Extracts From Leon. An Unfinished Poem (Joseph Rodman Drake Poems)
It is a summer evening, calm and fair,A warm, yet freshening glow is in the air;Along its bank, the cool ...
It is a summer evening, calm and fair,A warm, yet freshening glow is in the air;Along its bank, the cool ...
NOT far from Tyvy's banks and bayAn humble dwelling rose;Around its walls the woodbine twin'd,Encircled with the rose.The purple violet ...
ON A SUN-PORTRAIT OF HER HUSBAND, SENT BY HISWIFE TO THEIR FRIEND.Beautiful eyes,—and shall I see no moreThe living thought ...
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *To-night ...
"We fly from the cold."AWAY , away, o'er land and sea,This is now no home for me;My light wings may ...
But in her Temple's last recess inclos'd, On Dulness' lap th' Anointed head repos'd. Him close she curtains round with ...
The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feasts Excited the spleen of the Birds and the Beasts: For their mirth ...
MY aged head now stoops its honours low, Bow'd with the load of fifty winters' snow; And for the raven's ...
"HATH not the dark stream closed above thy head, With envy of thy light, thou shining one? Hast thou not, ...
Know you a soul so white and inly pure That sin itself, committed by her hand, Permitted by her brain, ...
You, the choice minions of the proud-lipped nine Who warble at the great Apollo's knee, Why do you laugh at ...
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
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