The Death-Raven (From The Danish Of Oehlenslaeger) (George Borrow Poems)
The silken sail, which caught the summer breeze,Drove the light vessel through the azure seas;Upon the lofty deck, Dame Sigrid ...
The silken sail, which caught the summer breeze,Drove the light vessel through the azure seas;Upon the lofty deck, Dame Sigrid ...
THREE times dark hovering in the east the nightChas'd with black misty wings the lingering light;And thrice the stars with ...
WHO INSISTED ON THE AUTHOR'S WRITING A POEM, ONMEETING BY APPOINTMENT WITH HER AND THREEOTHER LADIES AT AN INN ON ...
"THE breeze was hush'd; the modest moon-beam slept On the green bosom of the treach'rous wave; The lover Marli wander'd ...
"Silent he stalk'd, and ever and anon He shudder'd, and turn'd back, saying, ""Who follows?"" Horror had blanch'd his check; ...
O SUMMER! hither bend thy cheerful way,Our clime shall gladly hail thy sway;O! come in all thy flowery pride,With rural ...
NOW the moon-beam's trembling lustre Silvers o'er the dewy green,And in soft and shadowy colours Sweetly paints the ...
"OH, queen of dreams! 'tis now the hour, Thy fav'rite hour of silence and of sleep; Come, bring thy wand, ...
A LONELY Rock On the sea-shore stood,Its head to heaven, Its base in the flood,The dews of morning ...
THERE is an evening twilight of the heart,When its wild passion-waves are lulled to rest,And the eye see's life's fairy ...
STILL as I watch'd the evening close,In azure blue the pale moon rose;No sullen mist obscur'd her ray,Nor e'en a ...
Still as I watch'd the evening close,In azure blue the pale moon rose;No sullen mist obscur'd her ray,Nor e'en a ...
Behold you the beam On yonder tide,As it gently plays On the vessel's side?The white sails are spread, ...
ENOUGH for feeling, though too brief for words A moment on the lofty cliff I stood,And from the fearful ...
HAIL! lovely harbinger of day,To welcome whose returning rayAll Nature quits repose:How sweet thro' gilded clouds to traceThy beauteous joy-inspiring ...
"LONE in the desart rose his peaceful tomb; No sorrowing friend at morn or eve pass'd by; But when a ...
There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away ...
No cloud, no relique of the sunken day Distinguishes the West, no long thin slip Of sullen light, no obscure ...
THERE was a lass, and she was fair, At kirk or market to be seen; When a' our fairest maids ...
Author Note: Divers Princes and Noblemen being assembled in a beautiful and fair Palace, which was situate upon the river ...
"How sweetly," said the trembling maid, Of her own gentle voice afraid, So long had they in silence stood, Looking ...
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