Category: Poetry
And 'mid the awful stillness Of their grave, The forest oaks have flourished-- And the breath Of years hath swept their races, Wave on wave, As ages fainted On the shores of death. The tumbling cliff perchance Hath thundered deep, Like a rough note Of music in the song Of cent...
And 'mid the awful stillness Of their grave, The forest oaks have flourished-- And the breath Of years hath swept their races, Wave on wave, As ages fainted On the shores of dea...
4. Chapter 4On a tall cliff that overhung the deep, A maniac stood. He heeded not the sweep Of the swift gale that lashed the troubled main, And spread with showery foam the watery plain. H...
2. Chapter 2[Footnote B: The loss of the United States Sloop-of-War Hornet, in the Gulf of Mexico, 1829, suggested this passage. She was supposed to have gone down in a hurricane, but as no...
3. Chapter 3Dim shadows these that come at Fancy's call-- Yet deeper scenes before the Patriot rise, As fate's stern prophet lifts the fearful pall, And shows the future to his straining ey...
5. Chapter 5"And thus the sunny day went by, And night came brooding o'er the seas; A thick cloud swathed the distant sky, And hollow murmurs filled the breeze. The white gull screaming, le...