Stanzas
Stanzas How often we forget all time, when loneAdmiring Nature’s universal throne;Her woods — her wilds — her mountains — the intenseReply of HERS to OUR intelligence! 1. In youth have I […]
Spiritual Song
Spiritual Song Hark, echo! — Hark; echo!’Tis the soundOf archangels, in happiness wrapt Edgar Allan Poe The unfinished poem was not published during Poe’s lifetime. First published in 1911.
Sonnet — To Zante
Sonnet — To Zante Fair isle, that from the fairest of all flowersThy gentlest of all gentle names dost take,How many memories of what radiant hoursAt sight of thee and […]
Sonnet — To Science
Sonnet — To Science Science! meet daughter of old Time thou artWho alterest all things with thy peering eyes!Why prey’st thou thus upon the poet’s heart,Vulture! whose wings are dull […]
Silence — A Sonnet
Silence A Sonnet There are some qualities — some incorporate thingsThat have a double life — life aptly made,The type of that twin entity which springsFrom matter and light, evinced […]
Sonnet
Sonnet “Seldom we find,” says Solomon Don Dunce,“Half an idea in the profoundest sonnet.Through all the flimsy things we see at onceAs easily as through a Naples bonnet —Trash of all […]
Song of Triumph
Song of Triumph Who is king but Epiphanes?Say do you know?Who is God but Epiphanes?Say do you know?There is none but EpiphanesNo — there is none:So tear down the templesAnd […]
Serenade
Serenade So sweet the hour — so calm the time,I feel it more than half a crimeWhen Nature sleeps and stars are mute,To mar the silence ev’n with lute.At rest […]
Politian
Politian, A Tragedy. Scene: Rome in the 16th century. Characters: Lalage – an orphan ward of Di Broglio. Alessandra – niece of Di Broglio, and betrothed to Castiglione. Jacinta – servant maid to […]
Preface
Preface 1Romance who loves to nod and singWith drowsy head and folded wingAmong the green leaves as they shakeFar down within some shadowy lakeTo me a painted paroquetHath been — a […]
A Pæan
A Pæan I.How shall the burial rite be read?The solemn song be sung?The requiem for the loveliest dead,That ever died so young? II.Her friends are gazing on her,And on her […]
O, Tempora! O, Mores!
O, Tempora! O, Mores! O, Times! O, Manners! It is my opinionThat you are changing sadly your dominion —I mean the reign of manners hath long ceased,For men have none […]