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EARLY POEMS.
Moses on the Nile
“Sisters! the wave is freshest in the ray
Of the young morning; the reapers are asleep;
The river bank is lonely: come away! … Continue Reading …
Envy and Avarice
Envy and Avarice, one summer day,
Sauntering abroad
In quest of the abode … Continue Reading …
ODES.—1818-28.
King Louis XVII
The golden gates were opened wide that day,
All through the unveiled heaven there seemed to play
Out of the Holiest of Holy, light; … Continue Reading …
The Feast of Freedom
When the Christians were doomed to the lions of old
By the priest and the praetor, combined to uphold
An idolatrous cause, … Continue Reading …
Genius
Woe unto him! the child of this sad earth,
Who, in a troubled world, unjust and blind,
Bears Genius—treasure of celestial birth, … Continue Reading …
The Girl of Otaheite
Forget? Can I forget the scented breath
Of breezes, sighing of thee, in mine ear;
The strange awaking from a dream of death, … Continue Reading …
Nero’s Incendiary Song
Aweary unto death, my friends, a mood by wise abhorred,
Come to the novel feast I spread, thrice-consul, Nero, lord,
The Caesar, master of the world, and eke of harmony, … Continue Reading …
Regret
Yes, Happiness hath left me soon behind!
Alas! we all pursue its steps! and when
We’ve sunk to rest within its arms entwined, … Continue Reading …
The Morning of Life
The mist of the morning is torn by the peaks,
Old towers gleam white in the ray,
And already the glory so joyously seeks … Continue Reading …
Beloved Name
The lily’s perfume pure, fame’s crown of light,
The latest murmur of departing day,
Fond friendship’s plaint, that melts at piteous sight, … Continue Reading …
The Portrait of a Child
That brow, that smile, that cheek so fair,
Beseem my child, who weeps and plays:
A heavenly spirit guards her ways, … Continue Reading …
BALLADES.—1823-28.
The Grandmother
“To die—to sleep.”—SHAKESPEARE.
Still asleep! We have been since the noon thus alone.
Oh, the hours we have ceased to number! … Continue Reading …
The Giant in Glee
Ho, warriors! I was reared in the land of the Gauls;
O’er the Rhine my ancestors came bounding like balls
Of the snow at the Pole, where, a babe, I was bathed … Continue Reading …
The Cymbaleer’s Bride
My lord the Duke of Brittany
Has summoned his barons bold—
Their names make a fearful litany! … Continue Reading …
Battle of the Norsemen and the Gaels
Ho! hither flock, ye fowls of prey!
Ye wolves of war, make no delay!
For foemen ‘neath our blades shall fall … Continue Reading …
Madelaine
List to me, O Madelaine!
Now the snows have left the plain,
Which they warmly cloaked. … Continue Reading …
The Fay and the Peri
Beautiful spirit, come with me
Over the blue enchanted sea:
Morn and evening thou canst play … Continue Reading …
LES ORIENTALES.—1829
The Scourge of Heaven
Hast seen it pass, that cloud of darkest rim?
Now red and glorious, and now gray and dim,
Now sad as summer, barren in its heat? … Continue Reading …
Pirates’ Song
We’re bearing fivescore Christian dogs
To serve the cruel drivers:
Some are fair beauties gently born, … Continue Reading …
The Turkish Captive
Oh! were I not a captive,
I should love this fair countree;
Those fields with maize abounding, … Continue Reading …
Moonlight on the Bosphorus
Bright shone the merry moonbeams dancing o’er the wave;
At the cool casement, to the evening breeze flung wide,
Leans the Sultana, and delights to watch the tide, … Continue Reading …
The Veil
“Have you prayed tonight, Desdemona?”
What has happened, my brothers? Your spirit to-day
Some secret sorrow damps … Continue Reading …
The Favorite Sultana
To please you, Jewess, jewel!
I have thinned my harem out!
Must every flirting of your fan … Continue Reading …
The Pasha and the Dervish
Ali came riding by—the highest head
Bent to the dust, o’ercharged with dread,
Whilst “God be praised!” all cried; … Continue Reading …
The Lost Battle
Oh, Allah! who will give me back my terrible array?
