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 ...
'Twas sunset in Jerusalem; the lightStill lingered on the city's walls, and crownedMount Olivet with splendor, while below,Among the trees ...
The son of a Japanese lord am I,--A Prince of the olden time;My hair is white, though black as nightIn ...
Sweet garden, wreathed in fruits and flowers,And domed by blue Tyrolean skies,Within thy rose-encircled bowers,Secluded from all curious eyes,I find ...
From Lake Como's depths ascending,With embankments steepStands a wooded headland, bendingWith majestic sweepTill its rugged shores, expanding,Join two charming bays,Now, ...
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 ...
On the classic shore of Como,'Neath a headland steep and bold,Which, though leaden at the dawning,In the sunset turns to ...
_Youth_ dreams of all the years shall hold,--Of poems writ, of battles won,Of statues made, of love, of gold,And honors, ...
Belov'd Meran, supremely fair!With joy I greet thy peaks anew,And quaff again the crystal airThat fills thy snow-rimmed bowl of ...
Here ends at last the Inland Sea!Still seems its outlet, as of yore,The anteroom of Mystery,As, through its westward-facing door,I ...
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 ...
THE FAUNWithin my garden's silence and seclusion,In pensive beauty gazing toward the dawn,There stands, mid vines and flowers in profusion, A ...
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 ...
Through the marble gates of Ostia,Where the Tiber meets the sea,And a hundred Roman galleysStrain their leashes to be free,Streams ...
O goddess of that Grecian isle Whose shores the blue Aegean laves,Whose cliffs repeat with answering smile Their features in its sun-kissed ...
Beside my garden's ivied wall,Enwreathed in vines of gold and green,I stand, as evening shadows fall,And marvel at the matchless ...
The breath of summer stirs the trees,A thousand roses round me bloom,Whose saffron petals give the breezeA wealth of exquisite ...
'Tis not in the bitterest woes of lifeThat the love of friends, as a rule, grows cold;Still less does it ...
In Bordighera's groves of palmI linger at the close of day,And watch, beyond the ocean's calm,A range of mountains far ...
How can my vineyard's charm be told,As it basks in the autumn haze?The Frost King's touch, so light and cold,Like ...
From the bitter fight I have made my wayTo the peaceful crest of a lonely hill,But the noise and heat ...
Breathe on my soul your everlasting calm,Majestic mountains, passionless and cold!Give to my spirit, drooping 'neath the palm,The rugged strength ...
Urge me no more! The mid-day toil is ended,And shadows lengthen from the radiant west;The glowing sun, with sumptuous clouds ...
To my hand thou com'st at last,Wand of ebon, tipped with gold,--Often carried in the pastBy a hand that now ...
The vintage time is gone, but not its glory;The grapes are garnered from their leafy gloom;Yet miles of vineyards, story ...
Beyond the blue-robed, sleeping lake,I watch the flush of morning rise,While birds and flowers once more wake,To share with me ...
From Como's curving base of blue,To where the snow lies cold and clear,Ascends in steps of varied hueThe pageant of ...
Once more I watch the crystal stream I watched in days gone by;Once more its waves reflect the gleam Of Autumn's sunset ...
The wind is roaring down the lake,The clear, cold moon rides high,The mountains, crystal to their crests,Indent the starlit sky;The ...
Behind a laughing waterfallThere lies a little fount of tears,Deep, dark, and rarely seen at allBy those the sparkling torrent ...
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