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 Joy & Excitement (19 Poems)
Oswald, The Minnesinger (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
A Legend of Schloss Forst, near MeranPROLOGUEOswald von Wolkenstein, the Last of the Minnesingers, loved a beautifulwoman, named Sabina, who ...
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 ...
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 ...
Before A Statue Of Buddha (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
O Buddha, of the mystic smileAnd downcast, dreamful eyes,To whom unnumbered sacred shrinesAnd gilded statues rise,Whose fanes are filled with ...
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 ...
Seclusion (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Shut out the World, shut in the Home!The sea is deeper than its foam;Retain the gem, reject the paste;Withdraw from ...
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 Statue Of The Empress Elizabeth. Meran (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
She is seated by the riverIn a robe of spotless white,With her lovely face illuminedBy the evening's tender light;But her ...
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 ...
Dreamland (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
I woke from dreams of rare delightAnd visions of a joyous land,Where loved ones, long since lost to sight,Walked blithely ...
The Home-Coming From Rome (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Make haste! There is but one more turning!The horses cannot go too fast,So eagerly our hearts are yearningTo see the ...
A May Monody (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Beside my opened window pane,Each morning in this month of MayA blackbird sings in dulcet strainTwo liquid notes, which seem ...
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-Day (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
"The sun will set at day's decline"; Qu'importe?Quaff off meanwhile life's sparkling wine!Of what avail are mournful fears,Foreboding sighs and idle ...
In Tenebris (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
All the lights have been extinguishedIn my closely-curtained room,Nothing now can be distinguishedIn the all-pervading gloom;And through darkness, so alluring,I ...
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, ...
To My Dead Dog (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
All is noiseless; Cold and voicelessLies the form I've oft caressed;Heedless now of blame or praises,'Neath the sunshine and the daisiesDear, ...