Washington Allston

  •       ALL hail; thou noble land,
            Our Fathers’ native soil!
          O, stretch thy mighty hand,
            Gigantic grown by toil,
    O’er the vast Atlantic wave to our shore!
          For thou with magic might
          Canst reach to where the light...

  • Ah, then how sweetly closed those crowded days!
    The minutes parting one by one, like rays
      That fade upon a summer’s eve.
    But O, what charm or magic numbers
    Can give me back the gentle slumbers
      Those weary, happy days did leave?
    When by my bed I...

  • “o pour upon my soul again
        That sad, unearthly strain,
    That seems from other worlds to plain;
    Thus falling, falling from afar,
    As if some melancholy star
    Had mingled with her light her sighs,
        And dropped them from the skies!

    “No,—...

  •     all hail! thou noble land,
          Our Fathers’ native soil!
        Oh, stretch thy mighty hand,
          Gigantic grown by toil,
    O’er the vast Atlantic wave to our shore!
        For thou with magic might
        Canst reach to where the light
        Of...