Poems

Address to a Maid If those twin gardens of delight, Thine eyes, were ever in my sight, I would no pink or roses seek, Save those […]

From: Tecumseh LEFROY. This region is as lavish of its flowers As heaven of its primrose blooms by night. This is the arum which within its […]

Love’s Empery O Love, if those clear faithful eyes of thine Were ever turned away there then should be No heav’nly looks to take the gloom […]

Tecumseh to General Harrison TECUMSEH …. Once this mighty continent was ours, And the Great Spirit made it for our use. He knew no boundaries, so […]

The Last Bison Eight years have fled since, in the wilderness, I drew the rein to rest my comrade there– My supple, clean-limbed pony of the […]

The Song Here me, ye smokeless skies and grass-green earth, Since by your sufferance still I breathe and live! Through you fond Nature gave me birth, […]

Freedom GOD SPEAKS: When you love someone, you love him as he is. I alone am perfect. It is probably for that reason That I know […]

Chinese Immigration You doubtless read the papers, And as men of observation, Of course you watch the progress Of Chinese immigration– For thousands of these pigtail […]

Two Years Ago The light of other days burns dim, And in the shade is cast, You’ll own I’m right, if you will just Look back […]

A True Account of the Birth and Conception… When Monmouth the chaste read those impudent lines Which ty’d her dear monkey so fast by the loins, […]