My emirs and my cavalry that shook the earth to-day;
My tent, my wide-extending camp, all dazzling to the sight, … Continue Reading …
The Greek Boy
All is a ruin where rage knew no bounds:
Chio is levelled, and loathed by the hounds,
For shivered yest’reen was her lance; … Continue Reading …
Zara, the Bather
In a swinging hammock lying,
Lightly flying,
Zara, lovely indolent, … Continue Reading …
Expectation
Squirrel, mount yon oak so high,
To its twig that next the sky
Bends and trembles as a flower! … Continue Reading …
The Lover’s Wish
Oh! were I the leaf that the wind of the West,
His course through the forest uncaring;
To sleep on the gale or the wave’s placid breast … Continue Reading …
The Sacking of the City
Thy will, O King, is done! Lighting but to consume,
The roar of the fierce flames drowned even the shouts and shrieks;
Reddening each roof, like some day-dawn of bloody doom, … Continue Reading …
Noormahal the Fair
Between two ebon rocks
Behold yon sombre den,
Where brambles bristle like the locks … Continue Reading …
The Djinns
Town, tower,
Shore, deep,
Where lower … Continue Reading …
The Obdurate Beauty
To Juana ever gay,
Sultan Achmet spoke one day
“Lo, the realms that kneel to own … Continue Reading …
Don Rodrigo
Unto the chase Rodrigo’s gone,
With neither lance nor buckler;
A baleful light his eyes outshone— … Continue Reading …
Cornflowers
While bright but scentless azure stars
Be-gem the golden corn,
And spangle with their skyey tint … Continue Reading …
Mazeppa
As when a mortal—Genius’ prize, alack!
Is, living, bound upon thy fatal back,
Thou reinless racing steed! … Continue Reading …
The Danube in Wrath
Ye daughters mine! will naught abate
Your fierce interminable hate? … Continue Reading …
Old Ocean
I stood by the waves, while the stars soared in sight,
Not a cloud specked the sky, not a sail shimmered bright;
Scenes beyond this dim world were revealed to mine eye; … Continue Reading …
My Napoleon
Above all others, everywhere I see
His image cold or burning!
My brain it thrills, and oftentime sets free … Continue Reading …
LES FEUILLES D’AUTOMNE.—1831.
The Patience of the People
How often have the people said: “What’s power?”
Who reigns soon is dethroned? each fleeting hour
Has onward borne, as in a fevered dream, … Continue Reading …
Dictated before the Rhone Glacier
When my mind, on the ocean of poesy hurled,
Floats on in repose round this wonderful world,
Oft the sacred fire from heaven— … Continue Reading …
The Poet’s Love for Liveliness
For me, whate’er my life and lot may show,
Years blank with gloom or cheered by mem’ry’s glow,
Turmoil or peace; never be it mine, I pray, … Continue Reading …
Infantile Influence – (“Lorsque l’enfant paraît“)
The child comes toddling in, and young and old
With smiling eyes its smiling eyes behold,
And artless, babyish joy; … Continue Reading …
The Watching Angel
In the dusky nook,
Near the altar laid,
Sleeps the child in shadow … Continue Reading …
Sunset
The sun set this evening in masses of cloud,
The storm comes to-morrow, then calm be the night,
Then the Dawn in her chariot refulgent and proud, … Continue Reading …
The Universal Prayer (“La Prière pour tous“)
Come, child, to prayer; the busy day is done,
A golden star gleams through the dusk of night;
The hills are trembling in the rising mist, … Continue Reading …
LES CHANTS DU CRÉPUSCULE.—1849.
Prelude to “The Songs of Twilight”
How shall I note thee, line of troubled years,
Which mark existence in our little span?
One constant twilight in the heaven appears— … Continue Reading …
The Land of Fable
Now, vot’ries of the Muses, turn your eyes,
Unto the East, and say what there appears!
“Alas!” the voice of Poesy replies, … Continue Reading …
The Three Glorious Days – (“Dicté après juillet 1830
Youth of France, sons of the bold,
Your oak-leaf victor-wreaths behold!
