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# Hemans Miscellaneous Poetry 4/The Wreck

Located in The Literary Souvenir, 1826
Original source not identified, Taken from The League of the Alps, and Other Poems, 1826, Boston.
65
THE WRECK.
All night the booming minute-gun  Had peal'd along the deep, And mournfully the rising sun  Look'd o'er the tide-worn steep. A bark from India's coral strand,  Before the raging blast, Had vail'd her topsails to the sand,  And bow'd her noble mast.
The queenly ship!—brave hearts had striven,  And true ones died with her— We saw her mighty cable riven,  Like floating gossamer. We saw her proud flag struck that morn,  A star once o'er the seas— Her anchor gone, her deck uptorn,  And sadder things than these.
We saw her treasures cast away—  The rocks with pearls were sown, And strangely sad, the ruby's ray  Flash'd out o'er fretted stone. And gold was strewn the wet sands o'er,  Like ashes by a breeze— And gorgeous robes—but oh! that shore  Had sadder things than these!
We saw the strong man still and low,  A crush'd reed thrown aside— Yet by that rigid lip and brow,  Not without strife he died. And near him on the sea-weed lay—  Till then we had not wept, But well our gushing hearts might say,  That there a mother slept!
For her pale arms a babe had prest,  With such a wreathing grasp, Billows had dash'd o'er that fond breast,  Yet not undone the clasp. Her very tresses had been flung  To wrap the fair child's form, Where still their wet long streamers clung,  All tangled by the storm.
And beautiful 'midst that wild scene,  Gleam'd up the boy's dead face, Like Slumber's, trustingly serene,  In melancholy grace. Deep in her bosom lay his head,  With half-shut violet eye— He had known little of her dread,  Nought of her agony!
Oh! human Love, whose yearning heart,  Through all things vainly true, So stamps upon thy mortal part  Its passionate adieu— Surely thou hast another lot,  There is some home for thee, Where thou shalt rest, remembering not  The moaning of the sea!
# Hemans Miscellaneous Poetry 4/To the Poet Wordsworth

Reportedly in The Literary Magnet, 1826 as To the Author of The Excursion and the Lyrical Ballads. Later included in Records of Woman etc. (1828), simply as To Wordsworth.
Original source not identified, Taken from The League of the Alps, and Other Poems, 1826, Boston.
100
TO THE POET WORDSWORTH.
Thine is a strain to read amongst the hills, The old and full of voices—by the source Of some free stream, whose gladdening presence fills The solitude with sound—for in its course Even such is thy deep song, that seems a part Of those high scenes, a fountain from their heart.
Or its calm spirit fitly may be taken To the still breast, in some sweet garden-bowers, Where summer winds each tree's low tones awaken, And bud and bell with changes mark the hours. There let thy thoughts be with me, while the day Sinks with a golden and serene decay.
Or by some hearth where happy faces meet, When night hath hush'd the woods with all their birds, There, from some gentle voice, that lay were sweet As antique music, link'd with household words. While, in pleas'd murmurs, woman's lip might move, And the rais'd eye of childhood shine in love.
Or where the shadows of dark solemn yews Brood silently o'er some lone burial-ground, Thy verse hath power that brightly might diffuse A breath, a kindling, as of spring, around, From its own glow of hope and courage high, And steadfast faith's victorious constancy.
True bard and holy!—thou art e'en as one Who, by some secret gift of soul or eye, In every spot beneath the smiling sun, Sees where the springs of living waters lie— Unseen awhile they sleep—till, touch'd by thee, Bright, healthful waves flow forth, to each glad wanderer free!
# Hemans Miscellaneous Poetry 5

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Miscellaneous Poetry 5 1829
By
Felicia Hemans
Compiled by Peter J. Bolton
Contents
* The Prayer for Life
* The Welcome to Death
* To My Flowers
* Passing Away
# Hemans Miscellaneous Poetry 5/Passing Away

