To — — —.
To — — —. Sleep on, sleep on, another hour —I would not break so calm a sleep,To wake to sunshine and to show’r,To smile and weep. Sleep on, sleep […]
To —— ——
To —— —— 1 The bowers whereat, in dreams, I seeThe wantonest singing birdsAre lips — and all thy melodyOf lip-begotten words — 2 Thine eyes, in Heaven of heart […]
Tamerlane
Tamerlane I have sent for thee, holy friar;But ’twas not with the drunken hope,Which is but agony of desireTo shun the fate, with which to copeIs more than crime […]
Stanzas [To F. S. O.]
Stanzas Lady! I would that verse of mineCould fling, all lavishly and free,Prophetic tones from every line,Of health, joy, peace, in store for thee. Thine should be length of happy […]
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 […]