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 Sadness (34 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 ...
Japan,–Old And New (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
The son of a Japanese lord am I,--A Prince of the olden time;My hair is white, though black as nightIn ...
Discouragement (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
"Forward, comrades, ever forward"!Shout the leaders in the fight;"Scale the ramparts! Plant the standardOn the citadel of light!"Break the chains ...
Leo (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
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 ...
My Garden (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
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 ...
Star Drift (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
The glaring sun hath ceased to shine;The solemn stars invade the sky;Again the welcome night is mine,Wherein to view the ...
On The Palentine (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
I tread the vast deserted stageWhereon the Caesars lived and died;The relics of Rome's golden ageLie strewn about me far ...
Point Balbianello (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
From Lake Como's depths ascending,With embankments steepStands a wooded headland, bendingWith majestic sweepTill its rugged shores, expanding,Join two charming bays,Now, ...
The Butterfly (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
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 ...
The Postern Gate (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
I chose me a lovely garden,Beneath whose ivied wallA lake's blue wavelets murmurAs evening shadows fall,--A garden, whose leafy windowsFrame ...
In A Columbarium (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
The autumn sun still bravely streamsAlong the tomb-girt Appian Way,And warms the heart of one who dreamsOf all its splendor ...
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 ...
Villa Pliniana (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
It stands where darkly wooded cliffsSlope swiftly to the deep,And silvery streams from ledge to ledgeIn foaming splendor leap,--A broad ...
The Pillars Of Hercules (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
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 ...
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 ...
The Death Of Antoninus Pius (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Through the marble gates of Ostia,Where the Tiber meets the sea,And a hundred Roman galleysStrain their leashes to be free,Streams ...
The Unforgotten Heroes (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Hark! how the Orient's bells are proclaiming Obsequies strange to the shrines of the west--Services Christendom's cruelties shaming-- Taught by the merciful, ...
Under The Stars (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
The breath of summer stirs the trees,A thousand roses round me bloom,Whose saffron petals give the breezeA wealth of exquisite ...
At The villa Of The Emperor Frederick III At San Remo (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
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 ...
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 ...
Retirement (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Spirit of solitude, silence, and rest,Take me once more, like a child, to your breast!Weary of worldliness, turmoil, and hate,Welcome ...
In November (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Under my trees of green and goldI stroll in the soft, autumnal days,With never a hint of winter's cold,Though the ...
To The Walking-Stick Of My Dead Friend (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
To my hand thou com'st at last,Wand of ebon, tipped with gold,--Often carried in the pastBy a hand that now ...
My Lost Friends (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
One by one they have slipped from Earth,And vanished into the depths of space,And I, beside my lonely hearth,Find none ...
Autumn In Meran (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
The vintage time is gone, but not its glory;The grapes are garnered from their leafy gloom;Yet miles of vineyards, story ...
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 ...
One More (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
With a smile and a kiss he went away;At the gate he turned and waved his hand,Then plunged once more ...