Had I But Known (James Brunton Stephens Poems)
I loved thee! Ah, those vows of love,So fondly made, so soon unmade!I trusted thee all men above-Ah, fatal trust, ...
I loved thee! Ah, those vows of love,So fondly made, so soon unmade!I trusted thee all men above-Ah, fatal trust, ...
"Why weepest thou, O twilight gray,In unavailing sorrow?""Alas, I've lost a yesterdayAnd ne'er shall find a morrow. (John Bannister Tabb)
Fair land! of chivalry the old domain,Land of the vine and olive, lovely Spain!Though not for thee with classic shores ...
WAINAMOINEN AND YOUKAHAINEN.Wainamoinen, ancient minstrel,Passed his years in full contentment,On the meadows of Wainola,On the plains of Kalevala,Singing ever wondrous ...
Heroes of elder days! untaught to yield,Who bled for Spain on many an ancient field;Ye, that around the oaken cross ...
THE BRIDE'S FAREWELL.When the marriage was completed,When the many guests had feasted,At the wedding of the Northland,At the Dismal-land carousal,Spake ...
THE FATE OF AINO.When the night had passed, the maiden,Sister fair of Youkahainen,Hastened early to the forest,Birchen shoots for brooms ...
A weary waste of blank and barren land,A lonely, lonely sea of shifting sand,A golden furnace gleaming overhead,Scorching the blue ...
In a valley of this restles mindI sought in mountain and in mead,Trusting a true love for to find.Upon an ...
Over the camp-firesDrank I with heroes,Under the Donau bank,Warm in the snow trench:Sagamen heard I there,Men of the Longbeards,Cunning and ...
IVirgin of the vestal flame, Numa's child so chaste and fair,Ah! Floronia is thy name! Goddess of the raven hair;Weepest ...
Come, gentle Dian, show thy crescent inThe sea of fading light that floods the west:Sit, like a white swan on ...
PILGRIM, who toilest up life's weary steep, To reach the summit still with pleasure crowned;Born but to sigh and ...
The garden beds I wandered by One bright and cheerful morn, When I found a new-fledged butterfly, ...
The seraphs would sing to her And from the River Dip her cool grails of radiant Life. ...
Translated From The German of Schiller.THE oak-wood murmurs, The sky clouds o'er, The maiden paces The grassy shore; The billows ...
Mother, why weepest thou ever For my little sister fair?She is now in heaven's kingdom-- Ah, it must be wondrous ...
The south-wind brings Life, sunshine, and desire, And on every mount and meadow Breathes aromatic fire, But over the dead ...
HAIL, sister springs, Parents of silver-footed rills! Ever bubbling things, Thawing crystal, snowy hills! Still spending, never spent; I mean ...
AY, 'twas here, on this spot, In that summer of yore, Atalanta did not Vote my presence a bore, Nor ...
With saddest music all day long She soothed her secret sorrow: At night she sighed "I fear 'twas wrong Such ...
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