The Spirit and Manners of the Age
From The Religious Magazine 1829 pages 480-481
From The Spirit and Manners of the Age.
PASSING AWAY.
BY MRS. HEMANS.
"'Passing away' is written on the world, and all the world contains."
It is written on the rose,
 In its glory's full array;
Read what those buds disclose —
"Passing away."
It is written on the skies
 Of the soft blue summer day;
It is traced in sunset's dyes—
 "Passing away."
It is written on the trees
 As their young leaves glistening play;
And on brighter things than these—
 "Passing away."
It is written on the brow
 Where the spirit's ardent ray
Lives, burns, and triumphs now—
 "Passing away."
It is written on the heart—
 Alas! that there decay
Should claim from love a part!
 "Passing away."
Friends, friends! oh! shall we meet
 Where the spoiler finds no prey,
Where lovely things and sweet
 Pass not away?
Shall we know each other's eyes,
 With the thoughts that in them lay,
When they meet within the skies
 Which pass away?
Oh! if this may be so,
 Speed, speed their closing day!
How blest, from earth's vain show!
 To pass away!
# Hemans Miscellaneous Poetry 4/The King of Arragon's Lament for his Brother

Original source: The Monthly Magazine, Volume 6, 1828 (not at present accessible); Taken from The Museum of Foreign Literature and Science, 1828, Pages 475-476.
From the Monthly Magazine.
THE KING OF ARRAGON'S LAMENT FOR HIS BROTHER.*
"If I could see him, it were well with me!" Coleridge's Wallenstein.
There were lights and sounds of revelling in the vanquished city's halls,
As by night the feast of victory was held within its walls;
And the conquerors filled the wine-cup high, after years of bright blood shed;
But their Lord, the King of Arragon, 'midst the triumph, wailed the dead.
He looked down from the fortress won, on the tents and towers below,
The moon-lit sea, the torch-lit streets—and a gloom came o'er his brow:
The voice of thousands floated up, with the horn and cymbals' tone;
But his heart, 'midst that proud music, felt more utterly alone.
And he cried, "Thou art mine, fair city! thou city of the sea!
But oh! what portion of delight is mine at last in thee?
—I am lonely 'midst thy palaces, while the glad waves past them roll,
And the soft breath of thine orange-bowers is mournful to my soul.
"My brother! oh! my brother! thou art gone, the true and brave,
And the haughty joy of victory hath died upon thy grave:
There are many round my throne to stand, and to march where I lead on;
There was one to love me in the world—my brother! thou art gone!
"In the desert, in the battle, in the ocean tempest's wrath,
We stood together, side by side; one hope was ours—one path:
Thou hast wrapt me in thy soldier's cloak, thou hast fenced me with thy breast;
Thou hast watched beside my couch of pain– oh! bravest heart, and best!
"I see the festive lights around—o'er a dull sad world they shine;
I hear the voice of victory—my Pedro! where is thine?
The only voice in whose kind tone my spirit found reply!—
Oh! brother; I have bought too dear this hollow pageantry!
"I have hosts, and gallant fleets, to spread my glory and my sway,
And chiefs to lead them fearlessly—my friend hath passed away!
For the kindly look, the word of cheer, my heart may thirst in vain,
And the face that was as light to mine—it cannot come again!
"I have made thy blood, thy faithful blood, the offering for a crown;
With love, which earth bestows not twice, I have purchased cold renown:
How often will my weary heart 'midst the sounds of triumph die,
When I think of thee, my brother! thou flower of chivalry!
"I am lonely—I am lonely! this rest is ev’n as death!
Let me hear again the ringing spears, and the battle-trumpet's breath;
Let me see the fiery charger's foam, and the royal banner wave—
But where art thou, my brother?—where?—in thy low and early grave!"
And louder swelled the songs of joy through that victorious night,
And faster flowed the red wine forth, by the stars' and torches' light;
But low and deep, amidst the mirth, was heard the conqueror's moan—
"My brother! oh! my brother! best and bravest! thou art gone!"
F. H.
# Hemans Miscellaneous Poetry 4/The Lost Pleiad

Located in The New Monthly Magazine, 1823
Original source not identified, Taken from Galignano’s Magazine, December 1823, Page 272.
THE LOST PLEIAD.
Like the lost Pleiad seen no more below.—Lord Byron.
# Hemans Miscellaneous Poetry 4/The Songs of our Fathers

