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 ...
A MAN of peace, I never dared to marry,Lover of tranquil hours, I dwelt apart;Outside the realm where noisy schemes ...
HUGH FALCON learned this happy truth one day;('Twas a fair noontide in the month of May)--When, as the chaplain of ...
Sad Autumn is the miser of thy gold; But dead and meek Thy petals speak More than thy beauty told.Now art thou sister ...
Ere, in the northern gale,The summer tresses of the trees are gone,The woods of Autumn, all around our vale,Have put ...
It cannot beRose, violet, lily,Their crushed life should retain,Flowers that recall thy sweetness be ensouled,And thou distil to nothing, thou ...
Thou art the music that I hear in sleep, The poetry that lures me on in dreams; The magic, thou, that holds ...
The poet hath a realm within, and throne,And in his own soul singeth his lament.A comer often in the world ...
Throughout the city, and the lands around, Soon ran the rumour that, from Israel's God, Moses a word had brought ...
NEVER again! When first that sentence fell From lips so loth the bitter truth to tell, Death seemed the balance ...
. Had it pleas'd him, from whom all wisdom flows, Him, who each good, each perfect gift bestows, With knowledge ...
A sad, sweet dream; it fell upon my soul When song and thought first woke their echoes there,Swaying my spirit ...
THE SUN is sinking over hill and sea,Its red light fires a spectral line of shore;Night droops upon our half-world ...
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