Paris! what festal rite
Doth call thy thronging million forth, …

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