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 ...
The son of a Japanese lord am I,--A Prince of the olden time;My hair is white, though black as nightIn ...
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 ...
Were you ever told the legend oldOf the birth of storms at sea?You should hear the tale in a Channel ...
("Old Lucia", who for many years walked back and forth, every day and inall weathers, between Azzano and Menaggio, a ...
"I will gain a fortune," the young man cried;"For Gold by the world is deified;Hence, whether the means be foul ...
I tread the vast deserted stageWhereon the Caesars lived and died;The relics of Rome's golden ageLie strewn about me far ...
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 ...
I know not how, I know not where,But from my own heart's mystic loreI feel that I have breathed this ...
_Youth_ dreams of all the years shall hold,--Of poems writ, of battles won,Of statues made, of love, of gold,And honors, ...
O goddess of that Grecian isle Whose shores the blue Aegean laves,Whose cliffs repeat with answering smile Their features in its sun-kissed ...
By Acqua Fredda's cloister-wallI pause to feel the mountain breeze,And watch the shadows eastward fallFrom immemorial cypress trees.Like arms outstretched ...
Once more between its walls of pinesI see the long ravine expandTo where the ice-world's crystal linesDefine the realm of ...
Dear, old-time tunes of prayer and praise,Heard first beside my mother's knee,Your music on my spirit laysA spell from which ...
Earthen jar of quaint design,Fragile clay and slender mould,I shall soon have drained the wineWhich you still contrive to hold,--Wine ...
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