Located in The Monthly Magazine 1826
Original source not identified, Taken from The League of the Alps, and Other Poems, 1826, Boston.
120
THE SONGS OF OUR FATHERS.
————————————"Sing aloud Old songs, the precious music of the heart."  Wordsworth.
Sing them upon the sunny hills,  When days are long and bright, And the blue gleam of shining rills  Is loveliest to the sight. Sing them along the misty moor,  Where ancient hunters rov'd, And swell them through the torrent's roar—  The songs our fathers lov'd!
The songs their souls rejoic'd to hear  When harps were in the hall, And each proud note made lance and spear  Thrill on the banner'd wall:
The songs that through our valleys green,  Sent on from age to age, Like his own river's voice, have been  The peasant's heritage.
The reaper sings them when the vale  Is fill'd with plumy sheaves; The woodman, by the starlight pale  Cheer'd homeward through the leaves; And unto them the glancing oars  A joyous measure keep, Where the dark rocks that crest our shores  Dash back the foaming deep.
So let it be!—a light they shed  O'er each old fount and grove; A memory of the gentle dead,  A lingering spell of love: Murmuring the names of mighty men,  They bid our streams roll on, And link high thoughts to every glen  Where valiant deeds were done.
Teach them your children round the hearth,  When evening-fires burn clear, And in the fields of harvest mirth,  And on the hills of deer! So shall each unforgotten word,  When far those lov'd ones roam, Call back the hearts which once it stirr'd,  To childhood's holy home.
The green woods of their native land  Shall whisper in the strain, The voices of their household band  Shall sweetly speak again; The heathery heights in vision rise  Where, like the stag, they rov'd— Sing to your sons those melodies,  The songs your fathers lov'd!
# History of Iowa From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century/4/George W. Ruddick

​ GEORGE W. RUDDICK was born in Thompson, Sullivan County, New York, May 11, 1835. He worked on his father's farm until fourteen, when he spent two years at an academy in Kingsville, Ohio, supplementing this with a similar course of instruction at Monticello, New York. At eighteen he began the study of law graduating from the Albany Law School in 1856. He then came to Iowa, locating at Waverly which became his permanent home. In 1857 Mr. Ruddick was elected Prosecuting Attorney for Bremer County, holding the office until the adoption of the new Constitution. In 1859 he was elected Representative in the House of the Eighth General Assembly for the district composed of the counties of Chickasaw and Bremer, serving in the regular session of 1860 and the war session of 1861. He was elected county judge in 1862, serving two years; in 1867 he was elected circuit judge and two years later was chosen District Judge of the Twelfth District, serving from 1870 to 1892. At one time he received strong support for Judge of the Supreme Court, as he always ranked high as a jurist.
# History of Iowa From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century/4/Gideon S. Bailey

​ GIDEON S. BAILEY was born in the State of Kentucky in 1810 and came to the “Black Hawk Purchase” in 1837, locating on the west bank of the Des Moines River in Van Buren County. He was a physician but from boyhood had taken a deep interest in public affairs. When the Territory of Iowa was established in 1838, Dr. Bailey, then a young man of twenty-eight was chosen one of the members of the First Legislative Assembly. He was the author of the first school system established in the ​Territory. As chairman of the committee on schools he framed a bill, which became a law on the 24th of December, 1838, providing for public schools in each county free to all children between the ages of four and twenty-one. The bill also provided for the building of schoolhouses. Dr. Bailey was reëlected to the House of the Second Legislative Assembly and in 1840 was elected a member of the Council where he served two terms. In 1844 he was a member of the First Constitutional Convention. In 1845 he was appointed by the President United States Marshal for Iowa. In 1857 he was elected to the State Senate, serving in the Seventh and Eighth General Assemblies. This honored pioneer lawmaker, who helped to frame the first statutes and first Constitution, has long been the only survivor of the earliest legislators and has lived to witness the marvelous development of the educational system he helped to found in the First Territorial Legislature of Iowa. He was for forty years one of the trusted leaders of the Democratic party of the State.
# History of Iowa From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century/4/Gershom H. Hill