Our civic-laurels—honored dead! … Continue Reading …
Tribute to the Vanquished
Oh! let me weep that race whose day is past,
By exile given, by exile claimed once more,
Thrice swept away upon that fatal blast. … Continue Reading …
Angel or Demon
Angel or demon! thou,—whether of light
The minister, or darkness—still dost sway
This age of ours; thine eagle’s soaring flight … Continue Reading …
The Eruption of Vesuvius
When huge Vesuvius in its torment long,
Threatening has growled its cavernous jaws among,
When its hot lava, like the bubbling wine, … Continue Reading …
Marriage and Feasts – (“Noces et festins“)
The hall is gay with limpid lustre bright—
The feast to pampered palate gives delight—
The sated guests pick at the spicy food, … Continue Reading …
The Morrow of Grandeur
Sire, beware, the future’s range
Is of God alone the power,
Naught below but augurs change, … Continue Reading …
The Eaglet Mourned
Too hard Napoleon’s fate! if, lone,
No being he had loved, no single one,
Less dark that doom had been. … Continue Reading …
Invocation
Say, Lord! for Thou alone canst tell
Where lurks the good invisible
Amid the depths of discord’s sea— … Continue Reading …
Outside the Ball-room
Behold the ball-room flashing on the sight,
From step to cornice one grand glare of light;
The noise of mirth and revelry resounds, … Continue Reading …
Prayer for France – (“Ô Dieu ! si vous avez la France sous vos ailes“
O God! if France be still thy guardian care,
Oh! spare these mercenary combats, spare!
The thrones that now are reared but to be broke; … Continue Reading …
To Canaris, the Greek Patriot – (“A Canaris“)
O Canaris! O Canaris! the poet’s song
Has blameful left untold thy deeds too long!
But when the tragic actor’s part is done, … Continue Reading …
Poland
Alone, beneath the tower whence thunder forth
The mandates of the Tyrant of the North,
Poland’s sad genius kneels, absorbed in tears, … Continue Reading …
Insult not the Fallen – (“Oh ! n’insultez jamais une femme qui tombe !” )
I tell you, hush! no word of sneering scorn—
True, fallen; but God knows how deep her sorrow.
Poor girl! too many like her only born … Continue Reading …
Morning – (“L’aurore s’allume“)
Morning glances hither,
Now the shade is past;
Dream and fog fly thither … Continue Reading …
Song of Love – (“Nouvelle chanson“)
If there be a velvet sward
By dewdrops pearly drest,
Where through all seasons fairies guard … Continue Reading …
Sweet Charmer – (“Autre chanson .”)
Though heaven’s gate of light uncloses,
Thou stirr’st not—thou’rt laid to rest,
Waking are thy sister roses, … Continue Reading …
More Strong than Time – (“Puisque j’ai mis ma lèvre à ta coupe encor pleine” )
Since I have set my lips to your full cup, my sweet,
Since I my pallid face between your hands have laid,
Since I have known your soul, and all the bloom of it, … Continue Reading …
Roses and Butterflies
The grave receives us all:
Ye butterflies and roses gay and sweet
Why do ye linger, say? … Continue Reading …
A Simile
Thou art like the bird
That alights and sings … Continue Reading …
The Poet to his Wife
To thee, all time to thee,
My lyre a voice shall be!
Above all earthly fashion, … Continue Reading …
LES VOIX INTÉRIEURES.—1840.
The Blinded Bourbons
Who then, to them{1} had told the Future’s story?
Or said that France, low bowed before their glory,
One day would mindful be … Continue Reading …
To Albert Dürer
Through ancient forests—where like flowing tide
The rising sap shoots vigor far and wide,
Mounting the column of the alder dark … Continue Reading …
To his Muse
Since everything below,
Doth, in this mortal state,
Its tone, its fragrance, or its glow … Continue Reading …
The Cow
Before the farm where, o’er the porch, festoon
Wild creepers red, and gaffer sits at noon,
Whilst strutting fowl display their varied crests, … Continue Reading …
Mothers
See all the children gathered there,
Their mother near; so young, so fair,
An eider sister she might be, … Continue Reading …
To some Birds Flown away
Children, come back—come back, I say—
You whom my folly chased away
A moment since, from this my room, … Continue Reading …
My Thoughts of Ye
What do I dream of? Far from the low roof,
Where now ye are, children, I dream of you;
Of your young heads that are the hope and crown … Continue Reading …
The Beacon in the Storm
Hark to that solemn sound!
It steals towards the strand.—
Whose is that voice profound … Continue Reading …
Love’s Treacherous Pool
Young maiden, true love is a pool all mirroring clear,
Where coquettish girls come to linger in long delight,
For it banishes afar from the face all the clouds that besmear … Continue Reading …
The Rose and the Grave
The Grave said to the rose
“What of the dews of dawn,
Love’s flower, what end is theirs?” … Continue Reading …
LES RAYONS ET LES OMBRES.—1840.
Holyrood Palace
Palace and ruin, bless thee evermore!
