Eulalie I dwelt aloneIn a world of moan,And my soul was a stagnant tideTill the fair and gentle Eulalie became my blushing bride —Till the yellow-haired young Eulalie became my...
Elizabeth Elizabeth — it surely is most fit(Logic and common usage so commanding)In thy own book that first thy name be writ,Zeno and other sages notwithstanding:And I have other...
Eldorado Gaily bedight,A gallant knight,In sunshine and in shadow,Had journeyed long,Singing a song,In search of Eldorado. But he grew old —This knight so bold —And o’er his heart a shadowFell...
Dreams Oh! that my young life were a lasting dream!My spirit not awak’ning, till the beamOf an Eternity should bring the morrow.Yes! tho’ that long dream were of hopeless sorrow.’Twere...
Dream-Land By a route obscure and lonely,Haunted by ill angels only,Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT,On a black throne reigns upright,I have reached these lands but newlyFrom an ultimate dim Thule...
The Doomed City A PROPHECY. Lo! Death hath rear’d himself a throneIn a strange city, all alone,Far down within the dim west —And the good, and the bad, and the...
The Divine Right of Kings The only king by right divineIs Ellen King, and were she mineI’d strive for liberty no more,But hug the glorious chains I wore. Her bosom is...
The Coliseum Lone ampitheatre! Grey Coliseum!Type of the antique Rome! Rich reliquaryOf lofty contemplation left to TimeBy buried centuries of pomp and power!At length, at length — after so many...
Fairyland Dim vales — and shadowy floods —And cloudy-looking woods,Whose forms we can’t discoverFor the tears that drip all over.Huge moons there wax and wane —Again — again — again...
