Poems

The Battle of Life Never give up, though life be a battle Wherein true men may fail, and true causes be sold; Yet, on the whole, […]

The Cloud One summer morn, out of the sea-waves wild, A speck-like Cloud, the season’s fated child, Came softly floating up the boundless sky, And o’er […]

The Creek of the Four Graves I I verse a Settler’s tale of olden times One told me by our sage friend, Egremont; Who then went […]

The Death of Shelley Fit winding-sheet for thee Was the upheaving eternal sea, Fit dirge the tempest’s slave-alarming roll For yokeless as the waves alway Thy […]

The Death of Sisera When Deborah the prophetess ruled in God’s land, And Sisera died under Jael’s fierce hand, His mother looked forth at the close […]

The Dream by the Fountain Thought-weary and sad, I reclined by a fountain At the head of a white-cedar-shaded ravine, And the breeze that fell over […]

The Drowned Alive I was one so deeply drowned, That when the drag my body found, Twas void of motion, void of breath, And to sensation […]

The Emigrant’s Vision As his bark dashed away on the night-shrouded deep, And out towards the South he was gazing, First there passed o’er his spirit […]

The End of the Book My work is finished that has been to me My only solace for this many a day. But whether it in […]

The Forgotten He shone in the senate, the camp, and the grove, The mirror of manhood, the darling of love. He fought for his country, the […]