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 Fairness (36 Poems)
A Story Of The Sea (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Were you ever told the legend oldOf the birth of storms at sea?You should hear the tale in a Channel ...
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 ...
Youth And Age (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
"I will gain a fortune," the young man cried;"For Gold by the world is deified;Hence, whether the means be foul ...
Point Balbianello (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
From Lake Como's depths ascending,With embankments steepStands a wooded headland, bendingWith majestic sweepTill its rugged shores, expanding,Join two charming bays,Now, ...
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 Postern Gate (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
I chose me a lovely garden,Beneath whose ivied wallA lake's blue wavelets murmurAs evening shadows fall,--A garden, whose leafy windowsFrame ...
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 ...
At Sunset (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Belov'd Meran, supremely fair!With joy I greet thy peaks anew,And quaff again the crystal airThat fills thy snow-rimmed bowl of ...
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 ...
Delio Patri (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Once more Lake Como's storied isle Reveals the Roman past!Again a stone of classic style The spade hath upward cast;How can such ...
The Outcasts (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
The smile of God was in the air;Enwreathed in veils of silvery hue,The valley lay, divinely fair,Beneath a cloudless vault ...
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 ...
Under The Stars (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
The breath of summer stirs the trees,A thousand roses round me bloom,Whose saffron petals give the breezeA wealth of exquisite ...
The Passing Moon (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
In my loggia bright I watch to-nightThe full moon sailing by;From a crystal creek in a glaciered peakIt slipped to ...
At The villa Of The Emperor Frederick III At San Remo (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
San Remo's palms in beauty stand Beside the storied sea,Where azure band and golden sand Are wedded ceaselessly;For from the deep, which ...
To Hon. Jesse Holdom Of Chicago, (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
on receipt of his picture and that of his baby in his arms.Far from the great lake's pride, Over the ocean ...
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 ...
Friendship (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
'Tis not in the bitterest woes of lifeThat the love of friends, as a rule, grows cold;Still less does it ...
The Pagan Past (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
What sylvan god was worshipped here?What nymph once made this grove her home,And bathed within its fountain clear,When Caesar ruled ...
To The “Ring Nebula” (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
O pallid spectre of the midnight skies,Whose phantom features in the dome of NightElude the keenest gaze of wistful eyes,Till ...
Personally Addressed (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Written for a Golden Wedding, 1883Just fifty years ago to-night, When earth was mantled deep with snow,The stars beheld with tender ...
Solitude (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Had I but lived when music-loving PanStill played his flute amid the whispering reeds,When through Arcadian groves the dryads ran,And--symbolizing ...
Passing And Permanent (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Stately boats, with happy crowds, Passing up the lake,Leaving, under sunset clouds, Jewels in your wake,From my garden's sheltered strand I can watch ...
January In The Tremezzina (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Day by day, As if in May,We sail Azzano's beautiful bay; High and low The mountains showLuminous fields of stainless snow,But the air ...
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 ...
Contentment (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Urge me no more! The mid-day toil is ended,And shadows lengthen from the radiant west;The glowing sun, with sumptuous clouds ...
In My Pergola (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Beyond the blue-robed, sleeping lake,I watch the flush of morning rise,While birds and flowers once more wake,To share with me ...
Autonomy (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Stand forth, my soul, and take thine own!Though all should blame thee, have no fear!Self-poised and steadfast, dare aloneThy self-elected ...