The Tri-Portrait (Nathaniel Parker Willis Poems)
'Twas a rich night in June. The air was all Fragrance and balm, and the wet leaves were stirred By the soft ...
'Twas a rich night in June. The air was all Fragrance and balm, and the wet leaves were stirred By the soft ...
Brilliant as Lucifer, Son of the Morning,Rises this reincarnation of Mars!Youth at its apogee, precedent scorning,Genius ascending its path toward ...
WHILE the lily dwells in earth,Walled about with crumbling mould,She the secret of her birthGuesses not, nor has been told.Hides ...
With lullay, lullay, like a child,Thou sleepest too long, thou art beguiled!'My darling dear, my daisy flower,Let me,' quoth he, ...
Thou warden of the western gate, above Manhattan Bay,The fogs of doubt that hid thy face are driven clean away:Thine ...
AGAIN thou comest like a star of brightness, -As pure and tender, as serene and fair;I bear thy tones of ...
If this our little life is but a dayIn the Eternal, - if the years in vainToil after hours that ...
Knew not the Sun, sweet Violet,The while he gleaned the snow,That thou in darkness sepulchred,Wast slumbering below?Or spun a splendor ...
1.WE are a shadow and a shining, we!One moment nothing seems but what we see,Nor aught to rule but common ...
Sleep a little, a little little, thou needst feel no fear or dread,Youth to whom my love is given, I ...
"WHAT! dost thou pray that the outgone tide be rolled back on the strand, The flame be rekindled that mounted ...
Foolish prater, what dost thou So early at my window do, With thy tuneless serenade? Well 't ...
This life is to thee like a region enchanted, O'er which thy rich fancy its rose-color throws;The hours as they ...
I wayed by star and planet shine Towards the dear one's home At Kingsbere, there to make her mine When ...
Thou warden of the western gate, above Manhatten Bay, The fogs of doubt that hid thy face are driven clean ...
They sleep within. . . . I cower to the earth, I waking, I only. High and cold thou dreamest, ...
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