The Mediterranean (Anne C Lynch Poems)
Hail! thou eternal flood, whose restless waves Roll onward in their course, as wild and free, As if the shores ...
Hail! thou eternal flood, whose restless waves Roll onward in their course, as wild and free, As if the shores ...
Darkness sat brooding o'er the infant world, That in chaotic gloom and silence lay, Till from the throne of Light ...
As when the sun in darkness sets, And night falls on the earth,Along the azure fields above The stars of ...
Thou glorious lamp of Space! Thou that dost flood The void of heaven with brightness! in thy glow Unnumbered worlds, ...
When the fitful fever of the soul Is awakened in thee first;And thou goest like Judah's children forth, To slake ...
Why mounts my blood to cheek and brow, Like an ascending flame,Whene'er from careless lips I hear The accents of ...
As when untaught and blind,To the mute stone the pagan bows his knee,Spirit of Love! phantom of my own mind! ...
There was a fountain in my heart Whose deeps had not been stirred;A thirst for music in my soul My ...
A kingly vulture sat alone, Lord of the ruin round,Where Egypt's ancient monuments Upon the desert frowned.A hunter's eager eye ...
Why should we weep for thee,Since thou hast gone unsullied back to heaven,No stain upon thy spirit's purity, ...
Where the dark primeval forests Rise against the western skyAnd "the Father of the Waters" In his strength goes rushing ...
I see the sons of Genius rise The nobles of our land;And foremost in the gathering ranks I see the ...
Heaven lies about us in our infancy.Sweet child of fairy land! since first I dwelt, with tearful eye,Upon the page ...
As some dark stream within a cavern's breast, Flows murmuring, moaning for the distant sun,So ere I met thee, murmuring ...
Oh bard! what though upon thy mortal eyes There fell no glimmering ray of earthly light, And the deep shadow ...
If the young mother clasp, for the first time, The mortal child that earthly love has given, With a deep ...
On the swift flying hours Another bright day,With its tears and its smiles, Has vanished away.Thou who dost number Our ...
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