On The Palentine (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
I tread the vast deserted stageWhereon the Caesars lived and died;The relics of Rome's golden ageLie strewn about me far ...
I tread the vast deserted stageWhereon the Caesars lived and died;The relics of Rome's golden ageLie strewn about me far ...
The jocund years with smiling plenty crown'd,In shining circles now advanc'd their round:Unbounded crops reward the reaper's toil,And rustick pleasures ...
AT THE TOMB OF ARGANTYR. ARUNIC DIALOGUE. HERVA. ARGANTYR, wake!--to thee I call,Hear from thy dark sepulchral hall!'Mid the Forest's ...
IOn her great venture, Man,Earth gazes while her fingers dint the breastWhich is his well of strength, his home of ...
OR OF THE BEGINNINGS OF THE HUMAN RACE. Illustrious fathers of the human race, Of you, the song of your ...
I've never had much truck with kings (Said old George Jones). For all my daysMy lot's been cast 'mid common ...
War raged around this troubled world, When I was but a lad,And into battle men were hurled, As some ambition ...
A green and silent spot, amid the hills, A small and silent dell ! O'er stiller place No singing sky-lark ...
1 Sometime now past in the Autumnal Tide, 2 When Ph{oe}bus wanted but one hour to bed, 3 The trees ...
It's akin to visiting my foster mother, today, That I am returning to you, mother city, after twenty years, I ...
If there were more than one of me I'd shave my head and grow my beard I'd be a Doctor ...
A curse upon each king who leads his state, No matter what his plea, to this foul game, And may ...
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