JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE. 1795-1820. When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, Flag of the free heart's hope and home! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet! Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And the cold marble leapt to life a god. 1791-1868. The Belvedere Apollo. Too fair to worship, too divine to love. O'MEARA. - BARRETT. - SPRAGUE. 499 B. E. O'MEARA. 1778-1836. March to the battle-field, The foe is now before us; Each heart is Freedom's shield, And heaven is shining o'er us. March to the Battle-Field. EATON S. BARRETT. 1785-1820. Not she with trait'rous kiss her Saviour stung, Woman. (Ed. 1822.) Part i. CHARLES SPRAGUE. 1791-1874. Lo, where the stage, the poor, degraded stage, Curiosity. Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends, Ibid. Behold! in Liberty's unclouded blaze Centennial Ode. Stanza 22. Yes, social friend, I love thee well, To my Cigar. FITZ-GREENE HALLECK. 1790-1867. Strike - for your altars and your fires; Strike-for the green graves of your sires; God, and your native land! Come to the bridal chamber, Death! Come to the mother's, when she feels, For the first time, her first-born's breath; Come when the blessed seals Marco Bozzaris. That close the pestilence are broke, With banquet song, and dance, and wine; The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier, And all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony are thine. Ibid. One of the few, the immortal names, Such graves as his are pilgrim shrines, The Delphian vales, the Palestines, Ibid. Burns. HALLECK. —LOCKHART.— PHILLIPS. 501 Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days; None knew thee but to love thee,1 Nor named thee but to praise. On the Death of Joseph Rodman Drake. There is an evening twilight of the heart, When its wild passion-waves are lulled to rest. Twilight. They love their land, because it is their own, Would shake hands with a king upon his throne, This bank-note world. Lord Stafford mines for coal and salt, The Duke of Norfolk deals in malt, The Douglas in red herrings. Connecticut. Alnwick Castle. Ibid. JOHN G. LOCKHART. 1794-1854. Rise up, rise up, Xarifa! lay your golden cushion down; Rise up, come to the window, and gaze with all the town. The Bridal of Andalla. CHARLES PHILLIPS. 1789-1859. Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne a sceptred hermit, wrapped in the solitude of his own originality. The Character of Napoleon. 1 Compare Rogers, Jacqueline. Page 401. JOHN KEATS.1 1795-1821. Its loveliness increases; it will never A thing of beauty is a joy forever; Pass into nothingness. Endymion. Line 1. Philosophy will clip an angel's wings. Lamia. Part ii. Music's golden tongue Flattered to tears this aged man and poor. The Eve of St. Agnes. Stanza 3. Asleep in lap of legends old. Stanza 15. Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose, Stanza 16. A poor, weak, palsy-stricken, churchyard thing. Stanza 18. As though a rose should shut, and be a bud again. Stanza 27. And lucent sirups, tinct with cinnamon. Stanza 30. That large utterance of the early gods! Hyperion. Book i. Those green-robed senators of mighty woods, O for a beaker full of the warm South, Ibid. Ode to a Nightingale. Charmed magic casements, opening on the foam Ibid. 1 He asked to have this epitaph inscribed upon his gravestone:Here lies one whose name was writ in water. Lowell's Life of Keats. |