Poems

Fill the Bumper Fair Fill the bumper fair! Every drop we sprinkle O’er the brow of Care Smooths away a wrinkle. Wit’s electric flame Ne’er so […]

Fly Not Yet Fly not yet, ’tis just the hour, When pleasure, like the midnight flower That scorns the eye of vulgar light, Begins to bloom […]

Forget Not the Field Forget not the field where they perish’d, The truest, the last of the brave, All gone — and the bright hope we […]

From This Hour the Pledge is Given From this hour the pledge is given, From this hour my soul is thine: Come what will, from earth […]

Go Where Glory Waits Thee Go where glory waits thee, But while fame elates thee, Oh! still remember me. When the praise thou meetest To thine […]

Hark! The Vesper Hymn is Stealing HARK! the vesper hymn is stealing O’er the waters soft and clear; Nearer yet and nearer pealing, And now bursts […]

Has Sorrow Thy Young Days Shaded Has sorrow thy young days shaded, As clouds o’er the morning fleet? Too fast have those young days faded That, […]

How Dear to Me the Hour How dear to me the hour when daylight dies, And sunbeams melt along the silent sea, For then sweet dreams […]

How Oft Has the Benshee Cried How oft has the Benshee cried, How oft has death untied Bright links that Glory wove, Sweet bonds entwined by […]

I Saw Thy Form in Youthful Prime I saw thy form in youthful prime, Nor thought that pale decay Would steal before the steps of Time, […]