GERSHOM H. HILL
​ GERSHOM H. HILL was born at Garnavillo, Clayton County, Iowa, May 8, 1846. He went to Grinnell in 1800 and was employed on the farm of Hon. J. B. Grinnell, the founder of the town and college. One night in June, 1861, young Hill drove a wagon load of escaping slaves from Grinnell's house, which was a station on the “underground railroad,” to Marengo, on their way to Canada and freedom. He obtained his education in the public schools and in 1863 began school teaching in Marshall County. Soon after he enlisted in the Forty-sixth Iowa Regiment and served under Colonel David B. Henderson. In 1865 Mr. Hill entered Grinnell College, graduating in 1871. He then began the study of medicine at the State University, and later at Rush Medical College, where he graduated. In 1875 he was chosen a physician in the Hospital for Insane at Independence, and in 1881 he was promoted to superintendent and has continued in that position up to the present time. His management of that institution has been marked for peculiar ability in the administration of its affairs. He writes for several medical journals and is a member of the leading medical associations of the country. He is a lecturer on insanity at the Medical Department of the State University, and is often called upon as an expert in that malady.
# History of Iowa From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century/4/Gifford S. Robinson

[G. S. Robinson]
​ GIFFORD S. ROBINSON was born on the 28th of May, 1843, in Tazewell County, Illinois. He spent two years in the State Normal University, then took a two-year course in the Law Department of Washington University at St. Louis. He taught three years, a portion of the time in the Preparatory Department of the University. In August, 1862, he enlisted as a private in the One Hundred Fifteenth Illinois Volunteer Infantry and served in several of the great battles of the war, among which were Franklin and Chickamauga, where he was severely wounded and discharged from the service in consequence. He came to Iowa in 1870, locating at Storm Lake in Buena Vista County where he entered upon the practice of law. Mr. Robinson was soon after chosen mayor of the town and in 1875 was elected to the House of the Sixteenth General Assembly to represent the Seventy-first District, consisting of the counties of Buena Vista, Pocahontas, Palo Alto and Emmet. Becoming widely known as a legislator of unusual ability in the fall of 1881 he was nominated by the Republican Convention of the district composed of the counties of Woodbury, Plymouth, Sioux, Lyon, Cherokee and Buena Vista for State Senator. He was elected, serving six years with marked ability. In the spring of 1887 he was appointed Railroad Commissioner by Governor Larrabee, but declined. At the Republican State Convention in the summer of 1887, he was nominated for Judge of the Supreme Court and elected in October. He became Chief Justice in 1892 and at the close of his term was reëlected. He retired in January, 1900, removed to Sioux City and resumed the practice of law. But he was not long left in private life, for in February of the same year he was appointed by Governor Shaw member of the State Board of Control for six years. Judge Robinson was a lecturer before the Law Department of the State University, from 1890 to 1900. In June, 1895, the State University conferred upon him the degree of LL.D.
# History of Iowa From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century/4/Gilbert B. Pray

[G B Pray]
​ GILBERT B. PRAY was born at Michigan City, Indiana, April 27, 1847. His father located at Webster City, Iowa, in 1856, where the son received his education in the public schools. He enlisted in the Sixteenth Iowa Volunteer Infantry in 1864, participated in the Battle of Nashville and in General Sherman's campaigns. At the close of the war he entered the law office of Judge D. D. Chase, pursuing his studies three years and was admitted to the bar in 1868, then entering upon the practice of his profession. In 1882 he was elected Clerk of the Supreme Court, holding the position for twelve years by successive reëlections. He served many years on the Republican State Central Committee, and was twice chairman, conducting important political campaigns successfully. In 1886 in association with Ex-Governor Frank D. Jackson and Sidney A. Foster and other gentlemen, he assisted in organizing the Royal Mutual Union Life Insurance Company at Des Moines, of which he was chosen treasurer. In 1897 he was appointed by President McKinley Surveyor-General of Alaska, but declined. He was soon after appointed a special agent of the Indian Bureau and entered upon the duties of the office.
# History of Iowa From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century/4/George W. McCrary

