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 ...
On what sweet shore the blue AEgean laves, Where loveliness is wedded to decay, -- Beauty to desolation, -- 'mid ...
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, ...
There was no bell to peal thy funeral dirge, No nodding plumes to wave above thy bier, No shroud to ...
When I and all those that hear me shall have gone to our last home, andwhen the mould may have ...
Greece! hear that joyful sound,A stranger's voice upon thy sacred hill;Whose tones shall bid the slumbering nations round, ...
Why mounts my blood to cheek and brow, Like an ascending flame,Whene'er from careless lips I hear The accents of ...
To what bright world afar didst thou belong, Thou whose pure soul seemed not of mortal birth?From what fair clime ...
As when untaught and blind,To the mute stone the pagan bows his knee,Spirit of Love! phantom of my own mind! ...
Let there be light. Light to the darkened mindBear, like the sun, the world's wide circle round,Bright messengers ...
A kingly vulture sat alone, Lord of the ruin round,Where Egypt's ancient monuments Upon the desert frowned.A hunter's eager eye ...
Oh, stern indeed must be that minstrel's heart, In the world's dusty highway doomed to move,Who with life's sunshine and ...
I see the sons of Genius rise The nobles of our land;And foremost in the gathering ranks I see the ...
A glorious vision burst On Europe's dazzled sight, Upon that day when first Columbia sprang to light; --When ...
Oh bard! what though upon thy mortal eyes There fell no glimmering ray of earthly light, And the deep shadow ...
In full-orbed splendor now the queen of Night, Among the stars walks in her pride of place,And how again we ...
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