A Touching Ceremony (Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon Poems)
On a golden autumn morning,Just fifty years ago,When harvests ripe lay smilingIn the sunshine's yellow glow,A pious group was standingRound ...
On a golden autumn morning,Just fifty years ago,When harvests ripe lay smilingIn the sunshine's yellow glow,A pious group was standingRound ...
A CLOISTERED nun had a loverDwelling in the neighb'ring town;Both racked their brains to discoverHow they best their love might ...
WHEN Sister Jane, who had produced a child,In prayer and penance all her hours beguiledHer sister-nuns around the lattice pressed;On ...
THE SPAGNOLETTO.DRAMATIS PERSONAE.DON JOHN of AUSTRIA.JOSEF RIBERA, the Spagnoletto.LORENZO, noble young Italian artist, pupil of Ribera.DON TOMMASO MANZANO.LUCA, servant to ...
On Santa Croce's golden-pillared shrine, A thousand tapers pour their blended rays In one rich tide of radiance. Like a ...
Ire per Ignes,Et gladios ausim. Neque ad hoc tamen ignibus ullis,Aut gladiis opus est; opus est mihi Crine. —Ovid. Met. ...
ACT V.SCENE I. A Room in DON TOMMASO'S House. ANNICCA discovered, attired in mourning. Enter DON TOMMASO.DON TOMMASO.If he still ...
The dim, mysterious, ruddy lightThat ushers in an autumn night,Hung o'er the reeking fields that layBefore me, on my lonely ...
Of Guinevere from Arthur separate,And separate from Launcelot and the world,And shielded in the convent with her sin,As one draws ...
1100Through sapling shades of summer green, By glade and height and hollow,Where Rufus rode the stag to bay,King Henry spurs ...
THEY lie, with upraised hands, and feet Stretched like dead feet that walk no more, And stony masks oft human ...
HE shtood peside de Kloster-place, Oopon de Rheinisch shore, Und dere he saw a lofely face, He'd seen in treams ...
The Bell in the convent tower swung. High overhead the great sun hung, A navel for the curving sky. The ...
EXAMPLE often proves of sov'reign use; At other times it cherishes abuse; 'Tis not my purpose, howsoe'er, to tell Which ...
I LATELY vowed to leave the nuns alone, So oft their freaks have in my page been shown. The subject ...
ONCE more permit me, nuns, and this the last; I can't resist, whatever may have passed, But must relate, what ...
A CLOISTERED nun had a lover Dwelling in the neighb'ring town; Both racked their brains to discover How they best ...
WHEN Cupid with his dart, would hearts assail, The rampart most secure is not the VEIL; A husband better will ...
WHEN Sister Jane, who had produced a child, In prayer and penance all her hours beguiled Her sister-nuns around the ...
Queen Guinevere had fled the court, and sat There in the holy house at Almesbury Weeping, none with her save ...
Within this sober Frame expect Work of no Forrain Architect; That unto Caves the Quarries drew, And Forrests did to ...
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