Pennsylvania Hall (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
NOT with the splendors of the days of old,The spoil of nations, and barbaric gold;No weapons wrested from the fields ...
NOT with the splendors of the days of old,The spoil of nations, and barbaric gold;No weapons wrested from the fields ...
WHAT ailed young Lucius? Art had vainly triedTo guess his ill, and found herself defied.The Augur plied his legendary skill;Useless; ...
I tread the vast deserted stageWhereon the Caesars lived and died;The relics of Rome's golden ageLie strewn about me far ...
The autumn sun still bravely streamsAlong the tomb-girt Appian Way,And warms the heart of one who dreamsOf all its splendor ...
On a very round plate of real porcelainan apple posesface to face with ita painter of realityvainly tries to paintthe ...
For him who brake in thund rous fray the ocean power of SpainWe have rebuilt the Flavian arch of Titus, ...
DERE'S lighds oopon de Appian, Dey shine de road entlang; Und from ein hundert tombs dere brumms A wild Lateinisch ...
The great Lars Andersonicus, Who dwelleth in the South,Who hath the front of Grecian Jove And the heavy bearded mouth,He ...
Where the dreaming Tiber wanders by the haunted Appian Way,Lo! the nightingale is uttering a sorrow-burdened lay!While the olive trees ...
WE sneer and we laugh with the lip-the most of us do it, Whenever a brother goes down like a ...
ACROSS the broad Campagna fell The softly dropping rain, Obscured the hills I love so well, And blotted out the ...
Glion?--Ah, twenty years, it cuts All meaning from a name! White houses prank where once were huts. Glion, but not ...
In his cool hall, with haggard eyes, The Roman noble lay; He drove abroad, in furious guise, Along the Appian ...
Ruins in Rome are four a penny, And here along the Appian Way I see the monuments of many Esteemed ...
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown ...
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