Parrhasius (Nathaniel Parker Willis Poems)
There stood an unsold captive in the mart,a gray-haired and majestical old man,chained to a pillar. It was almost night,and ...
There stood an unsold captive in the mart,a gray-haired and majestical old man,chained to a pillar. It was almost night,and ...
It was a sultry day of summer time. The sun pour'd down upon the ripen'd grain With quivering heat, and the suspended ...
He sat by me in school. His face is now Vividly in my mind, as if he went From me but yesterday--its ...
The rain is playing its soft pleasant tune Fitfully on the skylight, and the shade Of the fast flying clouds across my ...
The moon was shining yet. The Orient's brow, Set with the morning star, was not yet dim; And the deep silence which ...
I'm twenty-two--I'm twenty-two-- They gaily give me joy, As if I should be glad to hear That I was less a boy. They do ...
A servant of the living God is dead! His errand hath been well and early done, And early hath he gone to ...
On the cross-beam under the old south bellthe nest of a pigeon is builded well.In summer and winter that bird ...
I will throw by my book. The weariness Of too much study presses on my brain, And thought's close fetter binds upon ...
Common as light is love,and its familiar voice wearies not ever.-Shelley.Love knoweth every form of air,and every shape of earth,and ...
Argument.-the poet starts from the bowling green to take his sweetheart up to Thompson's for an ice, or (if she ...
Fleetly hath passed the year. The seasons cameduly as they are wont-the gentle spring,and the delicious summer, and the cool,rich ...
The shadows lay along broadway,'t was near the twilight-tide,and slowly there a lady fairwas walking in her pride.Alone walked she; ...
The frozen ground looks gray. 'Twill shut the snow Out from its bosom, and the flakes will fall Softly and lie upon ...
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