The Poet Orders His Sepulchre (John Jay Chapman Poems)
(After Ronsard)YE caverns, and ye rillsThat from the beetling hillsDown every rocky wallGlide, gleam, and fall;Ye woods and streams around,Where ...
(After Ronsard)YE caverns, and ye rillsThat from the beetling hillsDown every rocky wallGlide, gleam, and fall;Ye woods and streams around,Where ...
(Reprinted from "The Political Nursery," midsummer number, 1898)AT midnight Death dismissed the chancellor,But left the soul of Bismarck on his ...
AGAIN we gather here,Beneath the aegis of a sacred name,To hold our feast, and with our altar-flameSignal the passage of ...
I SEE-within my spirit-mystic walls,And slender windows casting hallowed lightAlong dim aisles where many a shadow fallsOn text and trophy, ...
SORROW, that watches while the body sleeps,Parted the curtains of the cruel dawnAnd glided noiselessly to her sad seatBeside my ...
ALL is one issue, every skirmish tells,And war is but the picture in the story;The plot's below: from time to ...
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