Grateful we bow thy gloomy tow’rs before;
For the old King of France{1} hath found in thee … Continue Reading …
The Humble Home
The Church{1} is vast; its towering pride, its steeples loom on high;
The bristling stones with leaf and flower are sculptured wondrously;
The portal glows resplendent with its “rose,” … Continue Reading …
The Eighteenth Century
O Eighteenth Century! by Heaven chastised!
Godless thou livedst, by God thy doom was fixed.
Thou in one ruin sword and sceptre mixed, … Continue Reading …
Still be a Child
In youthful spirits wild,
Smile, for all beams on thee;
Sport, sing, be still the child, … Continue Reading …
The Pool and the Soul (“Comme dans les étangs“)
As in some stagnant pool by forest-side,
In human souls two things are oft descried;
The sky,—which tints the surface of the pool … Continue Reading …
Ye Mariners who Spread your Sails (“Matelots ! matelots ! vous déploierez les voiles“)
Ye mariners! ye mariners! each sail to the breeze unfurled,
In joy or sorrow still pursue your course around the world;
And when the stars next sunset shine, ye anxiously will gaze … Continue Reading …
On a Flemish Window-Pane
Within thy cities of the olden time
Dearly I love to list the ringing chime,
Thou faithful guardian of domestic worth, … Continue Reading …
The Preceptor
A gruesome man, bald, clad in black,
Who kept us youthful drudges in the track,
Thinking it good for them to leave home care, … Continue Reading …
Gastibelza
Gastibelza, with gun the measure beating,
Would often sing:
“Has one o’ ye with sweet Sabine been meeting, … Continue Reading …
Guitar Song
How shall we flee sorrow—flee sorrow? said he.
How, how! How shall we flee sorrow—flee sorrow? said he.
How—how—how? answered she. … Continue Reading …
Come when I Sleep (“Oh ! quand je dors“)
Oh! when I sleep, come near my resting-place,
As Laura came to bless her poet’s heart,
And let thy breath in passing touch my face— … Continue Reading …
Early Love Revisited
I have wished in the grief of my heart to know
If the vase yet treasured that nectar so clear,
And to see what this beautiful valley could show … Continue Reading …
Sweet Memory of Love
As life wanes on, the passions slow depart,
One with his grinning mask, one with his steel;
Like to a strolling troupe of Thespian art, … Continue Reading …
The Marble Faun
He seemed to shiver, for the wind was keen.
‘Twas a poor statue underneath a mass
Of leafless branches, with a blackened back … Continue Reading …
A Love for Winged Things
My love flowed e’er for things with wings.
When boy I sought for forest fowl,
And caged them in rude rushes’ mesh, … Continue Reading …
Baby’s Seaside Grave
Brown ivy old, green herbage new;
Soft seaweed stealing up the shingle;
An ancient chapel where a crew, … Continue Reading …
LES CHÂTIMENTS.—1853.
Indignation!
Thou who loved Juvenal, and filed
His style so sharp to scar imperial brows,
And lent the lustre lightening … Continue Reading …
Imperial Revels
Cheer, courtiers! round the banquet spread—
The board that groans with shame and plate,
Still fawning to the sham-crowned head … Continue Reading …
Poor Little Children
Mother birdie stiff and cold,
Puss has hushed the other’s singing;
Winds go whistling o’er the wold,— … Continue Reading …
Apostrophe to Nature
O Sun! thou countenance divine!
Wild flowers of the glen,
Caves swoll’n with shadow, where sunshine … Continue Reading …
Napoleon “The Little”
How well I knew this stealthy wolf would howl,
When in the eagle talons ta’en in air!
Aglow, I snatched thee from thy prey—thou fowl— … Continue Reading …
Fact or Fable
One fasting day, itched by his appetite,
A monkey took a fallen tiger’s hide,
And, where the wearer had been savage, tried … Continue Reading …
A Lament.
O paths whereon wild grasses wave!
O valleys! hillsides! forests hoar!
Why are ye silent as the grave? … Continue Reading …
No Assassination
Pray Rome put up her poniard!
And Sparta sheathe the sword;
Be none too prompt to punish, … Continue Reading …
The Despatch of the Doom
While in the jolly tavern, the bandits gayly drink,
Upon the haunted highway, sharp hoof-beats loudly clink? … Continue Reading …
The Seaman’s Song
Farewell the strand,
The sails expand
Above! … Continue Reading …
The Retreat from Moscow
It snowed. A defeat was our conquest red!
