A Vision of Poesy – Part 01 (Henry Timrod Poems)
IIn a far country, and a distant age,Ere sprites and fays had bade farewell to earth,A boy was born of ...
IIn a far country, and a distant age,Ere sprites and fays had bade farewell to earth,A boy was born of ...
You say, as one who shapes a life,That you will never be a wife,And, laughing lightly, ask my aidTo paint ...
While I reclineAt ease beneathThis immemorial pine,Small sphere!(By dusky fingers brought this morning hereAnd shown with boastful smiles),I turn thy ...
A fairy ringDrawn in the crimson of a battle-plain —From whose weird circle every loathsome thing And sight and sound of ...
IHath not the morning dawned with added light?And shall not evening call another starOut of the infinite regions of the ...
'Twas merry Christmas when he came,Our little boy beneath the sod;And brighter burned the Christmas flame,And merrier sped the Christmas ...
Shall I desist, twice baffled? Once by land,And once by sea, I fought and strove with storms,All shades of danger, ...
Not in a climate near the sunDid the cloud with its trailing fringes float,Whence, white as the down of an ...
I think that, next to your sweet eyes,And pleasant books, and starry skies, I love the world of flowers;Less for their ...
Is she not lovely! Oh! when, long ago,My own dead mother gazed upon my face,As I stood blushing near in bridal ...
My gentle friend! I hold no creed so falseAs that which dares to teach that we are bornFor battle only, ...
I should be dumb before thee, feathered sage!And gaze upon thy phiz with solemn awe,But for a most audacious wish ...
MOST men know love but as a part of life;They hide it in some corner of the breast,Even from themselves; ...
Why am I silent from year to year?Needs must I sing on these blue March days?What will you say, when ...
(Written on a very small sheet of note-paper)Were I the poet-laureate of the fairies,Who in a rose-leaf finds too broad ...
Most men know love but as a part of life;They hide it in some corner of the breast,Even from themselves; ...
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