The Brown Dwarf of Rugen (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
The pleasant isle of Rugen looks the Baltic water o'er,To the silver-sanded beaches of the Pomeranian shore;And in the town ...
The pleasant isle of Rugen looks the Baltic water o'er,To the silver-sanded beaches of the Pomeranian shore;And in the town ...
(NORMANDE.)I AM weary of lying within the chaseWhen the knights are meeting in market-place.Nay, go not thou to the red-roofed ...
'LEAVES and brambles from hill and hollowCome and gather!' the children cried;'The sun goes down, and the night will follow,A ...
I Her violin!--Again begin The dream-notes of her violin; And dim and fair, with gold-brown hair, I seem to see her standing there, Soft-eyed and ...
O'er rocks where sea waves wrestled, far from yon city's heightA woman walked 'mid shadows, and watched for morning light.A ...
All through the night the wind lies still,Curbing the strength of an eager will;Morning finds it humming through the trees ...
The blackberry's bloom, when last we went this way,Veiled all her bowsome rods with trembling white;The robin's sunset breast gave ...
And what is life?--a pleasure and a pain, A vision of the sun--a day of rain. And what is love?--a ...
She stood by my side with a queenly air, Her face it was young and proud and fair; She held ...
OH light as the foam on the Plover, That mottles that magical stream;Oh light as the vows of a ...
Prison'd king! What worlds of woe In thy weary, gold-brown eyes —Thoughts of roaming long ago Under Afric's ...
Once as I slumbered, with my heart awake-- Love's lonely sentinel--my lady stood, Fair in the glory of her womanhood, ...
'Mid my gold-brown curls There twined a silver hair: I plucked it idly out And scarcely knew 'twas there. Coiled ...
I am weary of lying within the chase When the knights are meeting in market-place. Nay, go not thou to ...
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