After The Storm (Louis Lavater Poems)
As children vex a lion in his cageThemselves secure, the doorway barred and locked,So, Ocean! have I railed at thee, ...
As children vex a lion in his cageThemselves secure, the doorway barred and locked,So, Ocean! have I railed at thee, ...
WHAT sudden voice peals to the Caucasus,To Finland and the bitter Caspian,To those Siberian prisons whither manShall seek as to ...
Leodogran, the King of Cameliard, Had one fair daughter, and none other child;And she was the fairest of all flesh ...
While thus the gentle Aziel, at the sight Of holiness, to thoughts of Heaven recalled, Stood contrite, watchful,--by far different ...
King Arthur made new knights to fill the gapLeft by the Holy Quest; and as he satIn hall at old ...
Throughout the city, and the lands around, Soon ran the rumour that, from Israel's God, Moses a word had brought ...
'Whose heart was breaking for a little love.'Downstairs I laugh, I sport and jest with all; But in my solitary ...
Love has no triumph and no future crown For feeble hearts, that cannot stand the test Of adverse fortunes--trials wellnigh ...
Men make them fires on the hearth Each under his roof-tree, And the Four Winds that rule the earth They ...
THOUGHTS ON JESUS CHRIST'S DESCENT INTO HELL. [THE remarkable Poem of which this is a literal but faint representation, was ...
"Tie stille, barn min! Imorgen kommer Fin, Fa'er din, Og gi'er dich Esbern Snares öine og hjerte at lege med!" ...
Dagonet, the fool, whom Gawain in his mood Had made mock-knight of Arthur's Table Round, At Camelot, high above the ...
From noiseful arms, and acts of prowess done In tournament or tilt, Sir Percivale, Whom Arthur and his knighthood called ...
Queen Guinevere had fled the court, and sat There in the holy house at Almesbury Weeping, none with her save ...
Leodogran, the King of Cameliard, Had one fair daughter, and none other child; And she was the fairest of all ...
O purblind race of miserable men, How many among us at this very hour Do forge a life-long trouble for ...
Dagonet, the fool, whom Gawain in his mood Had made mock-knight of Arthur's Table Round, At Camelot, high above the ...
King Arthur made new knights to fill the gap Left by the Holy Quest; and as he sat In hall ...
Forth from Calais, at dawn of night, when sunset summer on autumn shone, Fared the steamer alert and loud through ...
Captain Carpenter rose up in his prime Put on his pistols and went riding out But had got wellnigh nowhere ...
We buried old Bob where the bloodwoods wave At the foot of the Eaglehawk; We fashioned a cross on the ...
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