Metabole. (Alfred Castner King Poems)
AN APOSTROPHE TO THE MOON.O, silvery moon, fair mistress of the night,Thou mellow, ever vaccilating orb,How many eons of unmeasured ...
Alfred Castner King Poems (57 Poems)
Grandeur. (Alfred Castner King Poems)
I stood at sunrise, on the topmost partOf lofty mountain, massively sublime;A pinnacle of trachyte, seamed and scarredBy countless generations' ...
Echoes From Galilee. (Alfred Castner King Poems)
What means this gathering multitude, Upon thy shores, O, Galilee,As various as the billows rude That sweep thy ever restless ...
Humanity’s Stream. (Alfred Castner King Poems)
I stood upon a crowded thoroughfare,Within a city's confines, where were metAll classes and conditions, and surveyed,From a secluded niche ...
The Legend Of St. Regimund. (Alfred Castner King Poems)
St. Regimund, e'er he became a saint,Was much imbued with vulgar earthly taint;E'er he renounced the honors of a KnightAnd ...
In Mortem Meditare. (Alfred Castner King Poems)
DYING THOUGHTS.As Life's receding sunset fades And night descends,I calmly watch the gathering shades,As darkness stealthily invades ...
Hope. (Alfred Castner King Poems)
Hope is the shadowy essence of a wish, A fond desire which floats before our eyes;With lurid aberration, feverish,-- We ...
From A Saxon Legend. (Alfred Castner King Poems)
Within a vale in distant Saxony, In time uncertain, though 'twas long ago.There dwelt a woman, most unhappily, From borrowed ...
The Unknowable. (Alfred Castner King Poems)
O! Sun, resplendent in the smiling morn, As thou dost view the wastes of earth and sky,Canst thou behold the ...
Life’s Undercurrent. (Alfred Castner King Poems)
Within the precincts of a hospital, I wandered in a sympathetic mood;Where face to face with wormwood and with gall, ...
The Silvery San Juan. (Alfred Castner King Poems)
Wherever I wander, my spirit still dwells,In the silvery San Juan with its streamlet and dells;Whose mountainous summits, so rugged ...
The Miner. (Alfred Castner King Poems)
Clink! Clink! Clink! The song of the hammer and drill!At the sound of the whistle so shrill and clear,He must ...
The Valley Of The San Miguel. (Alfred Castner King Poems)
In the golden West, by fond Nature blest, Lies a vale which my heart holds dear;Where the zephyr blows from ...
The Suicide. (Alfred Castner King Poems)
What anguish rankled 'neath that silent breast? What spectral figures mocked those staring eyes, Luring them on to Stygian mysteries?What ...
The Nations Peril. (Alfred Castner King Poems)
I fear the palace of the rich, I fear the hovel of the poor;Though fortified by moat and ditch, The ...
The Fallen Tree. (Alfred Castner King Poems)
I passed along a mountain road, Which led me through a wooded glen,Remote from dwelling or abode And ordinary haunts ...
Suggested By A Mountain Eagle. (Alfred Castner King Poems)
I gazed at the azure-hued mantle of heaven, The measureless depths of ethereal space;I gazed at the clouds, so invisibly ...
Despair. (Alfred Castner King Poems)
Ill fares the heart, when hope has fled; When vanishes each prospect fair,When the last flickering ray has sped, And ...
As The Shifting Sands Of The Desert. (Alfred Castner King Poems)
As the shifting sands of the desert Are born by the simoon's wrath,And in wanton and fleet confusion, Are strewn ...
Fame. (Alfred Castner King Poems)
There is a cliff, no matter where, Which softened by the agenciesOf rain, exposure to the air, And alternating thaw ...
Mother.–Alpha And Omega. (Alfred Castner King Poems)
Mother! Mother! The startled cry of childish fright Rang through the silence of the night, As but the mother's fond ...
Nature’s Lullaby. (Alfred Castner King Poems)
A MOUNTAIN NOCTURNEIn forest shade my couch is made. And there I calmly lie,With thought confined in pensive mind, And ...
Smiles. (Alfred Castner King Poems)
There is the warm, congenial smile, Benign, and honest, too,Free from deception, fraud, and guile; The smile of friendship true.There ...
In Deo Fides. (Alfred Castner King Poems)
Almighty God! Supreme! Most High! Before Thy throne, in reverence, we kneel;We cannot realize Thine infinity; Beholding not, we can ...
Reflections. (Alfred Castner King Poems)
On the margin of a lakelet, In a rugged mountain clime,Where precipice and pinnacle Of countenance sublime,Cast their weird, austere ...
Hidden Sorrows. (Alfred Castner King Poems)
For some the river of life would seem Free from the shallow, the reef, or bar,As they gently glide down ...
The Darker Side. (Alfred Castner King Poems)
They say that all nature is smiling and gay, And the birds the most happy of all,But the sparrow, pursued ...
Nature’s Child. (Alfred Castner King Poems)
I love to tread the solitudes,The forests and the trackless woods,Where nature, undisturbed by man,Pursues her voluntary plan.Where nature's chemistry ...
A Reverie. (Alfred Castner King Poems)
O, tomb of the pastWhere buried hopes lie,In my visions I seeThy phantoms pass by!A form, long departed, Before me ...
Thoughts. (Alfred Castner King Poems)
I dug a grave, one smiling April day, A grave whose small proportions testifiedTo empty arms, and playthings put away, ...