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, 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...
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 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, 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...
Lines on Joe Locke As for Locke, he is all in my eye,May the d—l right soon for his soul call.He never was known to lie —In bed at a reveillé roll-call.”...
Lenore Ah, broken is the golden bowl!The spirit flown forever!Let the bell toll! — A saintly soulGlides down the Stygian river!And let the burial rite be read —The funeral song...
Latin Hymn Mille, mille, milleMille, mille, milleDecollavimus, unus homo!Mille, mille, mille, mille, decollavimus!Mille, mille, mille!Vivat qui mille mille occidit!Tantum vini habet nemoQuantum...
The Lake In youth’s spring, it was my lotTo haunt of the wide earth a spotThe which I could not love the less;So lovely was the lonelinessOf a wild lake...
