Poems by Obadiah Cyrus Auringer

Poems by Obadiah Cyrus Auringer

Fading Days, by Obadiah Cyrus Auringer

Filled with a quiet sadness nigh to tears,
When tears come fresh from no ungentle spring,
Bes...

The First Phebe, by Obadiah Cyrus Auringer

Sweet latest herald of the spring,
Fresh from thy rest at nature's heart,
Where thou dost lin...

Glen Lake at Twilight, by Obadiah Cyrus Auringer

How still she lies!
A bride in all her wedding splendor dressed,
After the day's sweet tumult ...

God's Country, by Obadiah Cyrus Auringer

I Dost thou not know God's country, where it lies?
The land long dreamed of, more desired tha...

The Old Balsam, by Obadiah Cyrus Auringer

Year in, year out, unchanged thou standest there,
And broodest in a visionary wise;
Inscrut...

The Orchard, by Obadiah Cyrus Auringer

I The orchard stretches from the door,
To right and left and far along,
To where the gray fe...

To a Summer Evening Wind, by Obadiah Cyrus Auringer

Soft wind of summer's eve,
Fresh from blue fields and paradisial air,
Methinks in happy visio...

The Vale of Spirits, by Obadiah Cyrus Auringer

In deep green woods there lies a fairy glade
Shut in by tawny hemlocks wild and tall;
Its floo...

A Wind Song, by Obadiah Cyrus Auringer

Blow, freely blow,
Over the snow, O wind!
As merrily blow o'er the hills of snow
As if neve...