William H. Herndon (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
There by the window in the old housePerched on the bluff, overlooking miles of valley,My days of labor closed, sitting ...
There by the window in the old housePerched on the bluff, overlooking miles of valley,My days of labor closed, sitting ...
What darkens, what darkens?-'t is heaven's high roof:What lightens?-'t is Heckla's flame, shooting aloof:The proud, the majestic, the rugged old ...
'Tis spring! the boats bound to the sea; The breezes, loitering kindly over The fields, again bring herds and ...
'T is spring! The boats bound to the sea; The breezes, loitering kindly overThe fields, again bring herds and men ...
About the Emperor's thumb revolving,Mouthed by Manchu's enamelled dragon;Upon the damasked barge, dissolvingWithin the deep Egyptian flagon;Downcast before the swine ...
In one great man we view with oddsA parallel to all the gods.Great Jove, that shook heaven with his brow,Could ...
O Sovereign power of love! O grief! O balm! All records, saving thine, come cool, and calm, And shadowy, through ...
ONCE I held a well-carved brimming goblet,-- In my two hands tightly clasp'd I held it, Eagerly the sweet wine ...
SOLICITED I've been to give a tale, In which (though true, decorum must prevail), The subject from a picture shall ...
THE worst of ills, with jealousy compared, Are trifling torments ev'ry where declared. IMAGINE, to yourself a silly fool, To ...
IN life oft ills from self-imprudence spring; As proof, Candaules' story we will bring; In folly's scenes the king was ...
WITH Pegasus upon a day, Apollo, weary flying, Through frosty hills the journey lay, On foot the way was plying. ...
Vulcan, contrive me such a cup As Nestor used of old; Show all thy skill to trim it up, Damask ...
A Vulcan and a Venus seldom part. A blacksmith never us'd to filinge art Beyond a lock and key, for ...
Hath Christmas furr'd your Chimneys, Or have the maides neglected, Doe Fire-balls droppe from your Chimney's toppe, The Pidgin is ...
Ah! happy he, upon whose birth each god Looks down in love, whose earliest sleep the bright Idalia cradles, whose ...
Before those cruel twins whom at one birth Incestuous Change bore to her father Time, Error and Truth, had hunted ...
1 On Hellespont, guilty of true love's blood, 2 In view and opposite two cities stood, 3 Sea-borderers, disjoin'd by ...
1 On Hellespont, guilty of true love's blood, 2 In view and opposite two cities stood, 3 Sea-borderers, disjoin'd by ...
There by the window in the old house Perched on the bluff, overlooking miles of valley, My days of labor ...
A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before The Earl Of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wales. The Persons The ATTENDANT ...
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