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A Canticle
O the precipice Titanic
Of the congregated Fall,
And the angle oceanic … Continue Reading …
A Chant
That day, though to the convent brood
A holiday, was kept in mood
Of serious sort, yet took the tone … Continue Reading …
A Dirge for McPherson
Arms reversed and banners craped—
Muffled drums;
Snowy horses sable-draped— … Continue Reading …
A Grave near Petersburg, Virginia
Head-board and foot-board duly placed—
Grassed in the mound between;
Daniel Drouth is the slumberer’s name— … Continue Reading …
A Halt
In divers ways which vary it
Stones mention find in hallowed Writ:
Stones rolled from well-mouths, altar stones, … Continue Reading …
A Meditation
How often in the years that close,
When truce had stilled the sieging gun,
The soldiers, mounting on their works, … Continue Reading …
A Monument
Wise Derwent, that discourse to end,
Pointed athwart the dale divine:
“What’s yonder object–fountain? shrine? … Continue Reading …
A New-Comer
“Good echoes, echo it! Ho, chant,
‘Tis penalty we sinners want:
By all means, penalty!” … Continue Reading …
A Procession
But what!–nay, nay: without adieu
Of vital word, dear presence true,
Part shall I?–break away from love? … Continue Reading …
A Requiem
When, after storms that woodlands rue,
To valleys comes atoning dawn,
The robins blithe their orchard-sports renew; … Continue Reading …
A Sketch
Not knowing them in very heart,
Nor why to join him they were loth,
He, disappointed, moved apart, … Continue Reading …
A Transition
“Fine, very fine,” said Derwent light;
“But, look, yon rustics there in sight
Crossing the slope; and are they not … Continue Reading …
A Utilitarian View Of The monitor’s fight
Plain be the phrase, yet apt the verse,
More ponderous than nimble;
For since grimed War here laid aside … Continue Reading …
A Utilitarian View Of The monitor’s fight
Plain be the phrase, yet apt the verse,
More ponderous than nimble;
For since grimed War here laid aside … Continue Reading …
Abdon
A lamp in archway hangs from key—
A lamp whose sidelong rays are shed
On a slim vial set in bed … Continue Reading …
Afterwards
“Seedsmen of old Saturn’s land,
Love and peace went hand in hand,
And sowed the Era Golden! … Continue Reading …
America
Where the wings of a sunny Dome expand
I saw a Banner in gladsome air—
Starry, like Berenice’s Hair— … Continue Reading …
An Epitaph
When Sunday tidings from the front
Made pale the priest and people, … Continue Reading …
An Intruder
Quiet Agath, with a start, just then
Shrieked out, abhorrent or in fright.
Disturbed in its pernicious den … Continue Reading …
An Uninscribed Monument
Silence and solitude may hint
(Whose home is in yon piney wood)
What I, though tableted, could never tell— … Continue Reading …
Apathy and Enthusiasm
O the clammy cold November,
And the winter white and dead,
And the terror dumb with stupor, … Continue Reading …
Arculf and Adamnan
In spot revered by myriad men,
Whence, as alleged, Immanuel rose
Into the heaven–receptive then– … Continue Reading …
Art
In placid hours well-pleased we dream
Of many a brave unbodied scheme.
But form to lend, pulsed life create, … Continue Reading …
At Table
As shipwrecked men adrift, whose boat
In war-time on the houseless seas
Draws nigh to some embattled hull … Continue Reading …
At the Cannon’s Mouth
Palely intent, he urged his keel
Full on the guns, and touched the spring;
Himself involved in the bolt he drove … Continue Reading …
Aurora Borealis
What power disbands the Northern Lights
After their steely play?
The lonely watcher feels an awe … Continue Reading …
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Ball’s Bluff
One noonday, at my window in the town,
I saw a sight—saddest that eyes can see—
Young soldiers marching lustily … Continue Reading …
Battle of Stone River
With Tewksbury and Barnet heath
In days to come the field shall blend,
The story dim and date obscure; … Continue Reading …
Before the Gate
‘Tis Kedron, that profound ravine
Whence Saba soars. And all between
Zion and Saba one may stray, … Continue Reading …
Bell and Caim
“ELOI LAMA SABACHTHANI!”
And, swooning, strove no more.
Nor gone … Continue Reading …
Bethlehem
Over uplands now toward eve they pass
By higher uplands tinged with grass.
Lower it crept as they went on– … Continue Reading …
Beyond the Walls
In street at hand a silence reigns
Which Nature’s hush of loneness feigns.
