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Wanderer's Night Songs. (From Goethe)
Wanderer's Night Songs. (From Goethe)
I.
Thou that from the heavens art,
Every pain and sorrow stillest,
And the doubly wretched heart
Vox Populi. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The Third)
Vox Populi. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The Third)
When Mazarvan the Magician
Journeyed westward through Cathay,
Nothing heard he but the praises <…
Voices Of The Night : The Light Of Stars
Voices Of The Night : The Light Of Stars
The night is come, but not too soon;
And sinking silently,
All silently, the little moon
Drops d…
Voices Of The Night : Prelude
Voices Of The Night : Prelude
Pleasant it was, when woods were green,
And winds were soft and low,
To lie amid some sylvan scene,
Where, …
Voices Of The Night : L'Envoi
Voices Of The Night : L'Envoi
Ye voices, that arose
After the Evening's close,
And whispered to my restless heart repose!
…
Voices Of The Night : Footsteps of Angels
Voices Of The Night : Footsteps of Angels
When the hours of Day are numbered,
And the voices of the Night
Wake the better soul, that slumbered, <…
Vittoria Colonna
Vittoria Colonna
Once more, once more, Inarimé,
I see thy purple hills!--once more
I hear the billows of the bay
Wash the white pebbles o…
Voices Of The Night : A Psalm Of Life
Voices Of The Night : A Psalm Of Life
Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream! -
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
…
Venice
Venice
White swan of cities, slumbering in thy nest
So wonderfully built among the reeds
Of the lagoon, that fences thee and feeds,
Village Blacksmith, The
Village Blacksmith, The
Under a spreading chestnut tree
The village smithy stands;
The Smith, a mighty man is he,
With large and sinewy h…
Ultima Thule: The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls
Ultima Thule: The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls
The tide rises, the tide falls,
The twilight darkens, the curlew calls;
Along the sea-sands damp and…
Ultima Thule: The Poet And His Songs
Ultima Thule: The Poet And His Songs
As the birds come in the Spring,
We know not from where;
As the stars come at evening
From depths of…
Ultima Thule: Night
Ultima Thule: Night
Into the darkness and the hush of night
Slowly the landscape sinks, and fades away,
And with it fade the phantoms of the day,…
Ultima Thule: Robert Burns
Ultima Thule: Robert Burns
I see amid the fields of Ayr
A ploughman, who, in foul and fair,
Sings at his task
So clear, we know not if it…
Ultima Thule: Jugurtha
Ultima Thule: Jugurtha
How cold are thy baths, Apollo!
Cried the African monarch, the splendid,
As down to his death in the hollow
Dark d…
Ultima Thule: Elegiac
Ultima Thule: Elegiac
Dark is the morning with mist; in the narrow mouth of the harbor
Motionless lies the sea, under its curtain of cloud;
Dream…
Ultima Thule: Bayard Taylor
Ultima Thule: Bayard Taylor
Dead he lay among his books!
The peace of God was in his looks.
As the statues in the gloom
W…
Travels By The Fireside. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The Fourth)
Travels By The Fireside. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The Fourth)
The ceaseless rain is falling fast,
And yonder gilded vane,
Immovable for three da…
To William E. Channing
To William E. Channing
The pages of thy book I read,
And as I closed each one,
My heart, responding, ever said,
"Servant of God! …
To Vittoria Colonna. (Sonnet V.)
To Vittoria Colonna. (Sonnet V.)
Lady, how can it chance--yet this we see
In long experience--that will longer last
A living image carved from qu…
To the River Charles
To the River Charles
River! that in silence windest
Through the meadows, bright and free,
Till at length thy rest thou findest
In the bos…
To The River Yvette. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The Fifth)
To The River Yvette. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The Fifth)
O lovely river of Yvette!
O darling river! like a bride,
Some dimpled, bashful, fair Li…
To The Driving Cloud
To The Driving Cloud
Gloomy and dark art thou, O chief of the mighty Omahas;
Gloomy and dark as the driving cloud, whose name thou hast taken!
Wr…
To Italy. (From Filicaja)
To Italy. (From Filicaja)
Italy! Italy! thou who'rt doomed to wear
The fatal gift of beauty and possess
The dower funest of infinite wretchedness…