The Project Gutenberg eBook of Poems, by Thomas Hall Shastid.

BY

THOMAS HALL SHASTID,

AUTHOR OF

“Newspaper Ballads.”

————

PITTSFIELD, ILLINOIS:
THE AUTHOR.
1881.
{2}

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1881, by

THOMAS HALL SHASTID,

In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

—————
Printed and Bound by
H. E. Hanna, Book Printer,
Pittsfield, Illinois.

PREFACE.

To my many friends who have been so lenient in their criticisms of my former work, and to the several editors and literary men who have given me so much encouragement, I wish to return my sincere thanks.

All the request I have to make, is, that I hope my efforts this time will receive no more condemnation than my other.

I take pleasure in launching my little volume upon the wide sea of literature. The author is fourteen years of age, but many of the poems were written at a much earlier age.

POEMS.

CHRISTMAS NIGHT.

FALLING OF THE APPLE TREE.

THE ANGELS.

THE SPECTRES.

THE YEARS.

MY THOUGHTS.

BY THE FIRESIDE.

THE HAUNTED HOUSE.

THE KINGDOM OF THE DEAD.

THE WIND.

THE SONG OF THE WIND.

Over hill and over valley—
Over meadows rich and green,
Playing with the summer grasses—
Fairer sights were never seen.

Not a mortal ever saw me,
Though I see THEM ev’ry day;
Passing like a viewless spirit
On my happy singing way.

Often do I rise up skyward,
Chasing fast the cloudlets there,
And I drive them headlong onward
Till they all in fragments tear.{12}

Often on the field of battle,
’Mid the storm that works them woe,
Do I cheer ’mid cannon’s rattle,
Kissing both the friend and foe.

And the wounded, as he listens
To me as I whistle on,
Thinks of home and friends and parents
And of days that now have gone.

I often whistle through the woods
And toss the hunter’s hair.
He sits him down upon a log,
While I caress him there.

His brow with sweat is covered o’er—
He feels my cooling sway,
I toss about his silver locks;
That deck his head of gray.

But on I go until I find
The farmer in his field;
I whistle o’er his garnered store
The willing land doth yield.

He hails me as his merry friend,
And thus I am to him;
I never pass without I cheer
His features calm and grim.

I cheer the poet as he sings
Beside some flowing stream,
And looks upon the dim, dim past,
A vision or a dream.

II.

III.

IV.

VI.

I love the clime of Africa—
The dark man’s native home;
I love that central, torrid zone
Wherever I may roam.

I also love the Northern pole—
Auroras glisten there—
I love the regions still and cold,
The icebergs standing bare.

The water trickling down their sides—
I waft them towards the south;
The walrus suns him as we go,
And opes his giant mouth.{16}

I love to sway the trees in spring
When all in green they stand,—
In winter do I move their boughs
While roaming o’er the land.

Sometimes I frolic round about
Between the earth and sky;
And it is true where’er I go
A jolly one am I.

I love to whirl the storm around
And roar out ev’rywhere,
And superstitious people, too,
I often sadly scare.

I’ve seen fair Eden’s leafy trees—
I’ve seen the first of man,
And I shall see the last of him—
I saw how he began.

VII.

I saw the star of Bethlehem—
I heard the angels sing;
I saw the manger and the Christ—
The great and goodly king.

I saw the Cæsar in his Rome—
Who raised her towers on high;
She raised those towers aloof from earth,
She rose, and but to die.{17}

Then passing in the flight of years
I saw Napoleon’s day;
I saw the time when he did rise,
And when he fell away.

I saw the hero, Washington,
Who for his country fought.
“I’ll free my country from her bonds,”
That was his only thought.

I’ve known more things than history—
And if I brought to light,
These things ’twould make the stoutest heart
To start aback with fright.

I’ve witnessed murders never seen
By any human eye;
I’ve seen the very best of men
By violence to die.

I’ve touched the knife that did the deed;
I’ve kissed the brow in vain;
No sign of life upon the face,
So dark and black with pain.

VIII.

IX.

HASTINGS.

Oh, bright the day when England’s crown
Came forth to crown the king;
And in the minds of those around
It seemed no trifling thing.

“Give back the crown!” was William’s word,
“Or my good sword shall pay,
With heavy thrust and bleeding cut,
For this you’ve done to-day.”

For Edward’s will that crown had sent
To grace stern William’s head,
But Harold too had claimed the right,
And for that right he bled.{20}

Aye! bled, and died, and lost the crown
He’d struggled so to save,
And ah! that struggle led him to
His solitary grave.

