To the Ideal. Prefatory Poem to The Pilgrims of the Rhine (Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Poems)
I. Like the sweet Naiad of the Grecian's dreams,A Spirit born of Song — unseen, all-seeing—Lives deep within our dark ...
I. Like the sweet Naiad of the Grecian's dreams,A Spirit born of Song — unseen, all-seeing—Lives deep within our dark ...
Trembling Creation's omnipresent sun,Immanent Harmonist, Whose rhythms run.Alike where midge pursues his swift romance,Or grave stars cluster for their midnight ...
Of Peter's daughter, it is said, men told,While yet she breathed, a tale as sad as life,As sweet as death; ...
Returning in the autumn days From what to us were ...
Yet do not thou forsake me now, Poesy, with Peace-together!Ere this last disastrous blowDid lay my struggling fortunes low,In ...
WHAT lapse or accident of timeCan dull that soul's sonorous chimeWhich owns the priceless heritage -Youth's summer warmth in wintry ...
I know a vale where I would go one day,When June comes back and all the world once moreIs glad ...
A song for the death-day of the brave A song of pride!The youth went down to a hero's grave, ...
Stuffed with tradition and trammels of yore, Cramped in their studies, they sneer and scoldAt the strange, new passions young ...
If one might live ten years among the leaves,Ten-only ten-of all a life's long day,Who would not choose a childhood ...
THIS is a day the Lord hath made."--Thus spake The good religious heart, unstained, unworn, Watching the golden glory of ...
Leafy-with-love banks and the green waters of the canal Pouring redemption for me, that I do The will of God, ...
LACON. For a kiss or two, confess, What doth cause this pensiveness, Thou most lovely neat-herdess? Why so lonely on ...
`You know Orion always comes up sideways. Throwing a leg up over our fence of mountains, And rising on his ...
(The Dry Salvages-presumably les trois sauvages-is a small group of rocks, with a beacon, off the N.E. coast of Cape ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
I. So, I shall see her in three days And just one night, but nights are short, Then two long ...
A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of ...
'O DREARY life,' we cry, ' O dreary life ! ' And still the generations of the birds Sing through ...
The heavenly bay, ringed round with cliffs and moors, Storm-stained ravines, and crags that lawns inlay, Soothes as with love ...
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