William Gilmore Simms Bright Poems

  • 1.
    Where dwells the spirit of the Bard--what sky
    Persuades his daring wing,--
    Folded in soft carnation, or in snow
    Still sleeping, far o'er summits of the cloud,
    ...
  • 2.
    NOT in the sky,
    Where it was seen
    So long in eminence of light serene,รข??
    Nor on the white tops of the glistering wave,
    ...
  • 3.
    I.
    Shell the old city I shell!
    Ye myrmidons of Hell;
    Ye serve your master well,
    ...
  • 4.
    Oh! from the deeds well done, the blood well shed
    In a good cause springs up to crown the land
    With ever-during verdure, memory fed,
    Wherever freedom rears one fearless band,
    ...
  • 5.
    I.
    Aye, strike with sacrilegious aim
    The temple of the living God;
    Hurl iron bolt and seething flame
    ...
  • 6.
    Blessings on the blessing children, sweetest gifts of Heaven to earth,
    Filling all the heart with gladness, filling all the house with mirth;
    Bringing with them native sweetness, pictures of the primal bloom,
    Which the bliss for ever gladdens, of the region whence they come;
    ...
Total 6 Bright Poems by William Gilmore Simms

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