Convict Once – Part Third. (James Brunton Stephens Poems)
I.1IT was a fever, they tell me: to me 'twas a sleep and a waking;Yet not a sleep without dreams: ...
I.1IT was a fever, they tell me: to me 'twas a sleep and a waking;Yet not a sleep without dreams: ...
ANGEL of Death! extend thy silent reign!Stretch thy dark sceptre o'er this new domainNo sable car along the winding roadHas ...
IT is sweet to rejoice for a day,-For a day that is reached at last!It is well for wanderers in ...
And now, while the dark vast earth shakes and rocksIn this wild dream-like snare of mortal shocks,How look (I muse) ...
The Earth that in her genial breastMakes for the down a kindly nest,Where wafted by the warm south-west It floats at ...
The shower of moonlight falls as still and clear Upon this desert mainAs where sweet flowers some pastoral garden cheer With fragrance ...
FRAMER of the earth and sky,Ruler of the day and night,With a glad variety,Tempering all, and making light;Gleams upon our ...
Sailors there are of the gentlest breed, Yet strong, like every goodly thing;The discipline of arms refines, And the wave gives tempering. The ...
Behold, with my naked hands did I part my ribs,Baring my heart in a basin of scarlet.Into this did I ...
See how the fire rude silver purifies, The sage refiner sitting watchful by, And tempering heat intense, judiciously With stream of cooler air, ...
April makes no differenceto the Lavalle cork treeimported from central Japan;to the Sakhalin cork,its diamond barkrising into branchesfrom a trunk ...
Swept from his fleet upon that fatal night When great Poseidon's sudden-veering wrath Scattered the happy homeward-floating Greeks Like foam-flakes ...
Love, that long since hast to thy mighty powrePerforce subdude my poor captived hart,And raging now therein with restlesse stowre,Doest ...
TO A PORTRAIT. PAINTED BY THE LATE G. S. NEWTON, ESQ., R.A., FROM AN OLD MINIATURE, SAID TO BE OF ...
THRONE of expression! whence the spirit's rayPours forth so oft the light of mental day,Where fancy's fire, affection's melting beam,Thought, ...
There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away ...
Swift as a spirit hastening to his task Of glory & of good, the Sun sprang forth Rejoicing in his ...
Before those cruel twins whom at one birth Incestuous Change bore to her father Time, Error and Truth, had hunted ...
ROSALIND, HELEN, and her Child. SCENE. The Shore of the Lake of Como. HELEN Come hither, my sweet Rosalind. 'T ...
Descend from Heaven, Urania, by that name If rightly thou art called, whose voice divine Following, above the Olympian hill ...
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