Poems by Isaac McLellan

Poems by Isaac McLellan

Polar Bear, by Isaac McLellan

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

The Little Chickadee Warbler of the Winter Woods, by Isaac McLellan

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

Lion of South Africa, by Isaac McLellan

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

The Goldfish and the Silverfish, by Isaac McLellan

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

The Gorilla, by Isaac McLellan

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

Grizzly-Bear Hunting, by Isaac McLellan

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

The Haunted Wood, by Isaac McLellan

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

The Hillside Rivulet, by Isaac McLellan

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

Hunting the Hippopotamus, by Isaac McLellan

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

The Kingfish, by Isaac McLellan

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

Lake Tahoe, Colorado, by Isaac McLellan

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

The Last Night of the Year, by Isaac McLellan

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

The Lion, by Isaac McLellan

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

The Antiquary's Armory, by Isaac McLellan

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

African Scenery, Birds, and Fruits, by Isaac McLellan

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