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 ...
A Legend of Schloss Forst, near MeranPROLOGUEOswald von Wolkenstein, the Last of the Minnesingers, loved a beautifulwoman, named Sabina, who ...
The son of a Japanese lord am I,--A Prince of the olden time;My hair is white, though black as nightIn ...
Hear the singing on the boats,As they halt beside the pier!Ah, those fresh Italian throats, How they cheer!Yet the words they ...
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 ...
Were you ever told the legend oldOf the birth of storms at sea?You should hear the tale in a Channel ...
Poor, little bird! the chase is ended;No longer hast thou cause for fear;Within these walls thou art befriended;No sportsmen can ...
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 ...
Within a home for captive beastsWhose world had dwindled to a cage,I noted in their mournful eyesSuch resignation, fear, and ...
Shrine of my mind, my Library!Each morn I greet thee with delight,When, soul-refreshed, I bring to theeThe benediction of the ...
O Buddha, of the mystic smileAnd downcast, dreamful eyes,To whom unnumbered sacred shrinesAnd gilded statues rise,Whose fanes are filled with ...
Up and down in my garden fair,Under the trellis where grapes will bloom,With the breath of violets in the air,As ...
_Youth_ dreams of all the years shall hold,--Of poems writ, of battles won,Of statues made, of love, of gold,And honors, ...
It stands where darkly wooded cliffsSlope swiftly to the deep,And silvery streams from ledge to ledgeIn foaming splendor leap,--A broad ...
I take their hands with placid smileAnd words which social rules enforce,Though sadly conscious all the whileOf something very like ...
By Lake Como's sylvan shore, Where the wavelets evermoreSeem to rhythmically murmur of the classic days of yore, Cease, O boatman, now ...
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 ...
The breath of summer stirs the trees,A thousand roses round me bloom,Whose saffron petals give the breezeA wealth of exquisite ...
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 ...
on receipt of his picture and that of his baby in his arms.Far from the great lake's pride, Over the ocean ...
Shut out the World, shut in the Home!The sea is deeper than its foam;Retain the gem, reject the paste;Withdraw from ...
'Tis not in the bitterest woes of lifeThat the love of friends, as a rule, grows cold;Still less does it ...
O pallid spectre of the midnight skies,Whose phantom features in the dome of NightElude the keenest gaze of wistful eyes,Till ...
Written for a Golden Wedding, 1883Just fifty years ago to-night, When earth was mantled deep with snow,The stars beheld with tender ...
I woke from dreams of rare delightAnd visions of a joyous land,Where loved ones, long since lost to sight,Walked blithely ...
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 ...
Spirit of solitude, silence, and rest,Take me once more, like a child, to your breast!Weary of worldliness, turmoil, and hate,Welcome ...
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 ...
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