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 ...
Anne C Lynch Poems (89 Poems)
Byron Among The Ruins Of Greece (Anne C Lynch Poems)
On what sweet shore the blue AEgean laves, Where loveliness is wedded to decay, -- Beauty to desolation, -- 'mid ...
Science (Anne C Lynch Poems)
Darkness sat brooding o'er the infant world, That in chaotic gloom and silence lay, Till from the throne of Light ...
Nightfall In Hungary (Anne C Lynch Poems)
As when the sun in darkness sets, And night falls on the earth,Along the azure fields above The stars of ...
To The Sun (Anne C Lynch Poems)
Thou glorious lamp of Space! Thou that dost flood The void of heaven with brightness! in thy glow Unnumbered worlds, ...
On The Death Of A Friend (Anne C Lynch Poems)
There was no bell to peal thy funeral dirge, No nodding plumes to wave above thy bier, No shroud to ...
Day-Dawn In Italy (Anne C Lynch Poems)
Italia! in thy bleeding heart, I thought, e'en hope was dead;That from thy scarred and prostrate form, The spark of ...
Webster (Anne C Lynch Poems)
When I and all those that hear me shall have gone to our last home, andwhen the mould may have ...
Written At Tivoli Falls, (Near Albany) (Anne C Lynch Poems)
Sweet Tivoli! upon thy grassy side, Whene'er I linger through the summer day, And the soft music of thy ...
The Wasted Fountains (Anne C Lynch Poems)
When the fitful fever of the soul Is awakened in thee first;And thou goest like Judah's children forth, To slake ...
The Image Broken (Anne C Lynch Poems)
'Twas but a dream; a fond and foolish dream; The calenture of a delirious brain,Whose fever thirst creates the rushing ...
Paul Preaching At Athens (Anne C Lynch Poems)
Greece! hear that joyful sound,A stranger's voice upon thy sacred hill;Whose tones shall bid the slumbering nations round, ...
The Ideal (Anne C Lynch Poems)
A sad, sweet dream; it fell upon my soul When song and thought first woke their echoes there,Swaying my spirit ...
Image Worship (Anne C Lynch Poems)
Why mounts my blood to cheek and brow, Like an ascending flame,Whene'er from careless lips I hear The accents of ...
To The Memory Of Channing (Anne C Lynch Poems)
Those spirits God ordained,To stand the watchmen on the outer wall,Upon whose souls the beams of truth first fall; They ...
The Ideal Found (Anne C Lynch Poems)
I've met thee, whom I dared not hope to meet, Save in the enchanted land of my day-dreams:Yes, in this ...
On Seeing Mrs. Kean As Constance In King John (Anne C Lynch Poems)
'Twas no illusion; from the Past the veil was rent away;The tide that never changes ebbed, and bore me to ...
Bones In The Desert (Anne C Lynch Poems)
Where pilgrims seek the Prophet's tomb Across the Arabian waste,Upon the ever-shifting sands, A fearful path is traced.Far up to ...
Requiem (Anne C Lynch Poems)
To what bright world afar didst thou belong, Thou whose pure soul seemed not of mortal birth?From what fair clime ...
Eros (Anne C Lynch Poems)
As when untaught and blind,To the mute stone the pagan bows his knee,Spirit of Love! phantom of my own mind! ...
Lines To Frederika Bremer (Anne C Lynch Poems)
Hereafter, when I no more belong to earth, I should love to return to it as a spirit, and impart ...
The Earth To The Sun (Anne C Lynch Poems)
Oh Sun! oh glorious Sun!The spell of winter binds me strong and dreadIn the dark sleep, the coldness of the ...
Christ Betrayed (Anne C Lynch Poems)
Eighteen hundred years agoneWas that deed of darkness done --Was that sacred, thorn-crowned headTo a shameful death betrayed,And Iscariot's traitor ...
Books For The People (Anne C Lynch Poems)
Let there be light. Light to the darkened mindBear, like the sun, the world's wide circle round,Bright messengers ...
To A Friend, On Being Asked To Write Some Verses (Anne C Lynch Poems)
I thought the Soul of Song had made This heart of mine her sepulchre;For all her golden dreams had fled, ...
An Imitation (Anne C Lynch Poems)
As once I dreamed, methought I strayedWithin a snow-clad mountain's shade;From whose far height the silence boreOne charm?d word, "Excelsior!"And, ...
A Farewell To Ole Bull (Anne C Lynch Poems)
There was a fountain in my heart Whose deeps had not been stirred;A thirst for music in my soul My ...
The Dumb Creation (Anne C Lynch Poems)
Deal kindly with those speechless ones, That throng our gladsome earth;Say not the bounteous gift of life Alone is nothing ...
To The Century Plant (Anne C Lynch Poems)
Plant of a hundred years! destroying Time Passes thy gentle race with hurrying trend, Leaves their bright petals colorless and ...
The Wounded Vulture (Anne C Lynch Poems)
A kingly vulture sat alone, Lord of the ruin round,Where Egypt's ancient monuments Upon the desert frowned.A hunter's eager eye ...