Few casements, few, and latticed deep, … Continue Reading …
Bridegroom Dick
Sunning ourselves in October on a day
Balmy as spring, though the year was in decay,
I lading my pipe, she stirring her tea, … Continue Reading …
By Anchor
Jerusalem, the mountain town
Is based how far above the sea;
But down, a lead-line’s long reach down, … Continue Reading …
By Parapet
“Well may ye gaze! What’s good to see
Better than Adam’s humanity
When genial lodged! Such spell is given, … Continue Reading …
By Places
On Salem’s surface undermined,
Lo, present alley, lane or wynd
Obscure, which pilgrims seldom gain … Continue Reading …
By the Garden
Sheep-tracks they’d look, at distance seen,
Did any herbage border them,
Those slender foot-paths slanting lean … Continue Reading …
By The Jordan
On the third morn, a misty one,
Equipped they sally for the wave
Of Jordan. With his escort brown … Continue Reading …
By the Marge
The legend round a Grecian urn,
The sylvan legend, though decay
Have wormed the garland all away, … Continue Reading …
By the Stone
Over against the Temple here
A monastery unrestored–
Named from Prediction of Our Lord– … Continue Reading …
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Celio
But ere they meet in place assigned,
It needs–to make the sequel clear—
A crossing thread be first entwined. … Continue Reading …
Chattanooga
A kindling impulse seized the host
Inspired by heaven’s elastic air;
Their hearts outran their General’s plan, … Continue Reading …
Clarel
Upon the morrow’s early morn
Clarel is up, and seeks the Urn.
Advancing towards the fane’s old arch … Continue Reading …
Clarel and Glaucon
Now slanting toward the mountain’s head
They round its southern shoulder so;
That immemorial path they tread … Continue Reading …
Clarel and Ruth
In northern clime how tender show
The meads beneath heaven’s humid Bow
When showers draw off and dew-drops cling … Continue Reading …
Commemorative Of A Naval Victory
Sailors there are of the gentlest breed,
Yet strong, like every goodly thing;
The discipline of arms refines, … Continue Reading …
Concerning Hebrews
As by the wood drifts thistle-down
And settles on soft mosses fair,
Stillness was wafted, dropped and sown; … Continue Reading …
Crossing The Tropics
While now the Pole Star sinks from sight
The Southern Cross it climbs the sky;
But losing thee, my love, my light, … Continue Reading …
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David’s Well
The Lyonese had joined a train
Whereof the man of scars was one
Whose office led him further on … Continue Reading …
Derwent
At night upon the darkling main
To ship return with muffled sound
The rowers without comment vain– … Continue Reading …
Derwent and Rolfe
There as they wend, Derwent his arm,
Demure, and brotherly, and grave,
Slips into Rolfe’s: “A bond we have; … Continue Reading …
Derwent and the Lesbian
If where, in blocks unbeautified,
But lath and plaster may divide
The cot of dole from bed of bride; … Continue Reading …
Derwent and Ungar
“Not thou com’st in the still small voice,”
Said Derwent, “thou queer Mexican!”
And followed him with eyes: “This man,” … Continue Reading …
Derwent with the Abbot
‘Tis travel teaches much that’s strange,
Mused Derwent in his further range;
Then fell into uneasy frame: … Continue Reading …
Dirge
We drop our dead in the sea,
The bottomless, bottomless sea;
Each bubble a hollow sigh, … Continue Reading …
Dirge
Stay, Death. Not mine the Christus-wand
Wherewith to charge thee and command:
I plead. Most gently hold the hand … Continue Reading …
Disquiet
At breakfast in refectory there
The priest–if Clarel not mistook–
The good priest wore the troubled air … Continue Reading …
Donelson
The bitter cup
Of that hard countermand
Which gave the Envoys up, … Continue Reading …
Dupont’s Round Fight
In time and measure perfect moves
All Art whose aim is sure;
Evolving rhyme and stars divine … Continue Reading …
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Easter
BUT ON THE THIRD DAY CHRIST AROSE;
And, in the town He knew, the rite
Commemorative eager goes … Continue Reading …
Empty Stirrups
The gray of dawn. A tremor slight:
The trouble of imperfect light
Anew begins. In floating cloud … Continue Reading …
Epilogue
Unmoved by all the claims our times avow,
The ancient Sphinx still keeps the porch of shade;
And comes Despair, whom not her calm may cow, … Continue Reading …
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Far Off-Shore
Look, the raft, a signal flying,
Thin—a shred;
None upon the lashed spars lying, … Continue Reading …
Flight of the Greeks
“King, who betwixt the cross and sword
On ashes died in cowl and cord–
In desert died; and, if thy heart … Continue Reading …
Formerly A Slave
The sufferance of her race is shown,
And retrospect of life,
Which now too late deliverance dawns upon; … Continue Reading …
