The Monks Of Basle (John Hay Poems)
I tore this weed from the rank, dark soilWhere it grew in the monkish time,I trimmed it close and set ...
I tore this weed from the rank, dark soilWhere it grew in the monkish time,I trimmed it close and set ...
Found Solitary Among the Hills. I. O pansy-violet, With early April wet, How frail and pure you look Lost in this glow-worm nook Of heaven-holding hills: Down ...
A beautiful and happy girl,With step as light as summer air,Eyes glad with smiles, and brow of pearl,Shadowed by many ...
I PESSIMIST There is never a thing we dream or do But was dreamed and done in the ages gone; Everything's old; there is ...
I do not own an inch of land, But all I see is mine,-The orchard and the mowing-fields, The lawns and gardens ...
Assemble, all ye maidens, at the door,And all ye loves, assemble; far and wideProclaim the bridal, that proclaimed beforeHas been ...
I read upon that book,Which down the golden gulf doth let us lookOn the sweet days of pastoral majesty; I read ...
Black loom the crags of the uplands behind me,Dark are the sands of the far-stretching shore.Dim are the pathways and ...
Raymond.earest, that sit'st in dreams, Through the window look, this way.How changed and desolate seemsThe world, Ida, to-day!Heavy and low the ...
I Clad on with glowing beauty and the peace, Benign, of calm maturity, she stands Among her meadows and her orchard-lands, And on her ...
The weary day runs down and dies,The weary night wears through:And never an hour is fair wi' flower,And never a ...
You are watching a ship, O, maiden fair,With parted lips and wistful air,The ship that out from the sheltered bayWith ...
Vanished are the veils of light and shade,Lifted the vapors of sorrow,Sailed away the dawn of fleeting joy,Gone the mirage ...
I. The lake she haunts lies dreamily 'Neath sleepy boughs of melody, And far away an olden sea, An olden sea booms mellow; And the ...
Come, no more of grief and dying! Sing the time too swiftly flying. Just an hour Youth's in flower, Give me roses to remember In ...
Before all the wondrous shows of the widespread space around him, what living, sentient thing loves not the all-joyous light ...
THE MERCHANT Abu Khan shunned the customs of his race,And sought the cultured wisdom of the West.His daughter fair Leola ...
Cherry, cherry,glowing on the hearth,bright red cherry..When you try to pick up cherryCelia's shrieksticks in you like a pin.When God ...
"Father to me thou art and mother dear, And brother too, kind husband of my heart -So speaks Andromache in boding ...
Thee have I seen in some waste Arden old, A white-browed maiden by a foaming stream, With eyes profound and looks like ...
"Let not your hearts be troubled, but confide"In me as ye confide in God; I go"A mansion for my followers ...
I lay upon the headland-height, and listenedTo the incessant sobbing of the sea In caverns under me,And watched the waves, that ...
IIt is not early spring and yetOf bloodroot blooms along the stream,And blotted banks of violet,My heart will dream.Is it ...
Your landscape sickens with a dry diseaseEven in May, Virginia, and your sweet pinesLike Frenchmen runted in a hundred warsAre ...
"What's the use of fairies?" said the child,"What's the use of fairies at all?The weeds in my garden grow wild,And ...
HOLD! Prompter, hold! a word before your nonsense;I'd speak a word or two, to ease my conscience.My pride forbids it ever should ...
TERCENTENNIAL CELEBRATIONAPRIL 23, 1864"Who claims our Shakespeare from that realm unknown,Beyond the storm-vexed islands of the deep,Where Genoa's roving mariner ...
IN a dream of the night I was wafted away,To the moorland of mist where the martyrs lay;Where Cameron's sword ...
How slowly glide the hours by, the minutes hours seem;Ah! can such misery be real, or is it but a ...
They know the Almighty's power, Who, wakened by the rushing midnight shower, Watch for the fitful breeze To howl and chafe amid the ...
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