The Rapidan (Kate Putnam Osgood Poems)
The languid Southern night was faintWith wafted breath of odorous bloom!The heavy masses of the treesWere clustered full of dewy ...
The languid Southern night was faintWith wafted breath of odorous bloom!The heavy masses of the treesWere clustered full of dewy ...
IN the azure aerial ocean the silver cloudshover; stars twinkle, stars are merry, but themoon is pale and silent.The forest ...
I stood beside the grave of him who blazedThe comet of a season, and I sawThe humblest of all sepulchres, ...
For ages on our river borders,These tassels in their tawny bloom,And willowy studs of downy silver,Have prophesied of Spring to ...
Nor gold, nor silver are the words set here,Nor rich-wrought chasing on design of art;But rugged relics of an unknown ...
DAVID.What means yon apparition in the sky,Thirsis, that dazzles every shepherd's eye?I slumbering was when from yon glorious cloudCame gliding ...
Not as all other women areIs she that to my soul is dear;Her glorious fancies come from far,Beneath the silver ...
THE sun stepped down from his golden throne.And lay in the silent sea,And the Lily had folded her satin leaves,For ...
One night I dreamt that on a shoreOf far-off Eastern lands I stood,And to my ears the breezes boreFaint music ...
On sunny slope and beechen swell,The shadowed light of evening fell;And, where the maple's leaf was brown,With soft and silent ...
As the caged eagle neared the mountain range, O'er which he oft had soared on pinions strong,He clapped his wings, moved ...
From the mountain gray It has made its wayTo my garden green and cool, And there, from the edge Of a rocky ledgeLeaps ...
How I loved you in your sleep,With the starlight on your hair!The touch of your lips was sweet,Aziza whom I ...
Here the sunshine, filtering down,Through leaves of emerald, dun and brown, Is green instead of goldenAnd the hum and roar of ...
Goddess, slow-born of the ages Liberty, light-giving soul!Raised, looking seaward, gigantic in sheen of bronze,What dost thou see in the ...
In my loggia bright I watch to-nightThe full moon sailing by;From a crystal creek in a glaciered peakIt slipped to ...
When the world was first createdBy th' all-wise Eternal One,Asked he none for help or counsel,--Simply spake, and it was ...
O, the red rose may be fair,And the lily statelier;But my shamrock, one in three,Takes the very heart of me!Many ...
How memory cuts away the years,And how clean the picture comesOf autumn days, brisk and busy;Charged with keen sunshine.And you, ...
Now Morning from her orient chamber came, And her first footsteps touch'd a verdant hill; Crowning its lawny crest with amber flame, Silv'ring ...
He has five children, I'm papato a hundred pencils.I bought the chair he sat infrom a book of chairs,staplers and ...
THE MAIDENI gazed on a beautiful girl, How bright were the tints on her cheek!How brilliant the light in her eyes!— Her ...
Fly with me, my mortal love! Oh! haste to realms of purer day,Where we form the morning dew, And the rainbow's varied ...
I was sold to the Rao of Ilore, Slender and tall was he.When his litter carried him down the street I peeped ...
With what a glory comes and goes the year!The buds of spring, those beautiful harbingersOf sunny skies and cloudless times, ...
Pearl Iridescent! Pearl of the sea!Shimmering, glimmering Pearl of the sea! White in the sun-flecked Silver Sea, White in the moon-decked Silver ...
Around the glowing fireside of the nationA vacant chair no one can ever fill;Death came, and stole from it a ...
The dust is thick on the city street, The smoke on the city skyHangs dense and gray at the close of ...
Died March 20, 1875.I.DEAD, with his harness on him:Rigid and cold and white,Marking the place of the vanguardStill in the ...
In the heavy earth the miner Toiled and laboured day by day, Wrenching from the miser mountain Brilliant treasure where it lay. And the ...
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