William Gilmore Simms Bright Poems
- 1. The Bard
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. The Lost Pleiad
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. Ode--shell The Old City! Shell!
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Shell the old city I shell!
Ye myrmidons of Hell;
Ye serve your master well,
... - 4. Morris Island
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. The Angel Of The Church
I.
Aye, strike with sacrilegious aim
The temple of the living God;
Hurl iron bolt and seething flame
... - 6. Blessings On Children
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;
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