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Gettysburg
O pride of the days in prime of the months
Now trebled in great renown,
When before the ark of our holy cause … Continue Reading …
Gold
We rovers bold,
To the land of Gold,
Over the bowling billows are gliding: … Continue Reading …
Guide and Guard
Descending by the mountain side
When crags give way to pastures wide,
And lower opening, ever new, … Continue Reading …
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Herba Santa
After long wars when comes release
Not olive wands proclaiming peace
Can import dearer share … Continue Reading …
Hermitage
Through such retreats of dubious end
Behold the saint and student wend,
Stirring the dust that here may keep … Continue Reading …
Huts
The stone huts face the stony wall
Inside–the city’s towering screen–
Leaving a reptile lane between … Continue Reading …
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In Confdence
Towers twain crown Saba’s mountain hight;
And one, with larger outlook bold,
Monks frequent climb or day or night … Continue Reading …
In Mid-Watch
Disturbed by topics canvassed late,
Clarel, from dreams of like debate,
Started, and heard strange muffled sounds, … Continue Reading …
In Moonlight
The roller upon Borneo’s strand
Halts not, but in recoiling throe
Drags back the shells involved with sand, … Continue Reading …
In Saddle
OF OLD, if legend truth aver,
With hearts that did in aim concur,
Three mitered kings–Amerrian, … Continue Reading …
In the Glen
If Savonarola’s zeal devout
But with the fagot’s flame died out;
If Leopardi, stoned by Grief, … Continue Reading …
In the Mountain
WHAT REVERIES be in yonder heaven
Whither, if yet faith rule it so,
The tried and ransomed natures flow? … Continue Reading …
In The Prison Pen
Listless he eyes the palisades
And sentries in the glare;
’Tis barren as a pelican-beach … Continue Reading …
In the Turret
Your honest heart of duty, Worden,
So helped you that in fame you dwell;
You bore the first iron battle’s burden … Continue Reading …
Inscription
Let none misgive we died amiss
When here we strove in furious fight:
Furious it was; nathless was this … Continue Reading …
Inscription for Marye’s Heights, Fredericksburg
To them who crossed the flood
And climbed the hill, with eyes … Continue Reading …
Invocation
Ha, ha, gods and kings; fill high, one and all;
Drink, drink! shout and drink! mad respond to the call!
Fill fast, and fill full; ’gainst the goblet ne’er sin; … Continue Reading …
Jack Roy
Kept up by relays of generations young
Never dies at halyards the blithe chorus sung;
While in sands, sounds, and seas where the storm-petrels cry, … Continue Reading …
John Marr And Other Sailors
Since as in night’s deck-watch ye show,
Why, lads, so silent here to me,
Your watchmate of times long ago? … Continue Reading …
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L’envoi
My towers at last! These rovings end,
Their thirst is slaked in larger dearth:
The yearning infinite recoils, … Continue Reading …
Lee in the Capitol
Hard pressed by numbers in his strait,
Rebellion’s soldier-chief no more contends—
Feels that the hour is come of Fate, … Continue Reading …
Lines Traced Under An Image Of Amor Threatening
Fear me, virgin whosoever
Taking pride from love exempt, … Continue Reading …
Lone Founts
Though fast youth’s glorious fable flies,
View not the world with worldling’s eyes;
Nor turn with weather of the time. … Continue Reading …
Look-out Mountain
Who inhabiteth the Mountain
That it shines in lurid light,
And is rolled about with thunders, … Continue Reading …
Lot’s Sea
Roving along the winding verge
Trying these problems as a lock,
Clarel upon the further marge … Continue Reading …
Lower Gihon
Well for the student, might it last,
This dreamful frame which Lethe bred:
Events obtruded, and it passed. … Continue Reading …
Lyon
Some hearts there are of deeper sort,
Prophetic, sad,
Which yet for cause are trebly clad; … Continue Reading …
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Magnanimity Baffled
“Sharp words we had before the fight;
But—now the fight is done—
Look, here’s my hand,” said the Victor bold, … Continue Reading …
Malvern Hill
Ye elms that wave on Malvern Hill
In prime of morn and May,
Recall ye how McClellan’s men … Continue Reading …
Man and Bird
“Yes, pat it comes in here for me:
He says, that one fine day at sea–
‘Twas when he younger was and spry– … Continue Reading …
Marlena
Far off in the sea is Marlena,
A land of shades and streams,
A land of many delights, … Continue Reading …
Matron and Maid
Days fleet. No vain enticements lure
Clarel to Agar’s roof. Her tact
Prevailed: the Rabbi might not act … Continue Reading …
Misgivings
When ocean-clouds over inland hills
Sweep storming in late autumn brown,
And horror the sodden valley fills, … Continue Reading …
Monody
To have known him, to have loved him
