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Identifier: balladsoflife01ward (find matches)
Title: Ballads of life
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Ward, J. H. (from old catalog) Hardt, Thomas. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Salt Lake City, Utah, J. H. Parry & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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icy polar hall Earth her wintry mantle draw. i82 BALLADS OF LIFE. Joyfully they saw the days Ever short and shorter grow — Thanks for lengthened nights of joyEver fondly they bestow. Hero Aiewed the lovely oceanThen she spake with sweet emotion, Neptune, ruler of the sea,Lovely god, canst thou deceive?No! the wretch Ill neer believe; Thou wert ever true to me —, Oft may mankind prove untrue; Cruel is a fathers heart.Ever kind and gentle thou; Hast thou felt the lovers smart? On this barren, storm-beat rock,I would ever lonely walk, And in endless sorrow pine.But thou bringSt upon thy waveWithout boat or bridge, the brave To my arms, across the brine.Full of horrors are thy depths, Terrible thy billowy flood.But when love implores thy grace, Leanders courage thee subdued. Night has come, the billows growDreary, dark; her torchs glow Holds she as a beacon ray.Hoping that midst clouds and windHe shall see the beacon kind. She had placed to light the way,Cheery as the evening star. I
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iiiiip«iiii#« ■OTHER POEMS. iSs Dark the sea; the storm gusts whtrl,Deepest midnight shades unfurl; Stars and moon extinguished arc. Night, her mantle stretches far,Furious the torrents pour From the cavernous gloomy clouds.Lightnings flash amidst the gloom,Loud is heard the thunder boom, And the monster tempest crowdsDown this dark tempestuous gulf. Mighty chasms foam and hiss,iBillows rise like mountains high, Then they sink to vast abyss. Kero now to Neptune bows,Iervently repeats her vows. Proffers all that she can giveTo the storm-god grim, severe —Sacrifices rich and dear, If Leander only live.Angry, he refuses all; Winds extinguish torch, no traceGuides the swimmer, dark the pall, Brooding oer the landing place. Faithless Hellesponts still formWas the lull before the storm; Thou wast like a mirror bright,Then the lover thee believed.By thy falseness was deceived, In the midst the stormy nightThrew its veil across his path; Vain he stems the midway stream,Storms upon him w

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