The Silver Herons (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Within a home for captive beastsWhose world had dwindled to a cage,I noted in their mournful eyesSuch resignation, fear, and ...
Within a home for captive beastsWhose world had dwindled to a cage,I noted in their mournful eyesSuch resignation, fear, and ...
Everything seems lost and gone.The world seems void; and I aloneTo mourn its emptiness, that am too weak tomourn:To mope ...
The North-east Trade blows and you cross the LineAnon. There Neptune boards your bark to shaveAll the green-horns. Miss Fanny ...
OUR thanks to you, great Sultan ! You have turnedArmenia to a chaos of hewn stone;Daily by myriads you have ...
Round Rajagriha five fair hills arose,Guarding King Bimbas?ra's sylvan town:Baibh?ra green with lemon-grass and palms;Bipulla, at whose foot thin SarsutiSteals ...
ON HER APPROACHING MARRIAGE. Since now thou art about to leave Thy father's quiet house, And all the phantoms and ...
Now ponder well, you parents deare,These wordes which I shall write;A doleful story you shall heare,In time brought forth to ...
(As Austin Dobson might have written it)Their pail they must fill In a crystalline springlet,Brave Jack and fair Jill.Their pail ...
Upon his battlements he stood,And downward gazed in joyous mood, On Samos' Isle, that owned his sway,"All this is ...
- 1 -Once on my way from ZubovkaI met a maid with ...
The night hung o'er Virginia's forest wild, Stately with beauty unsurpassed beforeShone the full moon serenely; and the windAs it ...
Jim marched away one summer day To fight the boastful Hun, In khaki clad, as fine a ...
Extended on a cursed tree,Besmeared with dust, and sweat, and blood,See there, the king of glory see!Sinks and expires the ...
With a twinkle in his eyeHe'd come gayly walkin' byAn' he'd whistle to the children An' he'd beckon 'em to ...
Do not ask, my love, for the love we had before: You existed, I told myself, so all existence shone, ...
Not midst the chanting of the Requiem Hymn,Nor with the solemn ritual of prayer,Neath misty shadows from the oriel glass,And ...
Upon his battlements he stood, And downward gazed in joyous mood, On Samos' Isle, that owned his sway, "All this ...
Five hours, (and who can do it less in?) By haughty Celia spent in dressing; The goddess from her chamber ...
Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes shall outlive this powerful rhyme, But you shall shine more bright in ...
Now Morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl, When Adam waked, so ...
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and ...
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