After loneness long;
And then to be estranged in life, … Continue Reading …
Mortmain and the Palm
“See him!–How all your threat he braves,
Saba! your ominous architraves
Impending, stir him not a jot. … Continue Reading …
Mortmain Reappears
While now at poise the wings of shade
Outstretched overhang each ridge and glade,
Mortmain descends from Judah’s hight … Continue Reading …
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Nathan
Nathan had sprung from worthy stock—
Austere, ascetical, but free,
Which hewed their way from sea-beat rock … Continue Reading …
Night
Like sails convened when calms delay
Off the twin forelands on fair day,
So, on Damascus’ plain behold … Continue Reading …
Night in Jericho
Look how a pine in luckless land
By fires autumnal overrun,
Abides a black extinguished brand … Continue Reading …
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Obsequies
The camel’s skull upon the beach
No more the sluggish waters reach–
No more the languid waters lave; … Continue Reading …
Of Deserts
Tho’ frequent in the Arabian waste
The pilgrim, up ere dawn of day,
Inhale thy wafted musk, Cathay; … Continue Reading …
Of Monasteries
The lake ink-black mid slopes of snow–
The dead-house for the frozen, barred–
And the stone hospice; chill they show … Continue Reading …
Of Mortmain
“Our friend there–he’s a little queer,”
To Rolfe said Derwent riding on;
“Beshrew me, there is in his tone … Continue Reading …
Of Petra
“The City Red in cloud-land lies
Yonder,” said Derwent, quick to inter
The ill, or light regard transfer: … Continue Reading …
Of Pope and Turk
Marking the priest not all sedate,
Rolfe, that a friend might fret discard,
Turned his attention to debate … Continue Reading …
Of Rama
That Rama whom the Indian sung–
A god he was, but knew it not;
Hence vainly puzzled at the wrong … Continue Reading …
Of Rome
“Patcher of the rotten cloth,
Pickler of the wing o’ the moth,
Toaster of bread stale in date, … Continue Reading …
Of the Crusaders
When sighting first the towers afar
Which girt the object of the war
And votive march—the Saviour’s Tomb, … Continue Reading …
Of the Many Mansions
“The Elysium of the Greek was given
By haughty bards, a hero-heaven;
No victim looked for solace there: … Continue Reading …
Of the Stranger
While Agath was his story telling
(Ere yet the ill thing worked surprise)
The officer with forest eyes … Continue Reading …
Of Traditions
Credit the Arab wizard lean,
And still at favoring hour are seen
(But not by Franks, whom doubts debar) … Continue Reading …
Of Wickedness the Word
Since, for the charity they knew,
None cared the exile to upbraid
Or further breast–while yet he threw, … Continue Reading …
Off Cape Colonna
Aloof they crown the foreland lone,
From aloft they loftier rise—
Fair columns, in the aureole rolled … Continue Reading …
Old Counsel
Come out of the Golden Gate,
Go round the Horn with streamers, … Continue Reading …
On a natural Monument in a Field of Georgia
No trophy this—a Stone unhewn,
And stands where here the field immures
The nameless brave whose palms are won. … Continue Reading …
On Sherman’s Men who fell in the Assault of Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia
They said that Fame her clarion dropped
Because great deeds were done no more—
That even Duty knew no shining ends, … Continue Reading …
On The Grave Of A Young Cavalry Officer Killed In The Valley Of Virginia
Beauty and youth, with manners sweet, and friends—
Gold, yet a mind not unenriched had he … Continue Reading …
On the Home Guards who perished in the Defense of Lexington, Missouri
The men who here in harness died
Fell not in vain, though in defeat. … Continue Reading …
On the Men of Maine killed in the Victory of Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Afar they fell. It was the zone
Of fig and orange, cane and lime
(A land how all unlike their own, … Continue Reading …
On The Photograph Of A Corps Commander
Ay, man is manly. Here you see
The warrior-carriage of the head,
And brave dilation of the frame; … Continue Reading …
On The Slain At Chickamauga
Happy are they and charmed in life
Who through long wars arrive unscarred
At peace. To such the wreath be given, … Continue Reading …
On The Slain Collegians
Youth is the time when hearts are large,
And stirring wars
Appeal to the spirit which appeals in turn … Continue Reading …
On the Wall
They parted in the port. Near by,
Long stone stairs win the battlement
Of wall, aerial gallery; … Continue Reading …
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Passion Week
Day passed; and passed a second one,
A third–fourth–fifth; and bound he sate
In film of sorrow without moan– … Continue Reading …
Pebbles
Though the Clerk of the Weather insist,
And lay down the weather-law,
Pintado and gannet they wist … Continue Reading …
Pipe Song
Care is all stuff:—
Puff! Puff!
