Rome Revisited (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
O sovereign Rome, still mistress of the heart,As of the world in thy majestic prime,Grand in thy ruins, peerless in ...
John Lawson Stoddard Poems on World (34 Poems)
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 ...
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 ...
A Story Of The Sea (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Were you ever told the legend oldOf the birth of storms at sea?You should hear the tale in a Channel ...
Youth And Age (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
"I will gain a fortune," the young man cried;"For Gold by the world is deified;Hence, whether the means be foul ...
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 ...
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 ...
My “Promenade Solitaire” (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Up and down in my garden fair,Under the trellis where grapes will bloom,With the breath of violets in the air,As ...
The Iron Crown (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
On the classic shore of Como,'Neath a headland steep and bold,Which, though leaden at the dawning,In the sunset turns to ...
Life’s Trilogy (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
_Youth_ dreams of all the years shall hold,--Of poems writ, of battles won,Of statues made, of love, of gold,And honors, ...
At Lenno (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
By Lake Como's sylvan shore, Where the wavelets evermoreSeem to rhythmically murmur of the classic days of yore, Cease, O boatman, now ...
The Gift Of Juno (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Already 'neath the morning starThe shrine, by Juno's favor blest,Had flashed its whiteness from afar,Resplendent on a mountain's crest,Along whose ...
Delio Patri (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Once more Lake Como's storied isle Reveals the Roman past!Again a stone of classic style The spade hath upward cast;How can such ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Evening On Lake Como (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Beside my garden's ivied wall,Enwreathed in vines of gold and green,I stand, as evening shadows fall,And marvel at the matchless ...
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 ...
To Hon. Jesse Holdom Of Chicago, (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
on receipt of his picture and that of his baby in his arms.Far from the great lake's pride, Over the ocean ...
Seclusion (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Shut out the World, shut in the Home!The sea is deeper than its foam;Retain the gem, reject the paste;Withdraw from ...
The Pagan Past (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
What sylvan god was worshipped here?What nymph once made this grove her home,And bathed within its fountain clear,When Caesar ruled ...
Personally Addressed (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Written for a Golden Wedding, 1883Just fifty years ago to-night, When earth was mantled deep with snow,The stars beheld with tender ...
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 ...
Corsica (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
In Bordighera's groves of palmI linger at the close of day,And watch, beyond the ocean's calm,A range of mountains far ...
After The Vintage (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
How can my vineyard's charm be told,As it basks in the autumn haze?The Frost King's touch, so light and cold,Like ...
The Captive (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
I opened the cage of my pet canary;Timid, it faltered a moment there,Then, at my call, became less wary,And blithely ...
The Awakening (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Let me sleep on! I would not waken yet,Or leave too soon the peaceful realm of dreams!There, lulled by placid ...
Autonomy (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Stand forth, my soul, and take thine own!Though all should blame thee, have no fear!Self-poised and steadfast, dare aloneThy self-elected ...