The Blind Lover To His Mistress (Laura Sophia Temple Poems)
Ah ! let me hear again that mellow strain,That dulcet trill, whose soft and lucid sweepSteals o'er my trembling soul ...
Ah ! let me hear again that mellow strain,That dulcet trill, whose soft and lucid sweepSteals o'er my trembling soul ...
IF thou wilt ease thine heartOf love, and all its smart,-Then sleep, dear, sleep!And not a sorrowHang any tear on ...
IHe who has looked upon EarthDeeper than flower and fruit,Losing some hue of his mirth,As the tree striking rock at ...
Thou, run to the dry on this wayside bank,Too plainly of all the propellers bereft!Quenched youth, and is that thy ...
"Sweet are the rosy memories of the lips That first kiss'd ours, albeit they kiss no more: Sweet is the ...
It wav'd not thro' an Eastern sky,Beside a fount of Araby;It was not fann'd by southern breezeIn some green isle ...
CROUCHED in the terrible land,The circle of pitiless ice,With frozen bloody feetAnd her pestilential summer'sFever-throb in her brow,Look, in her ...
Rapt she stood!Beautiful—but so very,—very still,That but for some light quivering of her lip,And the quick tremble of her lifted ...
THROUGH the air with a sound of wings,And a sea-wave's glistening rise and fall,In the apple-tree Marian swings.Like a skylark ...
Thy greatest knew thee, Mother Earth; unsoured He knew thy sons. He probed from hell to hell Of human passions, ...
Not the sea-wave so bellows abroad when it bursts upon shingle,Whipped from the sea's deeps up ...
A little too abstract, a little too wise, It is time for us to kiss the earth again, It is ...
When on the sandy shore I sit, Beside the salt sea-wave, And fall into a weeping fit Because I dare ...
I shall go away To the brown hills, the quiet ones, The vast, the mountainous, the rolling, Sun-fired and drowsy! ...
Next, then, the peacock, gilt With all its feathers. Look, what gorgeous dyes Flow in the eyes! And how deep, ...
Somno mollior unda I Dawn is dim on the dark soft water, Soft and passionate, dark and sweet. Love's own ...
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