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  • Uranne
    In a far off hamlet near the sea
    Where billows oft, in days of storm, and
    189 lines
  • The Grafted Bud
    Life's stormy surge had scarcely touched
    Her blooming, beauteous brow,
    20 lines
  • The Nativity
    The gloom of night had overspread the land,
    Swaying its dread sceptre o'er every man;
    20 lines
  • The Crucifixion
    Why did the sun his beams conceal
    As if unwilling to reveal
    30 lines
  • Passing Of The Old Year
    Ah! the year is slowly dying,
    And the wind in tree-top sighing,
    48 lines
  • The Pen
    Mightier than the sword thou art,
    Thou can'st pierce like venomed dart,
    32 lines
  • Sonnet To My First Born
    Oh! waves in the sunlight gleaming,
    Oh! billows with ceaseless roar,
    32 lines
  • The Saxon Legend Of Language
    The earth was young, the world was fair,
    And balmy breezes filled the air,
    50 lines
  • The Christ Child
    On a starry, wintry night,
    Frosty and cold was the air,
    32 lines
  • The Exile's Reverie
    'Twas sunset's hour, the glorious day
    Had in its beauty passed away;
    50 lines
  • The Valentine
    Lady with thine eyes of beauty
    Rivaling cerulean flowers,
    32 lines
  • The Coming Woman
    Just look, 'tis a quarter past six, love--
    And not even the fires are caught;
    32 lines
  • The Cherokee
    'Twas a cloudless morn and the sun shone bright,
    And dewdrops sparkled clear;
    52 lines
  • The Past
    The Past it is fraught with many a feeling
    Of pleasure, of sadness, of joy, and of pain;
    20 lines
  • Song To Erin
    Oh! Erin my country, my ancestor's home!
    Impelled by my wants, I, from thee, had to roam;
    23 lines
  • Rally Song
    Come, let us join this festal lay--
    Hurra, Hurra,
    30 lines
  • The Snow Storm
    Gentle as a maiden's dream,
    Softly as the gliding stream,
    21 lines
  • Sunset
    All hail! thou gorgeous sunset,
    With thy gold and purple clouds,
    24 lines
  • To The Mock-Bird
    Bird of the woodland, sing me a song,
    Fain would I list to thee, all the day long.
    16 lines
  • To The Eagle
    Fain would I rival thee
    Monarch of birds
    20 lines
  • Tribute To A Lost Steamer
    O! sing ye a dirge for the loved and the lost,
    That have found them a home 'neath the coral reefs
    23 lines
  • To Rev. Thaddeus Saltus
    Sleep, Christian warrior, sleep,
    Life's fitful dream is o'er,
    24 lines
  • Tribute To Capt. F. W. Dawson
    Carolina mourns to-day. For he, the gifted
    Son of her adoption, is no more. The voice
    24 lines
  • To An Infant
    Just as the twilight's holy hour
    In quietude so deep,
    16 lines
  • To My Mother
    I took up the burden of life anew
    When she, the pure-hearted, died;
    40 lines
  • Rev. Samuel Weston
    Oh! surely for thee were the gates ajar,
    As thy chariot onward sped,
    21 lines
  • Twilight Musings
    I'm sitting by the hearthstone now,
    And my heart is lone and drear;
    32 lines
  • To A Loved One
    I'll think of thee, mine own, dear one
    As morn's first blushing ray
    20 lines
  • Highland Mary
    Will you leave the hills of Scotland?
    Your childhood's happy home,
    20 lines
  • Ode To Peace
    Come Peace, on snowy pinions,
    Come, nestle like a dove;
    33 lines
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