Rachel (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
'Twas sunset in Jerusalem; the lightStill lingered on the city's walls, and crownedMount Olivet with splendor, while below,Among the trees ...
John Lawson Stoddard Poems on Faces (25 Poems)
Tripoli (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Hear the singing on the boats,As they halt beside the pier!Ah, those fresh Italian throats, How they cheer!Yet the words they ...
The Old Carrier (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
("Old Lucia", who for many years walked back and forth, every day and inall weathers, between Azzano and Menaggio, a ...
Star Drift (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
The glaring sun hath ceased to shine;The solemn stars invade the sky;Again the welcome night is mine,Wherein to view the ...
The Butterfly (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
I watched to-day a butterfly,With gorgeous wings of golden sheen,Flit lightly 'neath a sapphire skyAmid the springtime's tender green;--A creature ...
The Silver Herons (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Within a home for captive beastsWhose world had dwindled to a cage,I noted in their mournful eyesSuch resignation, fear, and ...
My “Promenade Solitaire” (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Up and down in my garden fair,Under the trellis where grapes will bloom,With the breath of violets in the air,As ...
Reincarnation (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
I know not how, I know not where,But from my own heart's mystic loreI feel that I have breathed this ...
The Gift Of Juno (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Already 'neath the morning starThe shrine, by Juno's favor blest,Had flashed its whiteness from afar,Resplendent on a mountain's crest,Along whose ...
Beside Lake Como (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
THE FAUNWithin my garden's silence and seclusion,In pensive beauty gazing toward the dawn,There stands, mid vines and flowers in profusion, A ...
To The Venus Of Melos (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
O goddess of that Grecian isle Whose shores the blue Aegean laves,Whose cliffs repeat with answering smile Their features in its sun-kissed ...
The Cascade (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
From the mountain gray It has made its wayTo my garden green and cool, And there, from the edge Of a rocky ledgeLeaps ...
Sunset At Interlaken (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
The sun is low; Yon peak of snowIs reddening 'neath the sunset glow; The rosy light Makes richly brightThe Jungfrau's veil of snowy ...
To The Sphinx (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
O sleepless Sphinx! Thy sadly patient eyes,Forever gazing o'er the shifting sands,Have watched Earth's countless dynasties arise,Stalk forth like spectres waving ...
At Hochfinstermunz (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Once more between its walls of pinesI see the long ravine expandTo where the ice-world's crystal linesDefine the realm of ...
To The Portrait Of Napoleon, As First Consul (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Brilliant as Lucifer, Son of the Morning,Rises this reincarnation of Mars!Youth at its apogee, precedent scorning,Genius ascending its path toward ...
In A Modern City (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Dreary fog and drizzling sleet,And a lamp-lit track of slime;Phantoms dim in the misty street,Vanishing, streaked with grime;Overhead in a ...
Out Of the Ranks (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
From the bitter fight I have made my wayTo the peaceful crest of a lonely hill,But the noise and heat ...
To The Countess Guiccioli, After Reading Her “Recollections Of Lord Byron” (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Like one who, homeward bound from distant lands,Describes strange climes and visions passing fair,Yet deftly hides from others' eyes and ...
Mesalliance (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
With gentle manners, winsome face,And forehead fit to wear a crown,How brilliant might have been her place,Had she not mated ...
Day And Night (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Twilight is falling on lake and on land,Softly the wavelets steal in to the strand,Fisher-boats, floating like sea-gulls at rest,Glow ...
Tout Passe (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Once more I watch the crystal stream I watched in days gone by;Once more its waves reflect the gleam Of Autumn's sunset ...
On The Promenade (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
O joyous idler in the sun,In pity slacken here thy pace!A lad, whose course is nearly run,Is watching thee with ...
Stream And Sea (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
A river flowed through a desert landOn its way to find the sea,And saw naught else than glaring sandAnd scarcely ...
Post Nubes Lux (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Sink, sullen rear-guard of the storm,Behind the Laugen's snowy crest!Already Rotheck's lordly formStands spotless in the radiant west;Blow, winter wind, ...