Yes! Godwin’s son was born to fight—
To chase and not to fly,
And he was born for Hasting’s fate,
And that fate was to die.

Ah! weep ye noble Saxon men—
The last king of your line
Shall sleep the cold, still sleep of death,
That solemn sleep divine.

To-day we merry are and joy
Doth reign supreme around,
And music seems in every noise
And ev’ry passing sound.

To-morrow comes—that joy is gone—
There lies the human clay,
The spirit to its rest has gone
Where brighter shines the day.

We know not when that bidding comes,
That bears us from the earth;
How few the years that stand between
Our death-call and our birth.

Thus was’t with Harold—in the night,
Carousing in the tent,
His joy was great, but ’morrows light,
His knee in suppliance bent.{21}

The cup went round,—and small thought they
Upon the next day’s fight,
That Harold soon in death should lie
Within the waning light.

In William’s camp no cup went round,
But heads were bent in prayer,
And plans were laid; then silence kept
Its peaceful reigning there.

Oh! solemn was the prayer they said—
And solemn was the scene;
The archers with their bows stood by
With grave and silent mien.

The morning came,—the proud array
Stood silent as the dead;
The battle-axes in their hands
Did rise far overhead.

And in the midst, his armor bright,
Stood Harold with his sword,
And far and near around stood those
Who waited at his word.

The banner rose above them all—
Its warrior stood on high,
And precious stones did mark him there
That scarcely wealth could buy.

Duke William led his heroes forth
And gave them to the fray,
Ah, many of those heroes there
Ne’er saw another day.{22}

The battle raged, and sunset came,
And flashed on armor bright,
And all around were mangled men—
It was an awful sight.

King Harold fell, the arrow pierced
And bore him to the ground;
Ah! then was heard a trampling noise—
A wildly flying sound.

The warrior and the banner fell,
And dyed were they in blood
No more the Saxon’s sang their shout:
“God’s rood! aye, holy rood!”

THE TEMPERANCE SHIP.

THE HALL OF MEMORY.

There is a Hall of Memory
Within a happy land;
The walls are high and marble clear
With wealth on every hand.

The railings on the stairway
Are made of purest gold;
The marble steps below them
Are hard and stern and cold.

I love the Hall of Memory—
I love to linger there;
Sweet visions coming evermore,—
Its pictures bright and fair.

Its walls are decked with pictures
Made by a Masters hand;
The marble figures far and near
Alive they seem to stand.

But there is one fair picture
I love to gaze upon;
It is the picture of a time
That is forever gone.{24}

There is a Hall of Memory,
Its walls are stern and high;
The treasures it contains for me
No wealth can ever buy.

PEACE.

THE SUNSET LAND.

STANZAS.

THE SHIPWRECK.

The seagull screamed and flopped his wings
And hied him to his home;
The breakers dashed upon the shore—
Their crests were filled with foam.

The briny mounts were thrown on high
Where reeled a ship; the gale
Had shorn her of her masts, and torn
In shreds each flying sail.

Alas! a wail comes o’er the deep—
The ship is sinking fast—
The mighty mountains of the sea
Are aided by the blast.

’Tis morn again, the rosy morn
The storm at sea is o’er;
The elements are calm and still;
The wreck is on the shore.

Then take good care in future life,
While near the billows roll;—
Take care lest your own self be lost
By shipwreck of your soul.{27}

Then never let the breakers roll
To whelm the bark within,
As in the world you sail around
The blackened sea of sin.

CLEOPATRA’S NEEDLES.

It was in Africa’s torrid clime,
Two sisters stood alone,
And what they witnessed was a sight
To melt a heart of stone.

The English came and carried off
One sister, far away;
And now in London’s haunts she stands
And sorrows all the day.

They took her from her native spot,
Where she was wont to stand,
And placed her in a foreign clime,
Within a foreign land.

Ah! how she feels, with other eyes
Than on bright Egypt’s shore;—
She stands where she had never been—
To stand for evermore.

The others came with iron bonds,
Her sister, too, they brought,
To grace America’s bright parks
Where pity ne’er was thought.{28}

Ah! yes, in New York city’s haunts
That sister is to be;
Between the two the waters lie—
A dark and stormy sea.

Ah! now when I to Egypt’s plains
Do wend my careful way,
I’ll seek the spot where once they stood,
And there respect I’ll pay.

But, oh, the beauties will be gone—
The sisters are not there,
Insulted by a grosser race,
They stand where naught is fair.

SONNETS.

WINTER.

SUNSHINE.

POEMS.

