The Luck of Edenhall. From The German Of Uhland (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
Of Edenhall, the youthful LordBids sound the festal trumpet's call.He rises at the banquet board,And cries, 'mid the drunken revellers ...
Of Edenhall, the youthful LordBids sound the festal trumpet's call.He rises at the banquet board,And cries, 'mid the drunken revellers ...
Have you read in the Talmud of old,In the Legends the Rabbins have told Of the limitless realms of the air,--Have ...
Simon Danz has come home again,From cruising about with his buccaneers;He has singed the beard of the King of Spain,And ...
I heard a voice, that cried,"Balder the BeautifulIs dead, is dead!"And through the misty airPassed like the mournful cryOf sunward ...
I have read, in some old, marvellous tale, Some legend strange and vague,That a midnight host of spectres pale Beleaguered the walls ...
Southward with fleet of ice Sailed the corsair Death;Wild and gast blew the blast, And the east-wind was his breath.His lordly ships ...
I stood upon the hills, when heaven's wide archWas glorious with the sun's returning march,And woods were brightened, and soft ...
He is dead, the beautiful youth,The heart of honor, the tongue of truth,He, the life and light of us all,Whose ...
An angel with a radiant face, Above a cradle bent to look,Seemed his own image there to trace, As in the waters ...
When the warm sun, that bringsSeed-time and harvest, has returned again,'T is sweet to visit the still wood, where springs The ...
I thought this Pen would ariseFrom the casket where it lies-- Of itself would arise and writeMy thanks and my surprise.When ...
She dwells by Great Kenhawa's side, In valleys green and cool;And all her hope and all her pride Are in the village ...
I sat by my window one night, And watched how the stars grew high;And the earth and skies were a splendid ...
Aspasie, trillistos. I heard the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her marble halls! I saw her sable skirts all fringed with ...
Here rest the weary oar! -- soft airs Breathe out in the o'erarching sky;And Night!-- sweet Night -- serenely wears A smile ...
Dead he lay among his books!The peace of God was in his looks.As the statues in the gloomWatch o'er Maximilian's ...
How I started up in the night, in the night, Drawn on without rest or reprieval!The streets, with their watchmen, were ...
There is a Reaper whose name is Death,And, with his sickle keen,He reaps the bearded grain at a breath,And the ...
A Youth, light-hearted and content, I wander through the worldHere, Arab-like, is pitched my tent And straight again is furled.Yet oft I ...
Gentle Spring! in sunshine clad,Well dost thou thy power display!For Winter maketh the light heart sad,And thou, thou makest the ...
Sweet babe! true portrait of thy father's face,Sleep on the bosom that thy lips have pressed!Sleep, little one; and closely, ...
The twilight is sad and cloudy, The wind blows wild and free,And like the wings of sea-birds Flash the white caps of ...
The old house by the lindens Stood silent in the shade,And on the gravelled pathway The light and shadow played.I saw the ...
Torrent of light and river of the air, Along whose bed the glimmering stars are seen Like gold and silver sands in ...
Four limpid lakes,--four NaiadesOr sylvan deities are these, In flowing robes of azure dressed;Four lovely handmaids, that upholdTheir shining mirrors, rimmed ...
Into the darkness and the hush of night Slowly the landscape sinks, and fades away, And with it fade the phantoms of ...
Lo! in the painted oriel of the West, Whose panes the sunken sun incarnadines, Like a fair lady at her casement, shines The ...
Allah gives light in darkness, Allah gives rest in pain,Cheeks that are white with weeping Allah paints red again.The flowers and the ...
I stand beneath the tree, whose branches shade Thy western window, Chapel of St. John! And hear its leaves repeat ...
Heard a voice, that cried, "Balder the Beautiful Is dead, is dead!" And through the misty air Passed like the ...
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