To puff is enough:— … Continue Reading …
Prelusive
In Piranesi’s rarer prints,
Interiors measurelessly strange,
Where the distrustful thought may range … Continue Reading …
Presentation to the Authorities by Privates of Colors captured in Battles ending in the Surrender of Lee
These flags of armies overthrown—
Flags fallen beneath the sovereign one
In end foredoomed which closes war; … Continue Reading …
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Rambles
Days fleet. They rove the storied ground—
Tread many a site that rues the ban
Where serial wrecks on wrecks confound … Continue Reading …
Rebel Color-Bearers At Shiloh
The color-bearers facing death
White in the whirling sulphurous wreath,
Stand boldly out before the line; … Continue Reading …
Rolfe
The hill above the garden here
They rove; and chance ere long to meet
A second stranger, keeping cheer … Continue Reading …
Rolfe and Derwent
They journey. And, as heretofore,
Derwent invoked his spirits bright
Against the wilds expanding more: … Continue Reading …
Rolfe and the Palm
Pursued, the mounted robber flies
Unawed through Kedron’s plunged demesne:
The clink, and clinking echo dies: … Continue Reading …
Running the Batteries
A moonless night—a friendly one;
A haze dimmed the shadowy shore
As the first lampless boat slid silent on; … Continue Reading …
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Saint and Student
“Nay, take it, friend in Christ,” and held
The book in proffer new; the while
His absent eyes of dreamy Eld … Continue Reading …
Shelley’s Vision
Wandering late by morning seas
When my heart with pain was low—
Hate the censor pelted me— … Continue Reading …
Sheridan At Cedar Creek
Shoe the steed with silver
That bore him to the fray,
When he heard the guns at dawning— … Continue Reading …
Shiloh
Skimming lightly, wheeling still,
The swallows fly low
Over the field in clouded days, … Continue Reading …
Sodom
Full night. The moon has yet to rise;
The air oppresses, and the skies
Reveal beyond the lake afar … Continue Reading …
Soldier and Monk
Fervid he spake. And Ungar there
Appeared (if looks allow surmise)
In latent way to sympathize, … Continue Reading …
Song and Recitative
“The chalice tall of beaten gold
Is hung with bells about:
The flamen serves in temple old, … Continue Reading …
Song Of Yoomy
Departed the pride, and the glory of Mardi:
The vaunt of her isles sleeps deep in the sea,
That rolls o’er his corse with a hush, … Continue Reading …
Stonewall Jackson
The Man who fiercest charged in fight,
Whose sword and prayer were long—
Stonewall! … Continue Reading …
Stonewall Jackson (ascribed to a Virginian)
One man we claim of wrought renown
Which not the North shall care to slur;
A Modern lived who sleeps in death, … Continue Reading …
Symphonies
Meanwhile with Vine there, Clarel stood
Aside in friendly neighborhood,
And felt a flattering pleasure stir … Continue Reading …
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Tents of Kedar
They climb. In Indian file they gain
A sheeted blank white lifted plain–
A moor of chalk, or slimy clay, … Continue Reading …
The Aeolian Harp
List the harp in window wailing
Stirred by fitful gales from sea:
Shrieking up in mad crescendo— … Continue Reading …
The Age Of The Antonines
While faith forecasts millennial years
Spite Europe’s embattled lines,
Back to the Past one glance be cast— … Continue Reading …
The Apostate
“Barque, Easter barque, with happier freight
Than Leon’s spoil of Inca plate;
Which vernal glidest from the strand … Continue Reading …
The Apparition
Abrupt the supernatural Cross,
Vivid in startled air,
Smote the Emperor Constantine … Continue Reading …
The Apparition
Convulsions came; and, where the field
Long slept in pastoral green,
A goblin-mountain was upheaved … Continue Reading …
The Arch
Blue-lights sent up by ship forlorn
Are answered oft but by the glare
Of rockets from another, torn … Continue Reading …
The Armies of the Wilderness
Like snows the camps on southern hills
Lay all the winter long,
Our levies there in patience stood— … Continue Reading …
The Banker
Infer the wilds which next pertain.
Though travel here be still a walk,
Small heart was theirs for easy talk. … Continue Reading …
The Battle for the Bay
O mystery of noble hearts,
To whom mysterious seas have been
In midnight watches, lonely calm and storm, … Continue Reading …
The Battle for the Mississippi
When Israel camped by Migdol hoar,
Down at her feet her shawm she threw,
But Moses sung and timbrels rung … Continue Reading …
The Beaker
“Life is not by square and line:
Wisdom’s stupid without folly:
Sherbet to-day, to-morrow winc … Continue Reading …
The Bench Of Boors
In bed I muse on Tenier’s boors,
Embrowned and beery losels all;
A wakeful brain … Continue Reading …
The Berg
I saw a ship of martial build
(Her standards set, her brave apparel on)
Directed as by madness mere … Continue Reading …
The Carpenter
From vehemence too mad to stem
Fain would they turn and solace them.
