Poems, by the Author of Vriel (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 edition. Excerpt: ... TO THE SAME. What shall I give thee for thy love 1 what treasure For thine 1--0 I will shew thee what love is. I cannot love thee to thy merit's measure; But love is love like this. THE MARTYR.-" pertinaciam certe et inflexibilem obstinationem '--Plin. Epist. x. 97. i. "Then, to-morrow to the lions: --let the red arena shake With the fiercer roar of thousands, who the Christian's soul would break, With the yell of hate and triumph, that shall rend the sky for him Who shall gaze on things of glory as the things of earth grow dim. So, to-morrow, in the noon-glare, I fall that I may rise; And to-morrow eve the starlight and the dews of Paradise. Fare thee well, then, thee, the fairest of our fair Ionian clime, Of the flowers that bloom for Heaven in the tearful vale of Time. We have liv'd our hour of love-light: thou hast bless'd me, and I go: Let us think that He shall lead us where the living waters flow. Live--it is thy lot--live, yielding the pure incense of thy life. I to Christ my God go glorious, as a warrior through the strife." II. "I can go with thee, my warrior: --that I can and that I shall. Yet, oh yet, would I thus hold thee, ere by such a fate we fall. I would think that yet for us, yes, for us, might life rise bright, In a realm beyond the Roman, in a land of purer light. Oh our life was sweet and holy, when our spirits free could rove In the lovely lore of Hellas, in the lovelier lore of love. Oh the flowery world is fairer, and the starry sky is higher, Than the gloom and glow of deadly faith, that makes of earth a pyre." III. "Would, O God of my salvation, would that myriad lives were mine Sj might I to Thee outpour them, as didst Thou for sinners Thine Thou, the Victim--Thou, the Victor, Thou hast bid me rise and...