Vision Of Columbus – Book 8 (Joel Barlow Poems)
And now the Angel, from the trembling sight,Veil'd the wide world-when sudden shades of nightMove o'er the ethereal vault; the ...
And now the Angel, from the trembling sight,Veil'd the wide world-when sudden shades of nightMove o'er the ethereal vault; the ...
Once on a timeThere was a little boy: a master-mageBy virtue of a BookOf magic--O, so magical it filledHis life ...
We are accused of terrorism:if we defended rose and womanand the mighty verse...and the blueness of sky...A dominion... nothing left ...
Around my feet the clouds are drawnIn the cold mystery of the dawn;No breezes cheer, no guests intrudeMy mossy, mist-clad ...
Who in Bagdad knows not Jaffar, the Sun of the Universe?One day, many years ago (he was yet a youth), ...
In heavy sleep the Caliph lay, When some one called, "Arise, and pray!" The angry Caliph cried, "Who dare Rebuke his king for ...
A maiden from the Bosphorus,With eyes as bright as phosphorus,Once wed the wealthy bailiffOf the caliphOf Kelat.Though diligent and zealous, ...
PHI BETA KAPPA, JUNE 26, 1873THE Caliph ordered up his cook,And, scowling with a fearful lookThat meant,--We stand no gammon,--'To-morrow, ...
IN the caliph's garden, known as the Odoriferous, bloomed one day a stately rose;As the favourite sultana is queen of the ...
Of all that Orient lands can vauntOf marvels with our own competing,The strangest is the Haschish plant,And what will follow ...
Now the third and fatal conflict for the Persian throne was done,And the Moslem's fiery valor had the crowning victory ...
Moringa of the flood bedon the banks of the river Tigris.A dove on a swaying bough's mournful cooinghas turned me ...
Beside that milestone where the level sun,Nigh unto setting, sheds his last, low raysOn word and work irrevocably done,Life's blending ...
THE CONFIDANT.Anna was young and lovely--in her eyeThe glance of beauty, in her cheek the dye:Her shape was slender, and ...
Harun Omar and Master Hafiz keep your dead beautiful ladies. Mine is a little lovelier than any of your ladies ...
Fall'n was the House of Giafar; and its name,The high romantic name of Barmecide,A sound forbidden on its own bright ...
Upon a day in Ramadan- When sunset brought an end of fast, And in his station every man ...
What dreams were mine to-night, O fond romance, That came upon me like a summer sleep, And bound me so ...
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