Nathan Covington Brooks

I lived from 1809-1898. I was from the United States, and am in the Americas category.

My poetry

• Death Of Samson

  Within Philistia's princely hall
  Is held a glorious festival,

  61 lines, 1 comment
• An Infant's Prayer

  The day is spent, on the calm evening hours,
  Like whispered prayer, come nature's sounds abroad,

  18 lines
• Shelley's Obsequies

  \Ibi tu calentem
  Debita sparges lacryma favillam

  44 lines
• The Fountain Revisited

  Let the classic pilgrim rove,
  By Egeria's fount to stand,

  36 lines
• The Infant St. John, The Baptist

  O sweeter than the breath of southern wind
  With all its perfumes is the whisper'd prayer

  20 lines
• Fall Of Superstition

  A Prize Poem
  

  74 lines
• The Mother To Her Dead Boy

  The flowers you reared repose in sleep
  With folded bells where the night-dews weep,

  48 lines
• To A Dove

  Mourning Amid The Ruins of An Ancient Church
  

  61 lines

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