GEORGE W. McCRARY
​ GEORGE W. McCRARY was born on the 29th of August, 1835, near Evansville, Indiana. In 1837 the family emigrated to the “Black Hawk Purchase,” locating in Van Buren County where the son grew to manhood on his father's farm. He received a liberal education and when nineteen began to study law with Rankin & Miller. When Miller became Judge of the United States Supreme Court, Mr. McCrary took his place in the law firm. In 1857, at the age of twenty-two, Mr. McCrary was elected a Representative in the House of the Seventh General Assembly, being its ​youngest member. In 1861 he was elected to the State Senate, serving four years. He was an able and influential legislator and in 1868 was elected Representative in Congress from the First District. He was repeatedly reëlected, serving eight years. As chairman of the committee on elections in the Forty-second Congress he insisted that every case should be decided upon the evidence, independent of partisan considerations. In the Forty-third Congress as chairman of the committee on railroads and canals he prepared an able report on the constitutional power of Congress to regulate commerce among the States which has since been regarded as high authority sustaining that power. At the time of the contest following the Presidential election of 1876, Mr. McCrary originated the famous Electoral Commission which decided that perilous controversy. He made an able argument before that tribunal in support of the legality of the election of Hayes and when the latter became President, George W. McCrary was chosen Secretary of War, entering the Cabinet March 12, 1877. After nearly three years' service in that position, lie was appointed United States Judge of the Eighth Circuit, embracing the States of Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas and Arkansas. Mr. McCrary resigned the war portfolio and entered upon the duties of his new position in January, 1880. He brought to the bench great legal attainments, his opinions were clear, sound and comprehensive and rank as high authority. He here met as an associate his first instructor in law and his life-long friend, Justice Samuel F. Miller. In 1884 Judge McCrary resigned the judgeship and accepted the position of general counsel for the Santa Fe Railroad system, making his home in Kansas City. As a law writer Judge McCrary ranked high; his “American Law of Elections,” is the standard work on that subject. He was a contributor to the North American Review and an able writer on Unitarianism, being a prominent member of that denomination. He died in the meridian of a noble life on the 23d of June, 1890, loved and honored by the best people of the Nation. His body was taken to his old home where it rests among his early friends at Keokuk. He was a noble man, an unsullied statesman and jurist and the highest type of an American citizen.
# History of Iowa From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century/4/Gilbert N. Haugen

​ GILBERT N. HAUGEN was born in Rock County, Wisconsin, April 21, 1859. He was reared on a farm and attended the common schools. In 1877 he came to Iowa and bought a farm in Worth County where he engaged in farming, grain buying, selling farm implements and hardware. In 1887 he was elected county treasurer, serving six years. In 1895 he was elected on the Republican ticket to represent the district composed of Worth and Winnebago counties in the House of the Twenty-fifth General Assembly. He was reëlected in 1897, serving two terms. In 1898 he was elected to Congress in the Fourth District and was reëlected in 1900 and again in 1902.
# History of Iowa From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century/4/Gilbert S. Gilbertson

​ GILBERT S. GILBERTSON is a native of Spring Grove, Minnesota, where he was born October 17, 1863. His education was completed at a business college in Janesville, Wisconsin, and in the spring of 1879 he removed to Worth County, Iowa. Aside from farming his first employment was bookkeeping in an implement house in Forest City. In 1889 he was elected clerk of the District Court of Winnebago County in which office he was continued by reëlections until 1896 when he resigned to become a member of the State Senate from the Forty-first District. Mr. Gilbertson became a financier early in the nineties organizing a number of banks and loan companies. He was also owner and publisher of the Winnebago Summit of Forest City. For ten years he was treasurer of the city and was seven years a member of the school board, and chairman of the Republican county committee. In 1900 he was nominated and elected State Treasurer and was reëlected in 1902.
# History of Iowa From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century/4/George W. Wakefield

​ GEORGE W. WAKEFIELD was born November 22, 1839, at De Witt, Illinois, and was educated in the common schools and at Lombard College. When the Civil War began he enlisted in Company F, Forty-first Illinois Volunteer Infantry, serving three years. After the close of the war Mr. Wakefield was engaged in farming and teaching. Finally studying law he was admitted to the bar in Illinois in 1868. The same year he came to Iowa, locating at Sioux City, where he entered upon the practice of his profession. In 1870 he was elected auditor of Woodbury County, which position he held four years. In 1885 he was elected judge of the Circuit Court of the Fourth Judicial District, serving two years, and in 1887 was chosen Judge of the District Court which position he has held up to the year 1903. Judge Wakefield has been one of the promoters of the Sioux City public library, serving as president of the board of trustees from 1892 to 1903.