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 ...
John Lawson Stoddard Poems on Secrets (7 Poems)
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 ...
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 ...
Undine (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Spirit of Como, whose rhythmical callMurmurs caressingly under my wall,Why are thy feet, though the hour be late,Mounting the moon-silvered ...
To The Venus Of Melos (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
O goddess of that Grecian isle Whose shores the blue Aegean laves,Whose cliffs repeat with answering smile Their features in its sun-kissed ...
To The Sphinx (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
O sleepless Sphinx! Thy sadly patient eyes,Forever gazing o'er the shifting sands,Have watched Earth's countless dynasties arise,Stalk forth like spectres waving ...
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 ...