Turn where they may they find a dart. … Continue Reading …
The Cavalcade
A DOWN THE Dolorosa Lane
The mounted pilgrims file in train
Whose clatter jars each open space; … Continue Reading …
The Celibate
All distant through that afternoon
The student kept, nor might attune
His heart to any steadfast thought … Continue Reading …
The Church of the Star
They rise, and for a little space
In farewell Agath they detain,
Transferred here to a timelier train … Continue Reading …
The Close
Next day the wanderer drawing near
Saluting with his humble cheer,
Made Clarel start. Where now the look … Continue Reading …
The College Colonel
He rides at their head;
A crutch by his saddle just slants in view,
One slung arm is in splints, you see, … Continue Reading …
The Coming Storm
All feeling hearts must feel for him
Who felt this picture. Presage dim—
Dim inklings from the shadowy sphere … Continue Reading …
The Conflict of Convictions
On starry heights
A bugle wails the long recall;
Derision stirs the deep abyss, … Continue Reading …
The Convent Roof
To branching grottoes next they fare,
Old caves of penitence and prayer,
Where Paula kneeled–her urn is there– … Continue Reading …
The Cumberland
Some names there are of telling sound,
Whose voweled syllables free
Are pledge that they shall ever live renowned; … Continue Reading …
The Cypriote
“Noble gods at the board
Where lord unto lord
Light pushes the care-killing wine: … Continue Reading …
The Dominican
“Ah Rome, your tie! may child clean part?
Nay, tugs the mother at the heart!”
Strange voice that was which three there heard … Continue Reading …
The Eagle of the Blue
Aloft he guards the starry folds
Who is the brother of the star;
The bird whose joy is in the wind … Continue Reading …
The Easter Fire
“There’s politesse! we’re left behind.
And yet I like this Prince of Pith;
Too pithy almost. Where’ll ye find … Continue Reading …
The Encampment
Southward they find a strip at need
Between the mount and marge, and make,
In expectation of the Swede, … Continue Reading …
The Ensign
Needs well to know the distant site
(Like Agath, who late on the way
From Joppa here had made delay) … Continue Reading …
The Enthusiast
Shall hearts that beat no base retreat
In youth’s magnanimous years—
Ignoble hold it, if discreet … Continue Reading …
The Enviable Isles
Through storms you reach them and from storms are free.
Afar descried, the foremost drear in hue,
But, nearer, green; and, on the marge, the sea … Continue Reading …
The Fall of Richmond
What mean these peals from every tower,
And crowds like seas that sway?
The cannon reply; they speak the heart … Continue Reading …
The Figure-Head
The Charles-and-Emma seaward sped,
(Named from the carven pair at prow,)
He so smart, and a curly head, … Continue Reading …
The Fog
Southward they file. ‘Tis Pluto’s park
Beslimed as after baleful flood:
A nitrous, filmed and pallid mud, … Continue Reading …
The Fortitude Of The North
They take no shame for dark defeat
While prizing yet each victory won,
Who fight for the Right through all retreat, … Continue Reading …
The Fountain
It brake, it brake how long ago,
That rnorn which saw thy marvel done,
Elisha–healing of the spring! … Continue Reading …
The Frenzy in the Wake
So strong to suffer, shall we be
Weak to contend, and break
The sinews of the Oppressor’s knee … Continue Reading …
The Fulfillment
Such passion!–But have hearts forgot
That ties may form where words be not?
The spiritual sympathy … Continue Reading …
The Gate of Zion
As Clarel entered with the guide,
Beset they were by that sad crew–
With inarticulate clamor plied; … Continue Reading …
The Gibe
In the south wall, where low it creeps
Crossing the hollow down between
Moriah and Zion, by dust-heaps … Continue Reading …
The Good Craft snow Bird
Strenuous need that head-wind be
From purposed voyage that drives at last
The ship, sharp-braced and dogged still, … Continue Reading …
The Haglets
By chapel bare, with walls sea-beat
The lichened urns in wilds are lost
About a carved memorial stone … Continue Reading …
The Hamlet
In silence now they pensive win
A slope of upland over hill
Eastward, where heaven and earth be twin … Continue Reading …
The High Desert
Where silence and the legend dwell,
A cleft in Horeb is, they tell,
Through which upon one happy day … Continue Reading …
The Hillside
Pertaining unto nations three–
Or, rather, each unto its clan–
Greek, Latin, and Armenian, … Continue Reading …
The Hostel
IN CHAMBER low and scored by time,
Masonry old, late washed with lime—
Much like a tomb new-cut in stone; … Continue Reading …
The House-Top
No sleep. The sultriness pervades the air
And binds the brain—a dense oppression, such
As tawny tigers feel in matted shades, … Continue Reading …
The Inscription
While yet Rolfe’s foot in stirrup stood,
Ere the light vault that wins the seat,
Derwent was heard: “What’s this we meet? … Continue Reading …
The Invitation
Returned to harbor, Derwent sought
His Mexic friend; and him he found
At home in by-place of a court … Continue Reading …
The Island
“In waters where no charts avail,
Where only fin and spout ye see,
The lonely spout of hermit-whale, … Continue Reading …
The Land Of Love
Hail! voyagers, hail!
