Oswald, The Minnesinger (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
A Legend of Schloss Forst, near MeranPROLOGUEOswald von Wolkenstein, the Last of the Minnesingers, loved a beautifulwoman, named Sabina, who ...
A Legend of Schloss Forst, near MeranPROLOGUEOswald von Wolkenstein, the Last of the Minnesingers, loved a beautifulwoman, named Sabina, who ...
The Alps of the Tyrol are dark with pines,Where, foaming under the mountain spines,The Inn's long water sounds and shines.Beyond, ...
Belov'd Meran, supremely fair!With joy I greet thy peaks anew,And quaff again the crystal airThat fills thy snow-rimmed bowl of ...
The smile of God was in the air;Enwreathed in veils of silvery hue,The valley lay, divinely fair,Beneath a cloudless vault ...
In Mantua in fettersThe faithful Hofer lay,Condemned by hostile soldiersTo die at break of day;Now bled his comrades' hearts in ...
Urge me no more! The mid-day toil is ended,And shadows lengthen from the radiant west;The glowing sun, with sumptuous clouds ...
Garibaldi! Garibaldi! Bleeds and burns my heart for thee!Freedom! union for Italia! Never can be won by thee.Dipp'd in freedom's sacred fountain, Waved ...
Sink, sullen rear-guard of the storm,Behind the Laugen's snowy crest!Already Rotheck's lordly formStands spotless in the radiant west;Blow, winter wind, ...
OBERMAIS Obermais! Obermais! Charming bit of Paradise,Where the palm and snow are blended,Where life's joys seem never ended,Where the purl of limpid ...
Book of my youth, I send thee to a friendMet, comprehended, loved, alas! too late,--Too near the sad, inevitable endDecreed ...
"'There sinks the nebulous star we call the Sun,If that hypothesis of theirs be sound'Said Ida; 'let us down and ...
GIRT round with rugged mountains the fair Lake Constance lies;In her blue heart reflected, shine back the starry skies;And, watching ...
It was the dead midnight; No star was in the sky; The struggling moon shed a troubled light As she ...
A Legend of Tyrol I through the valley of Klausen went By a little stream, and heard it sigh, Down ...
'There sinks the nebulous star we call the Sun, If that hypothesis of theirs be sound' Said Ida; 'let us ...
You do not do, you do not do Any more, black shoe In which I have lived like a foot ...
Dürer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this, with eight stranded whales to look at; ...
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