To the Ideal. Prefatory Poem to The Pilgrims of the Rhine (Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Poems)
I. Like the sweet Naiad of the Grecian's dreams,A Spirit born of Song — unseen, all-seeing—Lives deep within our dark ...
I. Like the sweet Naiad of the Grecian's dreams,A Spirit born of Song — unseen, all-seeing—Lives deep within our dark ...
I."Through the summer day, through the weary day, We have glided long; Ere we speed to the Night through her ...
I.On thy couch of cloud reclined, Wake, O soft and sacred Wind! Soft and sacred will we name thee, Whosoe'er ...
I.The merry Loves one holiday Were all at gambols madly; But Loves too long can seldom play Without behaving sadly. ...
I.Like a Star in the seas above, Like a Dream to the waves of sleep— Up—up—THE INCARNATE LOVE— She rose ...
I.Who will assume the bays That the hero wore? Wreaths on the Tomb of Days Gone evermore! Who shall disturb ...
I.Buy my flowers — O buy — I pray! The blind girl comes from afar; If the earth be as ...
By the cool banks where soft Cephisus flows, A voice sail'd trembling down the waves of air; The leaves blushed ...
I.Farewell! O soul departed! Farewell! O sacred urn! Bereaved and broken-hearted, To earth the mourners turn. To the dim and ...
I.The moon on the Latmos mountain Her pining vigil keeps;And ever the silver fountain In the Dorian valley weeps. But ...
As the flight of a river That flows to the seaMy soul rushes ever In tumult to thee. ...
Loved alike by Air and Water Aye must be Thessalia's daughter; To us, Olympian hearts, are given Spells that draw ...
O'er the sad threshold, where the cypress bough Supplants the rose that should adorn thy home, On the last pilgrimage ...
I.By the glow-worm's lamp in the dewy brake; By the gossamer's airy net;By the shifting skin of the faithless snake, ...
Away with your stories of Hades, Which the Flamen has forged to affright us— We laugh at your three Maiden ...
From the woods and the glossy green, With the wild thyme strewn;From the rivers whose crisped sheen Is kissed by ...
I.It is not that our earlier Heaven Escapes its April showers, Or that to childhood's heart is given No snake ...
Around—about—for ever near thee, God—OUR GOD—shall mark and hear thee! On his car of storm He sweeps! Bow, ye heavens, ...
I.As the bark floateth on o'er the summer-lit sea, Floats my heart o'er the deeps of its passion for thee; ...
I.Hark! through these flowers our music sends its greeting To your loved halls, where Psilas shuns the day; When the ...
In the veins of the calix foams and glows The blood of the mantling vine, But oh! in the bowl ...
In the veins of the calix foams and glows The blood of the mantling vine, But oh! in the bowl ...
I.The Wind and the Beam loved the Rose, And the Rose loved one; For who recks the wind where it ...
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