Dramatis Personae.Werner--Misanthrope.Manuel--a cottager.Albert--his son.Rebecca--wife to Manuel.Rose--his daughter.Spirits.An aerial chorus.A fountain near the summit of a mountain, from which, through adeep ...
Harp of my soul, though thou hast hung Suspended from the willow boughTill much distorted, warped and sprung, And discord reigns within ...
Oh yes, there's fire in the heart of man-A beast is he when'er it pleases him:He frowns upon the members ...
A BATTLE-SHOUT for HungaryOnce more shall wake the day, -A joyful summons to the brave,To rally for the fray;To gird ...
Wouldst thou be very upright and sincere?Wouldst thou be that within thou dost appear,Or seem to be in outward exerciseBefore ...
MULTITUDINOUS the cry beating on the smokeveiled sky.Since the first war-wrath burst on immortal Belgium,- Roar of cannon, shriek of ...
O STATE prayer-founded! never hungSuch choice upon a people's tongue,Such power to bless or ban,As that which makes thy whisper ...
Sultry dampness--pine chips smoking,Off-scourings a span length,In the corners webs of spiders,Smut on dish and bench.Sooty black the bare wall, ...
A QUIET, simple man was Abel Keene,He meant no harm, nor did he often mean;He kept a school of loud ...
There once was a time when I revelled in rhyme, with Valentines deluged my cousins, Translated Tibullus and ...
FROM St. Peter's tower the bell had toll'd,For the Carmelite Monks to pray,And the holy priest by the altar kneel'dOn ...
There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away ...
And the first grey of morning fill'd the east, And the fog rose out of the Oxus stream. But all ...