Whence e’er ye come, where’er ye rove,
No calmer strand, … Continue Reading …
The Maldive Shark
About the Shark, phlegmatical one,
Pale sot of the Maldive sea,
The sleek little pilot-fish, azure and slim, … Continue Reading …
The Man-Of-War Hawk
Yon black man-of-war-hawk that wheels in the light
O’er the black ship’s white sky-s’l, sunned cloud to the sight, … Continue Reading …
The March Into Virginia
Did all the lets and bars appear
To every just or larger end,
Whence should come the trust and cheer? … Continue Reading …
The March to the Sea
Not Kenesaw high-arching,
Nor Allatoona’s glen—
Though there the graves lie parching— … Continue Reading …
The Marchioness Of Brinvilliers
He toned the sprightly beam of morning
With twilight meek of tender eve,
Brightness interfused with softness, … Continue Reading …
The Martyr
Good Friday was the day
Of the prodigy and crime,
When they killed him in his pity, … Continue Reading …
The Masque
‘Tis night, with silence, save low moan
Of winds. By torches red in glen
A muffled man upon a stone … Continue Reading …
The Medallion
In Saba, as by one consent,
Frequent the pilgrims single went;
So, parting with his young compeer, … Continue Reading …
The Minster
Huge be the buttresses enmassed
Which shoulder up, like Titan men,
Against the precipices vast … Continue Reading …
The Mound By The Lake
The grass shall never forget this grave.
When homeward footing it in the sun
After the weary ride by rail, … Continue Reading …
The Mounds
Ere twilight and the shadow fall
On Zion hill without the wall
In place where Latins set the bier … Continue Reading …
The Muster
The Abrahamic river—
Patriarch of floods,
Calls the roll of all his streams … Continue Reading …
The New Zealot To The Sun
Persian, you rise
Aflame from climes of sacrifice
Where adulators sue, … Continue Reading …
The Night March
With banners furled and clarions mute,
An army passes in the night;
And beaming spears and helms salute … Continue Reading …
The Night Ride
It was the day preceding Lent,
Shrove Tuesday named in English old
(Forefathers’ English), and content, … Continue Reading …
The Pillow
When rule and era passed away
With old Sylvanus (stories say),
The oracles adrift were hurled, … Continue Reading …
The Portent
Hanging from the beam,
Slowly swaying (such the law),
Gaunt the shadow on your green, … Continue Reading …
The Priest and Rolfe
Derwent fetched breath: “A healthy man:
His lungs are of the soundest leather.”
“Health’s insolence in a Saurian,” … Continue Reading …
The Prodigal
In adolescence thrilled by hope
Which fain would verify the gleam
And find if destiny concur, … Continue Reading …
The Ravaged Villa
In shards the sylvan vases lie,
Their links of dance undone,
And brambles wither by thy brim, … Continue Reading …
The Recluse
Ere yet they win that verge and line,
Reveal the stranger. Name him–Vine.
His home to tell–kin, tribe, estate– … Continue Reading …
The Recoil
“But who was SHE (if Luke attest)
Whom generations hail for blest–
Immaculate though human one; … Continue Reading …
The Released Rebel Prisoner
Armies he’s seen—the herds of war,
But never such swarms of men
As now in the Nineveh of the North— … Continue Reading …
The returned Volunteer to his Rifle
Over the hearth—my father’s seat—
Repose, to patriot-memory dear, … Continue Reading …
The Revel Closed
“Bless that good chaplain,” Derwent here;
“All doves and halcyons round the sphere
Defend him from war’s rude alarms!” … Continue Reading …
The River-Rite
And do the clear sands pure and cold
At last each virgin elf enfold?
Under what drift of silvery spar … Continue Reading …
The Scout toward Aldie
The cavalry-camp lies on the slope
Of what was late a vernal hill,
But now like a pavement bare— … Continue Reading …
The Sepulchre
In Crete they claimed the tomb of Jove
In glen over which his eagles soar;
But thro’ a peopled town ye rove … Continue Reading …
The Shepherds’ Dale
“Up, up! Around morn’s standard rally
She makes a sortic join the sally:
Up, slugabeds; up, up!” … Continue Reading …
The Site of the Passion
And wherefore by the convents be
Gardens? Ascetics roses twine?
Nay, but there is a memory. … Continue Reading …
The Skull Cap
“See him in his uncheerful head-piece!
