At Sunset (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Belov'd Meran, supremely fair!With joy I greet thy peaks anew,And quaff again the crystal airThat fills thy snow-rimmed bowl of ...
Belov'd Meran, supremely fair!With joy I greet thy peaks anew,And quaff again the crystal airThat fills thy snow-rimmed bowl of ...
Scarred on a hundred fields before,Naked and starved and travel-sore, Each man a tiger hunted,They stood at bay as brave as ...
Next to my office where I edit poems ("Can poems be edited?") there is the Chicago Models club. All day ...
The pin-swin or spine-swine(the edgehog miscalled hedgehog) with all his edges out, echidna and echinoderm in distressed-pin-cushion thorn-fur coats, the spiny ...
Westward a league the city lay, with oneCloud's imminent umbrage o'er it: when behold,The incendiary sunDropped from the womb o' ...
Her old love in tears and silence had been building her a palaceRinged by moats and flanked with towers, he ...
I I stood once where these rows of deep piazzas Frown on the harbor from their columned pride, ...
Listen to the Poet's story Of an ancient bell,Freighted with its wreaths of glory, With its fate as well:On Alhambra's ...
Farewell, farewell! Before our prow Leaps in white foam the noisy channel,A tourist's cap is on my brow, My legs ...
I know him, February's thrush,And loud at eve he valentinesOn sprays that paw the naked bushWhere soon will sprout the ...
The silence of the white, bedewed way Was flanked still with the songs of amorous birds, Bruiting their joy for ...
Here when the cloudless April days begin,And the quaint crows flock thicker day by day,Filling the forests with a pleasant ...
Into the world's most high and holy placesMen carry selfishness, and graft and greed.The air is rent with warring of ...
God! How I hate you, you young cheerful men,Whose pious poetry blossoms on your gravesAs soon as you are in ...
Said Paul Leroy to Barrow, 'Though the breach is steep and narrow, If we only gain the summit Then it's ...
Because of the unaccountable spirit of the troops oh we were marched as we were never marched before and flanked ...
With wood and wool for Adelaide The paddle boats came downWhen here this spritely river maid Built up her river ...
565One Anguish-in a Crowd-A Minor thing-it sounds-And yet, unto the single DoeAttempted of the Hounds'Tis Terror as consummateAs Legions of ...
The Bell in the convent tower swung. High overhead the great sun hung, A navel for the curving sky. The ...
One Anguish -- in a Crowd -- A Minor thing -- it sounds -- And yet, unto the single Doe ...
'Twas in the year of 1746, and in April the 14th day, That Prince Charles Stuart and his army marched ...
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