For once the eagle was hanging its head.
Sad days! the Emperor turned slowly his back … Continue Reading …
The Ocean’s Song
We walked amongst the ruins famed in story
Of Rozel-Tower,
And saw the boundless waters stretch in glory … Continue Reading …
The Trumpets of the Mind
When Joshua ‘gainst the high-walled city fought,
He marched around it with his banner high,
His troops in serried order following nigh, … Continue Reading …
After the Coup d’État
Before foul treachery and heads hung down,
I’ll fold my arms, indignant but serene.
Oh! faith in fallen things—be thou my crown, … Continue Reading …
Patria
Who smiles there? Is it
A stray spirit,
Or woman fair? … Continue Reading …
The Universal Republic
O vision of the coming time!
When man has ‘scaped the trackless slime
And reached the desert spring; … Continue Reading …
LES CONTEMPLATIONS.—1830-56.
The Vale to You, to Me the Heights (La source)
A lion camped beside a spring, where came the Bird
Of Jove to drink:
When, haply, sought two kings, without their courtier herd, … Continue Reading …
Childhood (L’enfance )
The small child sang; the mother, outstretched on the low bed,
With anguish moaned,—fair Form pain should possess not long;
For, ever nigher, Death hovered around her head: … Continue Reading …
Satire on the Earth (“Une terre au flanc maigre…“)
A clod with rugged, meagre, rust-stained, weather-worried face,
Where care-filled creatures tug and delve to keep a worthless race;
And glean, begrudgedly, by all their unremitting toil, … Continue Reading …
How Butterflies are Born (Vere novo)
The dawn is smiling on the dew that covers
The tearful roses—lo, the little lovers—
That kiss the buds and all the flutterings … Continue Reading …
Have You Nothing to Say for Yourself? (Chanson (L’Ame en fleur))
Speak, if you love me, gentle maiden!
Or haunt no more my lone retreat.
If not for me thy heart be laden, … Continue Reading …
Inscription for a Crucifix (Écrit en bas d’un crucifix)
Ye weepers, the Mourner o’er mourners behold!
Ye wounded, come hither—the Healer enfold! … Continue Reading …
Death, in Life (Quia pulvis es“Ceux-ci partent.”)
We pass—these sleep
Beneath the shade where deep-leaved boughs
Bend o’er the furrows the Great Reaper ploughs, … Continue Reading …
The Dying Child to its Mother (A la mère de l’enfant mort)
Ah, you said too often to your angel
There are other angels in the sky—
There, where nothing changes, nothing suffers, … Continue Reading …
Epitaph (Épitaphe)
He lived and ever played, the tender smiling thing.
What need, O Earth, to have plucked this flower from blossoming?
Hadst thou not then the birds with rainbow-colors bright, … Continue Reading …
St. John (“Un jour, le morne esprit, le prophète sublime“)
One day, the sombre soul, the Prophet most sublime
At Patmos who aye dreamed,
And tremblingly perused, without the vast of Time, … Continue Reading …
The Poet’s Simple Faith
You say, “Where goest thou?” I cannot tell,
And still go on. If but the way be straight, … Continue Reading …
I am Content
True; I dwell lone,
Upon sea-beaten cape,
Mere raft of stone; … Continue Reading …
LA LÉGENDE DES SIÈCLES.
Cain
Then, with his children, clothed in skins of brutes,
Dishevelled, livid, rushing through the storm,
Cain fled before Jehovah. As night fell … Continue Reading …
Boaz Asleep
At work within his barn since very early,
Fairly tired out with toiling all the day,
Upon the small bed where he always lay … Continue Reading …
Song of the German Lanzknecht
Flourish the trumpet! and rattle the drum!
The Reiters are mounted! the Reiters will come! … Continue Reading …
King Canute
King Canute died.{1} Encoffined he was laid.
Of Aarhuus came the Bishop prayers to say,
And sang a hymn upon his tomb, and held … Continue Reading …
King Canute (II)
But he saw nothing; space was black—no sound.
“Forward,” said Canute, raising his proud head.
There fell a second stain beside the first, … Continue Reading …
The Boy-King’s Prayer
The good steed flew o’er river and o’er plain,
Till far away,—no need of spur or rein.
