The Backwoodsman: A Poem |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
amid appear'd arms babes BACKWOODSMAN band barque BASIL beguil'd betray'd bide bless bliss bloody bloom bosom brave breast bright brow caitiff calm charm cheat Cherub Christian clime combin'd dark dastard dear deep distant drear e'en e'er earth ev'n fair fame fate fear foes forest forgot friends gliding glorious grave groans half hand happy haunts hear heart Heav'n honest hour howling Hymen Indian join'd land light live lofty lone look'd lov'd lyre mind mother Earth Muse native ne'er never night o'er pale Paulding perchance pride prowling race reach'd roam round rude savage scalping scene seem'd shade shame side silent skies slave smile sooth soul spirit spleen strife sweet tear tell thee thou toil train turn'd Twas twill vengeance wake wandering warriors wave wend wheresoe'er whip-poor-will white-man wild wood woodland worthless wretched
Popular passages
Page 67 - on the smooth white sand, Or hurl'd the skipping-stone with playful hand, While playmate dog plung'd in the clear blue wave, And swam, in vain, the sinking prize to save. Where now are seen along the river side, Young busy towns, in buxom painted pride, And fleets of gliding boats with riches crown'd, To distant Orleans or St. Louis bound,
Page 3 - His object was to indicate to the youthful writers of his native country, the rich poetic resources with which it abounds, as well as to call their attention home, for the means of attaining to novelty of subject, if not to originality in style or sentiment. The story
Page 38 - eye; The little trusty watchman of pale night, The firefly, trimm'd anew his lamp so bright, And took his merry airy circuit round The sparkling meadow's green and fragrant bound, Where blossom'd clover, bath'd in balmy dew, In fair luxuriance, sweetly blushing grew.
Page 67 - wave, And swam, in vain, the sinking prize to save. Where now are seen along the river side, Young busy towns, in buxom painted pride, And fleets of gliding boats with riches crown'd, To distant Orleans or St. Louis bound,
Page 48 - house, where all the human race Had pil'd their bones in one wide resting place; Sadly he turn'd from such a sight of wo, And sadly sought the lifeless world below.
Page 198 - Be thine, to live, and never know " Sweet Sympathy in joy or wo, " To see Time rob thee, one by one, " Of every charm thou e'er hast known, " To see the moth that round thee came, " Flit to some newer, brighter flame,
Page 177 - The race of man live happy, great and free. Yes! lone and spotless virgin of the west, No tyrant pillows on thy swelling breast, Thou bow'st before no despot's guilty throne, But bend'st the knee to
Page 56 - Yes! the bright day is dawning, when the West No more shall crouch before old Europe's crest, When men who claim thy birthright, Liberty, Shall burst their leading-strings and dare be free, Nor while they boast thy blessings, trembling stand, Like dastard slaves before her, cap in hand, Cherish her old absurdities as new, And all her cast-off follies here renew;