PAST AND PRESENT.

GONE TO REST.

A DREAM.

THE LAST DRINK.

An old man entered a dram-shop,
He staggerd and stumbled in;
His face was as hard as granite,
His hair was light and thin.

The bar-keeper’s daughter entered
In a dress of purest white,
And she looked as sweet as could be
In her nice new clothes that night.{38}

The old man stopped, and reasoned,
For his own dear child he knew
Was shoeless and cold and ragged
And his wife was starving, too.

So the dime that lay in his pocket,
Bought bread for his wife that night,
And the old bar-keeper’s daughter
Still dressed in her snowy white.

But soon ere the winter was over
The drunkard was drunkard no more,
And the wife and child were happy
As they never had been before.

IN SPRING TIME.

Oh, fresh from the woodland comes the breath—
The breath of the beautiful spring;
And the gentle zephyrs that float about
Scents from the meadow and forest bring.
And in every tree
A robin in glee
Is chanting a joyous melody.

Oh the sweet calm breath of beautiful spring—
And the azure sky is bright above,
And the warm sunshine makes the whole world glad
For every beam is a message of love.
And in every tree
The robin in glee
Is chanting a joyous melody.{39}

The warm sun shines and the sweet flowers bloom,
But ah, the wild winds will be raving amain,
And the cold gray winter will ravish our joys—
The beauties of earth will be vanished again.
From every tree
The robin will flee
And fly to the South with his melody.

But let us enjoy these transient delights
And gaze on their beauty while linger they here.
Let us thank our dear Father such grandeur may come
While spring claims her place in every year;
And in every tree
A robin will be
Chanting a beautiful melody.

THE RAIN STORM.

SOLFERINO.

II.

III.

IV.

VI.

POEMS.

THE TEMPEST.

The cold gray mist crept o’er the shore,
And hung about the bay;
We saw the foaming of the surf
Within the twilight gray.

But through the twilight cold and still
We heard the hum from yonder town;
We saw the path around the hill
Come winding ever slowly down.

The wild wind rose as night came on,
We heard the waves beat on the shore;
The tempest wailed and moaned about
Above the distant roar.

Sad night, alas! was that to some
Who, on the dreary ocean wide
Heard far and near the tempest come—
The wailing winds on either side.{46}

A dreadful night—a stormy night—
It swept the wrecks ashore;
It was a time—a dreadful sight—
Forgotten nevermore.

That night was one of woe, alas!
The wild wind whistled by;
And seemed to be as it did pass
Some struggling sailor’s drowning cry.

THE PEACEFUL LAND.

THE LONELY CITY.

THE COURSE OF THE STREAM.

When the sunset in the west
Gilds the landscape far and near
Wraps the sun within his shroud
Dies he on a glorious bier.

When the night falls o’er the land,
Comes the cresent from the sky;
Silence reigns upon the scene,
As the brooklet hurries by.

When the starlight cold and still
Falls upon the earth below—
Falls upon the church-yard hill,
By the saddened brooklets flow.{48}

Slower come the drifting waters
Ceasing once their noisy glee.
As it passes by it sings on
In a plaintive melody.

Ghostly rise the marble spectres
O’er the beds of those who sleep;—
Ever in the night or day time
Still their solemn vigils keep.

When the sunrise in the east
Gilds the sky with flames of light,
Runs the brooklet fast to meet
With its waters ever bright.

Onward to the flowing river,
And its waters mingle there;
Oh! when shall they return agan
To the brooklet shining fair?

THE STAR.

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TITLE.	PAGE.
A DREAM	37
BY THE FIRESIDE	8
CLEOPATRA’S NEEDLES	27
CHRISTMAS NIGHT	5
FALLING OF THE APPLE TREE	6
GONE TO REST	36
HASTINGS	19
IN SPRING TIME	38
MY THOUGHTS	8
PEACE	24
PAST AND PRESENT	35
STANZAS	25
SUNSHINE	33
SOLFERINO	43
THE ANGELS	6
THE SPECTRES	7
THE YEARS	7
THE HAUNTED HOUSE	9
THE KINGDOM OF THE DEAD	10
THE WIND	10
THE SONG OF THE WIND	11
THE TEMPERANCE SHIP	22
THE HALL OF MEMORY	23
THE SUNSET LAND	24
THE SHIPWRECK	26
THE LAST DRINK	37
THE RAIN STORM	39
THE TEMPEST	45
THE PEACEFUL LAND	46
THE LONELY CITY	46
THE COURSE OF THE STREAM	47
THE STAR	48
WINTER	33