Poems about rainbowed (17 Poems)
One Day And Another: A Lyrical Eclogue – Part IV (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
LATE AUTUMN _They who die young are blest.– Should we not envy such? They are Earth’s happiest, God-loved and favored much!– They who die young are blest._ 1 _Sick and sad, propped among pillows, she sits at her window._ ’Though the dog-tooth violet come With … Continue reading
One Day And Another: A Lyrical Eclogue – Part V (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
WINTER _We, whom God sets a task, Striving, who ne’er attain, We are the curst!–who ask Death, and still ask in vain. We, whom God sets a task._ 1 _In the silence of his room. After many days._ All, all are shadows. All must … Continue reading
An Ode (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
_In Commemoration of the Founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the Year 1623._ I. They who maintained their rights, Through storm and stress, And walked in all the ways That God made known, Led by no wandering lights, And by no guess, Through dark and desolate … Continue reading
Ode Read At The One Hundreth Anniversary Of The Fight At Concord Bridge (James Russell Lowell Poems)
I Who cometh over the hills,Her garments with morning sweet,The dance of a thousand rillsMaking music before her feet?Her presence freshens the air;Sunshine steals light from her face;The leaden footstep of CareLeaps to the tune of her pace,Fairness of all … Continue reading
The Casket Of Opals (George Parsons Lathrop Poems)
IDeep, smoldering colors of the land and seaBurn in these stones, that, by some mystery,Wrap fire in sleep and never are consumed.Scarlet of daybreak, sunset gleams half spentIn thick white cloud; pale moons that may have lentLight to love’s grieving; … Continue reading
“The Morn That Breaks Its Heart Of Gold” (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
From an ode “In Commemoration of the Founding of theMassachusetts Bay Colony.” The morn that breaks its heart of goldAbove the purple hills;The eve, that spillsIts nautilus splendor where the sea is rolled;The night, that leads the vast procession inOf … Continue reading
Morning in Norfolk (George Barker Poems)
As it has for so longcome wind and all weatherthe house glimmers amongthe mists of a littleriver that splinters, itseems, a landscape ofwinter dreams. In the farfields stand a fewbare trees decoratingthose mists like the fannedpatterns of Georgianskylights. The home … Continue reading
Elusion (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I My soul goes out to her who says,“Come, follow me and cast off care!”Then tosses back her sun-bright hair,And like a flower before me swaysBetween the green leaves and my gaze:This creature like a girl, who smilesInto my eyes … Continue reading
Anthem Of Dawn (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I Then up the orient heights to the zenith, that balanced the crescent,–Up and far up and over,–the heaven grew erubescent,Vibrant with rose and with ruby from the hands of the harpist Dawn,Smiting symphonic fire on the firmament’s barbiton:And the … Continue reading
The Enviable Isles (Herman Melville Poems)
_From “Rammon.”_ Through storms you reach them and from storms are free. Afar descried, the foremost drear in hue,But, nearer, green; and, on the marge, the sea Makes thunder low and mist of rainbowed dew. But, inland, where the sleep that folds the hillsA … Continue reading