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 ...
John Lawson Stoddard Poems on Sense & Perception (19 Poems)
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 ...
Bird Slaughter (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Poor, little bird! the chase is ended;No longer hast thou cause for fear;Within these walls thou art befriended;No sportsmen can ...
Fallen (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
My country! by our fathers rearedAs champion of the world's opprest;Whose moral force the tyrant feared;Whose flag all struggling freemen ...
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 ...
My Library (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Shrine of my mind, my Library!Each morn I greet thee with delight,When, soul-refreshed, I bring to theeThe benediction of the ...
Reincarnation (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
I know not how, I know not where,But from my own heart's mystic loreI feel that I have breathed this ...
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 ...
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 ...
Acqua Fredda (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
By Acqua Fredda's cloister-wallI pause to feel the mountain breeze,And watch the shadows eastward fallFrom immemorial cypress trees.Like arms outstretched ...
The Passing Moon (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
In my loggia bright I watch to-nightThe full moon sailing by;From a crystal creek in a glaciered peakIt slipped to ...
Sunset At Interlaken (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
The sun is low; Yon peak of snowIs reddening 'neath the sunset glow; The rosy light Makes richly brightThe Jungfrau's veil of snowy ...
To The “Ring Nebula” (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
O pallid spectre of the midnight skies,Whose phantom features in the dome of NightElude the keenest gaze of wistful eyes,Till ...
Dreamland (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
I woke from dreams of rare delightAnd visions of a joyous land,Where loved ones, long since lost to sight,Walked blithely ...
In A Modern City (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
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 ...
Passing And Permanent (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
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 ...
To C…. (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Behind a laughing waterfallThere lies a little fount of tears,Deep, dark, and rarely seen at allBy those the sparkling torrent ...