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 ...
Up and down in my garden fair,Under the trellis where grapes will bloom,With the breath of violets in the air,As ...
I know not how, I know not where,But from my own heart's mystic loreI feel that I have breathed this ...
By Acqua Fredda's cloister-wallI pause to feel the mountain breeze,And watch the shadows eastward fallFrom immemorial cypress trees.Like arms outstretched ...
Beside my garden's ivied wall,Enwreathed in vines of gold and green,I stand, as evening shadows fall,And marvel at the matchless ...
What sylvan god was worshipped here?What nymph once made this grove her home,And bathed within its fountain clear,When Caesar ruled ...
In Mantua in fettersThe faithful Hofer lay,Condemned by hostile soldiersTo die at break of day;Now bled his comrades' hearts in ...
Had I but lived when music-loving PanStill played his flute amid the whispering reeds,When through Arcadian groves the dryads ran,And--symbolizing ...
Beside my opened window pane,Each morning in this month of MayA blackbird sings in dulcet strainTwo liquid notes, which seem ...
Dear, old-time tunes of prayer and praise,Heard first beside my mother's knee,Your music on my spirit laysA spell from which ...
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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