Category: Poetry
TO A RAPIDLY DISAPPEARING CLASS, THE PIONEER PROSPECTORS, WHOSE BRAVERY, INTELLIGENCE AND INDUSTRY BLAZED THE TRAILS IN THE WESTERN WILDERNESS FOR ADVANCING CIVILIZATION, AND MADE POSSIBLE THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE GREAT WEST, THIS VOLUME IS VERY RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED
Next morning, ere the twinkling stars had set, While officers and men were sleeping yet, A courier rode up to my command, And placed a cipher message in my hand; Then spurring w...
4. Part 4The senior of the rescued men appeared In age to crowd the three-score years and ten; Of stalwart form, with whitened hair and beard, The peer of multitudes of younger men, In m...
3. Part 3At the conclusion of his tale The wind had risen to a gale, And mourned as though in sympathy With human woe and misery. Or as the winds, for some offence To man, or his creatio...
2. Part 2As ample wreaths of curling smoke From his time-honored meerschaum broke, A kindly-faced, gray-bearded man Rose up and sadly thus began,-- "You ask a tale,--well, I'll express T...
6. Part 6Unseen, unhindered, unpursued, I soon was in the solitude, Contending with impediments, Which every wilderness presents. Primeval forests, through which poured Rivers unknown to...
1. Part 1TO A RAPIDLY DISAPPEARING CLASS, THE PIONEER PROSPECTORS, WHOSE BRAVERY, INTELLIGENCE AND INDUSTRY BLAZED THE TRAILS IN THE WESTERN WILDERNESS FOR ADVANCING CIVILIZATION, AND MA...
7. Part 7That faith is true that buoys the sinking breast, When in the throes of some great agony, That comforts the afflicted and distressed, And reconciles the trembling soul to die.