The Fair Captive (Albery Allson Whitman Poems)
The idle winds at dawn that strayedThro' wavy depths of joyous shade,The early chirp of breeze-swung boughs,The carol of the ...
The idle winds at dawn that strayedThro' wavy depths of joyous shade,The early chirp of breeze-swung boughs,The carol of the ...
WE had a sprightly nymph--in every townAre some such sprights, who wander up and down;She had her useful arts, and ...
IIn far-off England, years ago, There dwelt a wise old sageWho, from the book of future years Could tare for ...
The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feasts Excited the spleen of the Birds and the Beasts: For their mirth ...
But now Sabrina's guilty fire returns, Her bosom with the raging passion burns: She with a female tenderness relents, And ...
OBSERVE that tall pale Veteran! what a lookOf shame and guilt!--who cannot read that book?Misery and mirth are blended in ...
IVirgin of the vestal flame, Numa's child so chaste and fair,Ah! Floronia is thy name! Goddess of the raven hair;Weepest ...
HAIL! Melancholy! sable queen,With aspect awfully serene;Of silent Solitude the birth,Foe to giddy senseless Mirth;With raven plumes thy brows are ...
IThe folks in Section A Who watch a problem play Of the kind C. F. imports for Ethel Barrymore Will ...
The thoughts of the future doth puzzle my mind, And O'how I shudder at flitting of time; It seems that ...
Horatio, of ideal courage vain,Was flourishing in air his father's cane,And, as the fumes of valour swelled his pate,Now thought ...
Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art ...
[Goethe relates that a remarkable situation he was in one bright moonlight night led to the composition of this sweet ...
Creator, Redeemer, Sustainer Names of the Trinity avoiding the patronymic the male language that separates many from God the loaded ...
THE Lombard princes oft pervade my mind; The present tale Boccace relates you'll find; Agiluf was the noble monarch's name; ...
THE PROLOGUE. The Sompnour in his stirrups high he stood, Upon this Friar his hearte was so wood,* *furious That ...
The Barrister's Dream They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; ...
Dedication Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with ...
Characters of the children of God. From several scriptures. So new-born babes desire the breast, To feed, and grow, and ...
He said, and pass'd with sad presaging heart To seek his spouse, his soul's far dearer part; At home he ...
About a hundred and fifty years ago, History relates it happened so, A big ship sailed from the shores of ...
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