Extracts From Leon. An Unfinished Poem (Joseph Rodman Drake Poems)
It is a summer evening, calm and fair,A warm, yet freshening glow is in the air;Along its bank, the cool ...
It is a summer evening, calm and fair,A warm, yet freshening glow is in the air;Along its bank, the cool ...
Oft have you seen a swan superbly frowning,And with proud breast his own white shadow crowning;He slants his neck beneath ...
The tropic day's redundant charms Cool twilight soothes away,The sun slips down behind the palms And leaves the landscape grey. I want to ...
I.NOON. The tanned and sultry noon climbs high Up gleaming reaches of the sky; Below the balmy belts of pines The cliff-lunged river laps ...
The autumn comes, a maiden fairIn slenderness and grace,With nodding rice-stems in her hairAnd lilies in her face.In flowers of ...
Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness,Bow down before Him, His glory proclaim;Gold of obedience and incense of lowliness,Bring ...
She is as beautiful as the eastern Sun,As the proud white peacock spreading his glorious fan,As the many patterned gold ...
In such a spot, with radiant flowers for halo,I saw the Guardian Angel sit her down;Vine-branches fashioned a green shrine ...
The purple rain-clouds climb the hill of heaven, But storm in vain the stronghold of the sun,Though high in air ...
This is the son of the white morning singing, Combing her silken hair's simmer of gold, All of her slenderness ...
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