The Mediterranean (Anne C Lynch Poems)
Hail! thou eternal flood, whose restless waves Roll onward in their course, as wild and free, As if the shores ...
Hail! thou eternal flood, whose restless waves Roll onward in their course, as wild and free, As if the shores ...
Hope is the shadowy essence of a wish, A fond desire which floats before our eyes;With lurid aberration, feverish,-- We ...
So long estranged from every Muse's lyre,And groveling in the tangled net of Care;What powerful breath shall kindle up that ...
The fruits are ripe, dipped in fire,Cooked and sampled on earth. And there's a law,That things crawl off in the ...
Ill fares the heart, when hope has fled; When vanishes each prospect fair,When the last flickering ray has sped, And ...
Rose of Lancaster.Her downcast eyes are bent on earth,On her wild harp one lily armRested - then swept the trembling ...
MUTE, sightless visitant, From what uncharted world Hast voyaged into Life's rude sea, With guidance scant; As if some ...
The breakers dash, the breakers boom, Upon the beaches ceaselessly; Beyond the line of flying spume Stretch weltering ...
Now infant nature, just awaking, lies Warm in the hollow of thy matron lap, O dove-eyed Spring, and doubt might ...
Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain, Where smiling spring its earliest ...
WHAT various ways in which a thing is told Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold; In stories we invention ...
I Thou who hast made thy dwelling fair With flowers beneath, above with starry lights, And set thine altars everywhere,-- ...
Black milk of daybreak we drink it at sundown we drink it at noon in the morning we drink it ...
When the white flame in us is gone, And we that lost the world's delight Stiffen in darkness, left alone ...
Maid of Athens, ere we part, Give, oh, give back my heart! Or, since that has left my breast, Keep ...
In measured verse I'll now rehearse The charms of lovely Anna: And, first, her mind is unconfined Like any vast ...
1 A CALIFORNIA song! A prophecy and indirection-a thought impalpable, to breathe, as air; A chorus of dryads, fading, departing-or ...
How gracefully, O man, with thy palm-bough, Upon the waning century standest thou, In proud and noble manhood's prime, With ...
When love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates; When ...
If to be absent were to be Away from thee; Or that when I am gone, You or I were ...
Amarantha, sweet and fair, Ah, braid no more that shining hair! As my curious hand or eye Hovering round thee, ...
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