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 ...
A Legend of Schloss Forst, near MeranPROLOGUEOswald von Wolkenstein, the Last of the Minnesingers, loved a beautifulwoman, named Sabina, who ...
Hear the singing on the boats,As they halt beside the pier!Ah, those fresh Italian throats, How they cheer!Yet the words they ...
"Forward, comrades, ever forward"!Shout the leaders in the fight;"Scale the ramparts! Plant the standardOn the citadel of light!"Break the chains ...
I made a journey o'er the sea,I bade my faithful dog good-bye,I knew that he would grieve for me,But did ...
Were you ever told the legend oldOf the birth of storms at sea?You should hear the tale in a Channel ...
The glaring sun hath ceased to shine;The solemn stars invade the sky;Again the welcome night is mine,Wherein to view the ...
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 ...
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 ...
It stands where darkly wooded cliffsSlope swiftly to the deep,And silvery streams from ledge to ledgeIn foaming splendor leap,--A broad ...
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 ...
Through the marble gates of Ostia,Where the Tiber meets the sea,And a hundred Roman galleysStrain their leashes to be free,Streams ...
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 ...
Marble fragment, freed at lastFrom thy prison of the past,By a spade-thrust brought to lightAfter centuries of night,--Let me take ...
The sun is low; Yon peak of snowIs reddening 'neath the sunset glow; The rosy light Makes richly brightThe Jungfrau's veil of snowy ...
One night two lonely women metBeside a storm-swept bay;With tears their mournful eyes were wet,Their pale lips salt with spray;They ...
What sylvan god was worshipped here?What nymph once made this grove her home,And bathed within its fountain clear,When Caesar ruled ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Passing ships! Passing ships!The white foam sparkling at your lipsAnd countless jewels in your wakeProclaim your progress o'er the lake,While ...
One by one they have slipped from Earth,And vanished into the depths of space,And I, beside my lonely hearth,Find none ...
Dear, old-time tunes of prayer and praise,Heard first beside my mother's knee,Your music on my spirit laysA spell from which ...
Drifting, idly drifting, where thought's varied streamsMeet at last and mingle in the realm of dreams,Gladly would I join them ...
Twilight is falling on lake and on land,Softly the wavelets steal in to the strand,Fisher-boats, floating like sea-gulls at rest,Glow ...
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