The child, half rapture, half solicitude, … Continue Reading …
Eviradnus – (Départ de l’aventurier pour l’aventure)
I know not if the rock, or tree o’erhead,
Had heard their speech;—but when the two spoke low,
Among the trees, a shudder seemed to go … Continue Reading …
The Soudan, the Sphinxes, the Cup, the Lamp – (Zim-Zizimi – fr)
Zim Zizimi—(of the Soudan of burnt Egypt,
The Commander of Believers, a Bashaw
Whose very robes were from Asia’s greatest stript, … Continue Reading …
A Queen Five Summers Old
She is so little—in her hands a rose:
A stern duenna watches where she goes,
What sees Old Spain’s Infanta—the clear shine … Continue Reading …
Sea Adventurers’ Song
We told thirty when we started
From port so taut and fine,
But soon our crew were parted, … Continue Reading …
The Swiss Mercenaries
When the regiment of Halberdiers
Is proudly marching by,
The eagle of the mountain screams … Continue Reading …
The Cup on the Battle-Field
My sire, the hero with the smile so soft,
And a tall trooper, his companion oft,
Whom he loved greatly for his courage high … Continue Reading …
How Good are the Poor
‘Tis night—within the close stout cabin door,
The room is wrapped in shade save where there fall
Some twilight rays that creep along the floor, … Continue Reading …
LA VOIX DE GUERNESEY.
Mentana
Young soldiers of the noble Latin blood,
How many are ye—Boys? Four thousand odd.
How many are there dead? Six hundred: count! … Continue Reading …
LES CHANSONS DES RUES ET DES BOIS.
July 14th celebration in the forest
How joyful it is today,
The oak with its countless branches,
Mysterious support point … Continue Reading …
Love of the Woodland
Orpheus, through the hellward wood
Hurried, ere the eve-star glowed,
For the fauns’ lugubrious hoots … Continue Reading …
Shooting Stars
See the scintillating shower!
Like a burst from golden mine—
Incandescent coals that pour … Continue Reading …
L’ANNÉE TERRIBLE.
To Little Jeanne
You’ve lived a year, then, yesterday, sweet child,
Prattling thus happily! So fledglings wild,
New-hatched in warmer nest ‘neath sheltering bough, … Continue Reading …
To a Sick Child during the Siege of Paris
… Continue Reading …
The Carrier Pigeon
… Continue Reading …
Toys and Tragedy
… Continue Reading …
Mourning
… Continue Reading …
The Lesson of the Patriot Dead
… Continue Reading …
The Boy on the Barricade
… Continue Reading …
To His Orphan Grandchildren
… Continue Reading …
To the Cannon “Victor Hugo”
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L’ART D’ÊTRE GRANDPÈRE.
The Children of the Poor
… Continue Reading …
The Epic of the Lion
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LES QUATRE VENTS DE L’ESPRIT.
On Hearing the Princess Royal Sing
… Continue Reading …
My Happiest Dream
… Continue Reading …
An Old-Time Lay
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Jersey
… Continue Reading …
Then, most, I Smile
… Continue Reading …
The Exile’s Desire
… Continue Reading …
The Refugee’s Haven
… Continue Reading …
VARIOUS PIECES.
To the Napoleon Column
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Charity
… Continue Reading …
Sweet Sister
… Continue Reading …
The Pity of the Angels
… Continue Reading …
The Sower
… Continue Reading …
Oh, Why not be Happy?
… Continue Reading …
Freedom and the World
… Continue Reading …
Serenade
… Continue Reading …
An Autumnal Simile
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To Cruel Ocean
… Continue Reading …
Esmeralda in Prison
… Continue Reading …
Lover’s Song
… Continue Reading …
A Fleeting Glimpse of a Village
… Continue Reading …
Lord Rochester’s Song
… Continue Reading …
The Beggar’s Quatrain
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The Quiet Rural Church
… Continue Reading …
A Storm Simile
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DRAMATIC PIECES.
The Father’s Curse
… Continue Reading …
Paternal Love
… Continue Reading …
The Degenerate Gallants
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The Old and the Young Bridegroom
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The Spanish Lady’s Love
… Continue Reading …
The Lover’s Sacrifice
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The Old Man’s Love
… Continue Reading …
The Roll of the De Silva Race
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The Lover’s Colloquy
… Continue Reading …
Cromwell and the Crown
… Continue Reading …
Milton’s Appeal to Cromwell
… Continue Reading …
First Love
… Continue Reading …
The First Black Flag
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The Son in Old Age
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The Emperor’s Return
… Continue Reading …
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