The Happiest Day
The Happiest Day The happiest day — the happiest hour,My sear’d and blighted heart has known,The brightest glance of pride and powerI feel hath flown — Of power, said I? […]
For Annie
For Annie Thank Heaven! — the crisis —The danger is past;And the lingering illnessIs over at last ——And the fever called “Living”Is conquered at last.——Sadly, I know, I amShorn of […]
Fanny
Fanny The dying swan by northern lakesSings its wild death song, sweet and clear,And as the solemn music breaksO’er hill and glen dissolves in air;Thus musical thy soft voice came,Thus […]
Evening Star
Evening Star ’Twas noontide of summer,And mid-time of night;And stars, in their orbits,Shone pale, thro’ the lightOf the brighter, cold moon,’Mid planets her slaves,Herself in the Heavens,Her beam on the […]
Eulalie
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 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 reasons for so doingBesides my […]
Eldorado
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
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
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 —From […]
The Doomed City
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 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
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 […]