Fairyland
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 […]
Catholic Hymn
Catholic Hymn Sancta Maria! turn thine eyesUpon the sinner’s sacrificeOf fervent prayer and humble love,From thy holy throne above. At morn, at noon, at twilight dimMaria! thou hast heard my […]
Beloved Physician
Beloved Physician The pulse beats ten and intermits;God nerve the soul that ne’er forgetsIn calm or storm, by night or day,Its steady toil, its loyalty.[. . .] [. . .]The pulse beats ten […]
Bridal Ballad
Bridal Ballad The ring is on my hand,And the wreath is on my brow —Satins and jewels grand,And many a rood of land,Are all at my command,And I am happy […]
Al Aaraaf
Al Aaraaf Part I. O! Nothing earthly save the ray[Thrown back from flowers] of Beauty’s eye,As in those gardens where the daySprings from the gems of Circassy —O! nothing earthly save the […]
To M —
To M — 1 O! I care not that my earthly lotHath — little of Earth in it —That years of love have been forgotIn the fever of a minute […]
An Acrostic
An Acrostic Elizabeth it is in vain you say“Love not” — thou sayest it in so sweet a way:In vain those words from thee or L. E. L.Zantippe’s talents had […]
X-ing a Paragrab
X-ing a Paragrab As it is well known that the ‘wise men’ came ‘from the East,’ and as Mr. Touch-and-go Bullet-head came from the East, it follows that Mr. Bullet-head […]
Von Kempelen and his Discovery
Von Kempelen and his Discovery After the very minute and elaborate paper by Arago, to say nothing of the summary in ‘Silliman’s Journal,’ with the detailed statement just published by […]
The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade
The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade Truth is stranger than fiction — Old Saying Havingx had occasion, lately, in the course of some oriental investigations, to consult the Tellmenow Isitsöornot, a work which (like […]
Thou Art the Man
Thou art the Man I will now play the Œdipus to the Rattleborough enigma. I will expound to you — as I alone can — the secret of the enginery […]
A Tale of Jerusalem
A Tale of Jerusalem Intensos rigidam in frontem ascendere canos Passus erat. — LUCAN DE CATONE. A bristly bore. — TRANSLATION. “Let us hurry to the walls,” said Abel-Shittim to Buzi-Ben-Levi and Simeon […]