Monodies (Charles Harpur Poems)
I.I stand in thought beside my father's grave:The grave of one who, in his old age, diedToo late perhaps, since ...
I.I stand in thought beside my father's grave:The grave of one who, in his old age, diedToo late perhaps, since ...
Spirit of Dreams! When many a toilsome heightShut paradise from exiled Adam's sight,Two wedded powers were given thenceforth to strayOn ...
OR MELANCHOLY FATE OF CAPT. PIERCE AND HIS TWO DAUGHTERS. ETERNAL Power! who rul'st with sovereign willWho bid'st the tempest ...
The night-wind's shriek is pitiless and hollow, The boding bat flits by on sullen wing, And I sit ...
A CHILD of the hard-hearted world was I, And a worldling callous of heart,And eager to play with the ...
LAKE of the dead, I find not why This name is thine, from tale or song:Living are none who meet ...
WHO calleth? I am coming, I am coming, O'er the hills with a swift step, from dawn till gloaming, Pouring ...
Farewell, old playmate! on thy sandy shore My lingering feet will leave their print no more; To thy ...
The sea-bird's wing, o'er ocean's breast Shoots like a glancing star,While the red radiance of the west Spreads kindling fast ...
A dinner party, coffee, tea,Sandwich, or supper, all may beIn their way pleasant. But to meNot one of these deserves ...
A dinner party, coffee, tea,Sandwich, or supper, all may beIn their way pleasant. But to meNot one of these deserves ...
Stumps, and harsh rocks, and prostrate trunks all charred, And gnarled roots naked to the sun and rain,— They seem ...
ON THE PERUSAL OF HIS VOLUME OF TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR OF MEXICO.'Tis pleasant, lolling in our elbow-chair,Secure at home, ...
A golden circle for my lady's hand, Crowned with a ruby 'twixt the outspread wings Of that eternal globe which ...
THIS is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main,-- The venturous bark that flings On the ...
I. He was a Grecian lad, who coming home With pulpy figs and wine from Sicily Stood at his galley's ...
'Twas on a Mountain, near the Western Main An ALIEN dwelt. A solitary Hut Built on a jutting crag, o'erhung ...
There is never a wind to sing o'er the sea On its dimpled bosom that holdeth in fee Wealth of ...
Now Morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl, When Adam waked, so ...
High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind, Or where the ...
A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before The Earl Of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wales. The Persons The ATTENDANT ...
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