Poems by Isaac McLellan

Amid the vast, eternal ice,
The crystal plain, the drifting floe,
Dark chasm, awful precip...

The brown chickadee still chirps on the tree,
Though it yields scanty wealth of larvae and bee,...

Slow pass'd the sultry days in Afric wilds,
Slow wan'd the moonlit nights, slow flash'd the da...

By a little crystal brook
Winding thro' a woody nook,
Where the rippled current dashes
'Neath...

High beats the hunter's heart when all the night,
Hid in some copse at edge of wood,
He watch...

'Mid scenes magnificently grand
In forest-ground and mountain-land,
Savage and solitary lord
...

I ofttimes come to this lonely place,
And forget the stir of my restless race;
Forget the woe...

An Eden haunt, a charming fairy grot,
The angler's home in Nature's fairest spot!
Where peace...

'Twas a fair river, fring'd with drooping reeds
And grasses rank that belted in its marge
A st...

Off where the slender light-house lifts,
Like sheeted ghost, above the surge,
Casting its wa...

The day is done, the sunset fires grow pale
Behind the lone Sierras, but the light still glows...

Now the good old Year is dead and gone
To the grave of the Past, forever borne.
I heard last n...

In the Mahouna mountain, in the Haracta glen,
The summons of the Sheik is out--Come forth, ye...

WEAPONS OF WAR AND CHASE They hang on the carven oaken wall
Of picturesque, ancestral hall,
...

Enchanting scenes o'er Afric's mystic land
Since the creation's dawn have bloom'd and smil'd
In...