Two Singers Accompanying Themselves On The Harp (Karl Heinrich Marx Poems)
A Ballad"What brings you to this Castle hereTo breathe Song's radiant aureole?Seek you a loving comrade dearFor whom in longing ...
A Ballad"What brings you to this Castle hereTo breathe Song's radiant aureole?Seek you a loving comrade dearFor whom in longing ...
ON THE GIFT OF A MEERSCHAUM PIPEThe pipe came safe, and welcome too,As anything must be from you;A meerschaum pure, ...
THE FAUNWithin my garden's silence and seclusion,In pensive beauty gazing toward the dawn,There stands, mid vines and flowers in profusion, A ...
Oh! tell me ye shepherds, tell me I pray,Have you seen the fair Jessie pass by this way?You ne'er could ...
When with a skilful hand Prometheus madeA statue that the human form displayed,Pandora, his own work, to wed he chose,And ...
LIST to an Arab parable, whereinThe beauty of the Orient fancy shrinesA star-like truth, the iconoclastic WestIs blind to see, ...
O, brothers mine, take care! Take care!The great white witch rides out to-night,Trust not your prowess nor your strength;Your only ...
I love to see the little goldfinch pluckThe groundsel's feather'd seed, and twit and twit,And soon in bower of apple ...
Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise,To scorn delights and live laborious days.Milton.I.O MOCKERY to dream of ...
A COPPER concave of a skyHangs high above my head.Vague thunder sullenly goes byWith dragging, muffled tread.The hot air faints ...
Upon a bank, easeless with knobs of gold,Beneath a canopy of noonday smoke,I saw a measureless Beast, morose and bold,With ...
"The Song of the Shirt,"— O heart-stirring hymn How sternly and terribly trueThe portrait of misery, ghastly and grim, That Bard of ...
We met--he was a stranger, His foot was free to roam;I was a simple maiden, Who had never left my home.He was ...
This morning I got up before the sunHad seized the hill,And scrambled heart-hot, noisy, past each oneIn sleep laid still.There ...
NOW from before Aurora's rays,Stern darkness with its horror flies;The mountain tops begin to blaze,And Phoebus gilds the eastern skies.See ...
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 ...
Why gaze ye on my hoary hairs,Ye children young and gay?Your locks, beneath the blast of cares,Will bleach as white ...
YOUNG William once the blithest of the swains,That grac'd the flow'ry bank, or trode the plains;Not rustic, but from affectation ...
(To F. H.)In pale green twilight lands Under the seaHer rainbow palace stands, Irised and opaline; Agate and almondine,Corals and pearly shellsSwept from ...
FROM THE HINDOSTANEE."I AM poor," said Chunder Ali, while the Mandarin above himFrowned in supercilious anger at the dog who ...
On the Bank of a River so deep,Whose Waters glide silently on,Sad Rosalind sat down to weep,For Damon her Lover ...
THOU hast thy mother's eyes, my child--Her deep dark eyes: the undefiledSweetness which breathes around her mouth,A perfect rosebud of ...
HAVE you ever been down to my countree Where the trees are green and tall? The days are long and the heavens ...
_On the Death of Herbert Southey: addressed to his Father_. --------Knowing the nature of thy grief,Too deep, too recent for relief,Oh! ...
PERMIT a dull muse, my dear Charlotte, to say,The season approaches when Brook Green looks gay;Or in other terms, my ...
Magnolia! "Pale city of the dead,"Adown thy gravelled walks I tread,Thy marble pillars looming high,Thy polished shafts around me lie.With ...
THE CAMPBELLS ARE COMING Gather, oh gather! gather, oh gather On with the philabeg every manAnd up with the bonnet and badge ...
I have a beautiful castle, With towers and battlements fair;And many a banner, with gay device, Floats in the outer air.The walls ...
It is in sooth a lovely tress,Still curled in many a ring,As glossy as the plumes that dressThe raven's jetty ...
The stormy Cape is passed; now the wide seaRolls with a prouder and a bolder swell;The joyous tar, chaunting "Ho, ...
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