Libertad’s on the Mexic coin
Would better suit me for a shade-piece: … Continue Reading …
The Sleep-Walker
Now Nehemiah with wistful heart
Much heed had given to myths which bore
Upon that Pentateuchal shore; … Continue Reading …
The Sparrow
After the hint by Rolfe bestowed,
Redoubled import, one may ween,
Had Nehemiah’s submissive mien … Continue Reading …
The Start
The twilight and the starlight pass,
And breaks the morn of Candlemas.
The pilgrims muster; and they win … Continue Reading …
The Stone Fleet
I have a feeling for those ships,
Each worn and ancient one,
With great bluff bows, and broad in the beam: … Continue Reading …
The Surrender at Appomattox
As billows upon billows roll,
On victory victory breaks;
Ere yet seven days from Richmond’s fall … Continue Reading …
The Swamp Angel
There is a coal-black Angel
With a thick Afric lip,
And he dwells (like the hunted and harried) … Continue Reading …
The Syrian Monk
At early hour with Rolfe and Vine
Clarel ascends a minor hight;
They overtake in lone recline … Continue Reading …
The Tarry
“How solitary on the hill
Sitteth the city; and how still–
How still!” From Vine the murmur came– … Continue Reading …
The Temeraire
The gloomy hulls in armor grim,
Like clouds o’er moors have met,
And prove that oak, and iron, and man … Continue Reading …
The Timoneer’s Story
But ere those Sinbads had begun
Their Orient Decameron,
Rolfe rose, to view the further hall. … Continue Reading …
The Tower
The tower they win. Some Greeks at hand,
Pilgrims, in silence view the land.
One family group in listless tone … Continue Reading …
The Tuft Of Kelp
All dripping in tangles green,
Cast up by a lonely sea … Continue Reading …
The Valley of Decision
Delay!–Shall flute from forth the Gate
Issue, to warble welcome here–
Upon this safe returning wait … Continue Reading …
The Victor of Antietam
When tempest winnowed grain from bran;
And men were looking for a man,
Authority called you to the van, … Continue Reading …
The Votary
Sinner?—So spake the saint, a man
Long tarrying in Jewry’s court.
With him the faith so well could sort … Continue Reading …
The Wall of the Wail
Beneath the toppled ruins old
In series from Moriah rolled
Slips Kedron furtive? underground … Continue Reading …
Through Adommin
In order meet they take their way
Through Bahurim where David fled;
And Shimei like a beast of prey … Continue Reading …
Tidings
Some of the strangers late arrived
Tarried with Abdon at the inn;
And, ere long, having viewed the town … Continue Reading …
To Ned
Where is the world we roved, Ned Bunn?
Hollows thereof lay rich in shade
By voyagers old inviolate thrown … Continue Reading …
To The Master Of The meteor
Lonesome on earth’s loneliest deep,
Sailor! who dost thy vigil keep—
Off the Cape of Storms dost musing sweep … Continue Reading …
Tom Deadlight
During a tempest encountered homeward-bound from the Mediterranean, a grizzled petty-officer, one of the two captains of the forecastle, … Continue Reading …
Tomb and Fountain
Clarel and Ruth–might it but be
That range they could green uplands free
By gala orchards, when they fling … Continue Reading …
Tribes and Sects
He turned to go; he turned, but stood:
In many notes of varying keys,
From shrines like coves in Jordan’s wood … Continue Reading …
Twilight
In gloaming, ah, still do ye plain?
Dovc dove in the mangroves,
How dear is thy pain! … Continue Reading …
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Under the Minaret
“Lo, shoot the spikes above the hill:
Now expectation grows and grows;
Yet vain the pageant, idle still: … Continue Reading …
Under the Mountain
From Ur of the Chaldees roved the man–
Priest, shepherd, prince, and pioneer–
Swart Bedouin in time’s dusky van; … Continue Reading …
Ungar and Rolfe
“Such earnestness! such wear and tear,
And man but a thin gossamer!”
So here the priest aside; then turned, … Continue Reading …
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Vale of Ashes
Beyond the city’s thin resort
And northward from the Ephraim port
The Vale of Ashes keepeth place. … Continue Reading …
Vault and Grotto
But Clarel, bides he still by tower?
His was no sprightly frame; nor mate
He sought: it was his inner hour. … Continue Reading …
Via Crucis
Some leading thoroughfares of man
In wood-path, track, or trail began;
Though threading heart of proudest town, … Continue Reading …
Vine and Clarel
While now, to serve the pilgrim train,
The Arabs willow branches hew,
(For palms they serve in dearth of true), … Continue Reading …
Vine and the Palm
Along those ledges, up and down–
Through terce, sext, nones, in ritual flight
To vespers and mild evening brown; … Continue Reading …
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We Fish
We fish, we fish, we merrily swim,
We care not for friend nor for foe.
Our fins are stout, … Continue Reading …
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