The Fair Nun (Elijah Fenton Poems)
Ire per Ignes,Et gladios ausim. Neque ad hoc tamen ignibus ullis,Aut gladiis opus est; opus est mihi Crine. —Ovid. Met. ...
Ire per Ignes,Et gladios ausim. Neque ad hoc tamen ignibus ullis,Aut gladiis opus est; opus est mihi Crine. —Ovid. Met. ...
Poor, pretty little thing she was, The sweetest-faced of girls, With eyes as blue as larkspurs, And ...
Rose-red for the banner of love, And a blush for the cheek of the bride; To the valleys and hills ...
I looked far in the future; down the dimEcholess avenue of silent years,And through the cold grey haze of Time ...
THE dawn hangs heavy on the distant hill,The darkness shudders slowly into light;And from the weary bosom of the nightThe ...
1553-4 Two ships upon the steel-blue Arctic seas When day was long and night itself was day, Forged heavily before ...
Lilacs, False blue, White, Purple, Color of lilac, Your great puffs of flowers Are everywhere in this my New England. ...
Eighty men of Devon stood out to sweep the sea, To plough the Spanish Main, my boys, to plough ...
Translated From The German of Schiller."KNIGHT, with sister's love for brother, Dear to me thou art: Take this love, and ...
In the everlasting summer, when the town is limp with heat,and the asphalt of the footpath curls your boots and ...
'TIS the laughter of pines that swing and swayWhere the breeze from the land meets the breeze from the bay;'Tis ...
But yesterday--the exulting nation's shout Swelled on the breeze of victory through our streets, ...
In a garden of delight,Where sweet Nature's wand disclosesWondrous vistas to the sight,Once I met a rose-bush, dightIn a wealth ...
They have met at last — as storm-clouds Meet in heaven,And the Northmen back and bleeding ...
1 A yellow band of light upon the street Pours from an open door, and makes a wide Pathway of ...
Part First Frau Concert-Meister Altgelt shut the door. A storm was rising, heavy gusts of wind Swirled through the trees, ...
This ballad appears to refer to one of the exploits of the notorious Paul Jones, the American pirate. It is ...
Despite the noon sun shimmering on Court Street, each day I leave my desk, and window-shop, waste time, and use ...
He preached upon "Breadth" till it argued him narrow -- The Broad are too broad to define And of "Truth" ...
Beyond the Rocking Bridge it lies, the burg of evil fame, The huts where hive and swarm and thrive the ...
Heavens above! here's an old tie of your-- Sea-green dragons stamped on a golden ground. Ha! Ha! Ha! What children ...
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