A Broadway Idyl (Mary Eliza Perine Tucker Lambert Poems)
For hours I stood upon The Bridge,1Which looms like a volcanic ridge,Above a scathing fire below.A flaming crater of burning ...
For hours I stood upon The Bridge,1Which looms like a volcanic ridge,Above a scathing fire below.A flaming crater of burning ...
WHAT secret charm, long whispering in mine ear,Allures, attracts, compels, and chains me here,Where murmuring echoes call me to resignTheir ...
A POEM IN THREE CANTOS Canto I Ye Alps audacious, through the heavens that rise,To cramp the day and hide me from ...
1Dear, could the wise creator makeMe, nor imagine you,When from his wisdom's awful breathI came like trembling dew,You under my ...
The eternal all--sire from his throne, our isleRegarding; these Imperial shores, the whileEarth's orb rolls round, shewn, eminent in his ...
Oft have you seen a swan superbly frowning,And with proud breast his own white shadow crowning;He slants his neck beneath ...
I fell asleep upon a summer's dayAs on a shady woodland bank I lay,And as I slept there came to ...
A panting messenger of woe and dread,His garments torn, and dust upon his head,His wounded feet with blood and travel ...
WHENE'ER, my friend, this lamp I see,My grateful thoughts will warm tow'rds thee;Not with a blue , or vap'rous light,But ...
Renown'd for lyric and satiric lay, A two-fold poet, IShall on strong wing be upward borne Above the liquid sky;No more shall ...
Dear, if some god (lonely in ParadiseAnd jealous of my two-fold ecstasy)Were to demand one half as sacrifice-My love for ...
IOh, for the power to call to aid, of mineOwn humble Muse, the famed and sacred nine.Then might she fitly ...
IThe sister Hours in circles linked,Daughters of men, of men the mates,Are gone on flow with the day that winked,With ...
Law! what is law? The wise and sage, Of every clime and every age, In this most cordially unite, That ...
As the red Maclean went to and fro 'Twixt Duart and Cairnburg tower, One day he chanced to spy a ...
Dawn-cool, dew-coolGleams the surface of my poolBird haunted, fern enchanted,Where but tempered spirits rule;Stars do not trace their mystic linesIn ...
We've drunk to the Queen -- God bless her! -- We've drunk to our mothers' land; We've drunk to our ...
BOOK FIRST. I. ALL valor died not on the plains of Troy. Awake, my Muse, awake! be thine the joy ...
There are some qualities- some incorporate things, That have a double life, which thus is made A type of that ...
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