Category: Poetry
Kathrina—A Poem
The fairest flower the green earth bears, Bright with the dew and light of heaven, Is, of the double life she wears, The type, in grace and glory given By soil and sun in equal shares.
Chapters
3. PART II.
As from a deep, dead sea, by drastic lift Of pent volcanic fires, the dripping form Of a new island swells to meet the air, And, after months of idle basking, feels The prickly...
4. PART III.Ten years of love!--a sleep, a pleasant dream That passed its culmen in the early half, Concluding in confusion--a wild scene Of bargains, auctions, partings, and what not?-- An...
2. PART I.Thou lovely vale of sweetest stream that flows: Winding and willow-fringed Connecticut! Swift to thy fairest scenes my fancy flies, As I recall the story of a life Which there b...
5. PART IV.A guest was in my house--a guest unbid-- Who stayed without a welcome from his host,-- So loathed and hated, on such errand bent, And armed with such resistless power of ill, I...
1. PART IV.The fairest flower the green earth bears, Bright with the dew and light of heaven, Is, of the double life she wears, The type, in grace and glory given By soil and sun in equal...