Thorgerda (John Howard Payne Poems)
LO, what a golden day it is! The glad sun rives the sapphire deeps Down to the dim pearl-floor'd abyss ...
LO, what a golden day it is! The glad sun rives the sapphire deeps Down to the dim pearl-floor'd abyss ...
White artist he, who, breezeless nights, From tingling stars jocosely whirls, A harlequin in spangled tights, His wand a pot of pounded pearls. The ...
I.Ah, what can ail thee, wretched wight, Alone and palely loitering?The sedge is withered from the lake, And no birds sing.2.Ah, what ...
Oh what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, Alone and palely loitering?The sedge has withered from the lake, And no birds sing.Oh what can ...
'Twas night; I stood on yonder fir-crown'd height And look'd on flaming furnace, forge, and mine;The black-brow'd clouds with lurid fires ...
LO! in its still, soft-shrouded place,The pathos of a death-pale face!I view the marks of mortal careTime's hopeless sorrows branded ...
On the next morrow, early, rose the king; And sat upon his throne: at his right hand, The heroic queen: ...
On the next morning,--so by heavenly Voice Instructed,--unto Pharaoh went again Moses and Aaron; craving to be heard, Because of ...
I.If thou hadst been a sculptor, what a raceOf forms divine had thenceforth filled the land!Methinks I see thee, glorious ...
HOW lightly men can love, how soon forget! I said--yet some there be not false or fickle: For one, the ...
I.I SHALL not paint them. God them sees, and I: No other can, nor need. They have no form, I ...
O WHO are thou with that queenly brow And uncrowned head? And why is the vest that binds thy breast, ...
O Sovereign power of love! O grief! O balm! All records, saving thine, come cool, and calm, And shadowy, through ...
Ah, what can ail thee, wretched wight, Alone and palely loitering; The sedge is wither'd from the lake, And no ...
When the flaming lute-thronged angelic door is wide; When an immortal passion breathes in mortal clay; Our hearts endure the ...
Author Note: Divers Princes and Noblemen being assembled in a beautiful and fair Palace, which was situate upon the river ...
Author Note: In Finland there is a Castle which is called the New Rock, moated about with a river of ...
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