The Bard (William Gilmore Simms Poems)
Where dwells the spirit of the Bard--what skyPersuades his daring wing,--Folded in soft carnation, or in snowStill sleeping, far o'er ...
Where dwells the spirit of the Bard--what skyPersuades his daring wing,--Folded in soft carnation, or in snowStill sleeping, far o'er ...
With anxious eyes and dry, expectant lips,Within the sculptured stoa by the sea,All day she waited while, like ghostly ships,Long ...
Muse, sing the deeds of golden Aphrodite,Who wakens with her smile the lulled delightOf sweet desire, taming the eternal kingsOf ...
PART OF A PROLOGUE WRITTEN AND SPOKEN BY THE POET LABERIUSA ROMAN KNIGHT, WHOM CAESAR FORCED UPON THE STAGEPRESERVED BY ...
At husking time the tassel fadesTo brown above the yellow blades,Whose rustling sheath enswathes the cornThat bursts its chrysalis in ...
SECTS in Religion?--Yes of every raceWe nurse some portion in our favour'd place;Not one warm preacher of one growing sectCan ...
Preludes.I The Impossibility Lo, Love's obey'd by all. 'Tis right ...
IWith Life and Death I walked when Love appeared,And made them on each side a shadow seem.Through wooded vales the ...
I know not why I love your baffling face,Or, lonely, to your cold caresses steal,Or what the charm persuades my ...
Since you have world enough and timeSir, to admonish me in rhyme,Pray Mr Marvell, can it beYou think to have ...
THROUGH the long night of watchfulness and pain, Where shall the worn and wearied spirit rest?Who listens in the ...
Oh! my soul's lord! to my enamour'd eye A fairer person lives not;--turn not thenIn soft confusion from me--nor ...
O Death! why dost thou steal the great,With grudging like to strongest hate,And rob the world of giant minds,For whom ...
It is Death, alas, persuades us to keep on living:the goal of life and the only hope we have,like an ...
At last you yielded up the album, which Once open, sent me distracted. All your ages Matt and glossy on ...
BE those few hours, which I have yet to spend, Blest with the meditation of my end; Though they be ...
Daphne's Answer to Sylvia, declaring she should esteem all as Enemies, who should talk to her of LOVE. THEN, to ...
Higher far, Upward, into the pure realm, Over sun or star, Over the flickering Dæmon film, Thou must mount for ...
-and not simply by the fact that this shading of forest cannot show the fragrance of balsam, the gloom of ...
Presumption and despair; or, Satan's various temptations. I hate the tempter and his charms, I hate his flatt'ring breath; The ...
Cupid, because thou shin'st in Stella's eyes, That from her locks, thy day-nets, noe scapes free, That those lips swell, ...
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