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 ...
"Forward, comrades, ever forward"!Shout the leaders in the fight;"Scale the ramparts! Plant the standardOn the citadel of light!"Break the chains ...
Were you ever told the legend oldOf the birth of storms at sea?You should hear the tale in a Channel ...
("Old Lucia", who for many years walked back and forth, every day and inall weathers, between Azzano and Menaggio, a ...
The glaring sun hath ceased to shine;The solemn stars invade the sky;Again the welcome night is mine,Wherein to view the ...
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 ...
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 ...
I know not how, I know not where,But from my own heart's mystic loreI feel that I have breathed this ...
Stately court of Fontainebleau,Nine and ninety years agoOn thy spacious esplanade,Ranged in formal dress parade,Stood the Emperor's grenadiersWith their bronzed ...
It stands where darkly wooded cliffsSlope swiftly to the deep,And silvery streams from ledge to ledgeIn foaming splendor leap,--A broad ...
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 ...
Beside my garden's ivied wall,Enwreathed in vines of gold and green,I stand, as evening shadows fall,And marvel at the matchless ...
From the mountain gray It has made its wayTo my garden green and cool, And there, from the edge Of a rocky ledgeLeaps ...
The breath of summer stirs the trees,A thousand roses round me bloom,Whose saffron petals give the breezeA wealth of exquisite ...
In my loggia bright I watch to-nightThe full moon sailing by;From a crystal creek in a glaciered peakIt slipped to ...
on receipt of his picture and that of his baby in his arms.Far from the great lake's pride, Over the ocean ...
The sun is low; Yon peak of snowIs reddening 'neath the sunset glow; The rosy light Makes richly brightThe Jungfrau's veil of snowy ...
She is seated by the riverIn a robe of spotless white,With her lovely face illuminedBy the evening's tender light;But her ...
Bound to the earth in its headlong flight,Whence and whither we do not know,Cleaving the awful void of nightWith frost ...
O pallid spectre of the midnight skies,Whose phantom features in the dome of NightElude the keenest gaze of wistful eyes,Till ...
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 ...
I opened the cage of my pet canary;Timid, it faltered a moment there,Then, at my call, became less wary,And blithely ...
To my hand thou com'st at last,Wand of ebon, tipped with gold,--Often carried in the pastBy a hand that now ...
One by one they have slipped from Earth,And vanished into the depths of space,And I, beside my lonely hearth,Find none ...
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