Poems by Speranza

"I hate thee, as I hate God's foe. Forth from my castle halls this night: I could not breathe the air, if so Thy poison breath were here to blight."

Ho! Spaniards! rise for Liberty--your country on ye calls, To fight to-day, in proud array, before Granáda's walls; A proud array is here to-day, full fifty thousand strong, Of...

With faith like the Hebrew's we'll stem the Red Sea-- God! smite down the Pharaohs--our trust is in Thee; Be it blood of the tyrant or blood of the slave, We'll cross it to Free...

Yet my touch is cold and chill, Horror through thy heart would thrill, Pale dismay thy bosom fill, Could'st thou see me face to face. Never one of human race Could that dreadful...

Oh! childhood's truth, with its words of sooth, And its lips as pure as gold, Like a bird it sung, and its untaught tongue Was wise as the prophets of old.

"Woman's soothing grief to lighten hath a mystic healing power, And their sympathy can brighten man's most dark and destined hour. Let the holy words be spoken that bind soul to...

It was but for a moment's pause--the next their daggers gleam, And she falls, the young and lovely, by Mondego's fated stream; Like red rain on the young flowers, pours forth li...

At the breath of its rider the green earth is blasted, And childhood's frail form droops down pallid, and wasted; The soft sunny hair falleth dank on the arm Of the mother, whos...

THEKLA: A SWEDISH SAGA-- PART I.--THE TEMPTATION, 148 " II.--THE SIN, 150 " III.--THE BRIDAL, 153 " IV.--THE PUNISHMENT, 154 " V.--THE EXPIATION, 160 " VI.--GOD'S JUSTICE, 162 "...

"I see their Banner in the red dawn flashing-- Haughty is the legend, plain to all men's sight, Traced in their heart's blood, which the breeze upcatching, Flings out in flame-w...