Enthusiasm and Other Poems

Say did not man inherit, at his birth, A higher promise than the things of earth; Views more exalted than this world can give, And hopes that, deathless as the soul, outlive The...

I love thee not--yet when I raise To heaven my wondering eyes, I feel transported at the blaze Of beauty in the skies, And laud the power that, e'en to thee, Hath given such pom...

Ah! cold at my feet thou art sleeping, my boy, And I press on thy pale lips, in vain, the fond kiss; Earth opens her arms to receive thee, my joy! And all I have suffered was no...

I called to the wind--and a deep answer came In the rush of the tempest, the bursting of flame; And the spirit of life, as it breathed on the dead, Restored to each body the sou...

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I come o'er the hills of the frozen North, To call to the battle thy armies forth: I have swept the shores of the Baltic sea, And the billows have felt my mastery; They resisted...