Poems

With laugh and song they to the table went. Said Mahaud gayly: "It is my intent To make Joss chamberlain. Zeno shall be A constable supreme of high degree." All three were joyou...

Zim Zizimi--(of the Soudan of burnt Egypt, The Commander of Believers, a Bashaw Whose very robes were from Asia's greatest stript, More powerful than any lion with resistless pa...

A king should listen when his subjects speak: 'Tis true your mandate led me to the block, Where pardon came upon me, like a dream; I blessed you then, unconscious as I was That...

But he saw nothing; space was black--no sound. "Forward," said Canute, raising his proud head. There fell a second stain beside the first, Then it grew larger, and the Cimbrian...

At Malta Dick became a monk-- (What vineyards have those priests!) And Gobbo to quack-salver sunk, To leech vile murrained beasts; And lazy André, blown off shore, Was picked up...

The chant of distant choirs, the morning's sigh, Which erst inspired the fabled Memnon's frame,-- The melodies that, hummed, so trembling die,-- The sweetest gems that 'mid thou...

Oh, France! oh, People! sleeping unabashed! Liest thou like a hound when it was lashed? Thou liest! thine own blood fouling both thy hands, And on thy limbs the rust of iron ban...

"The sky is pure, the sparkling stream is clear: Unloose your zones, my maidens! and fling down To float awhile upon these bushes near Your blue transparent robes: take off my c...

The darkened city breathed no more; The moon was mantled long, Till towers thrust the cloudy cloak Upon the steeples' throng; The crossway Christ, in ivy draped, Shrank, grievin...

Morning glances hither, Now the shade is past; Dream and fog fly thither Where Night goes at last; Open eyes and roses As the darkness closes; And the sound that grows is Nature...

With tyrant dead your fathers traced A circle wide, with battles graced; Victorious garland, red and vast! Which blooming out from home did go To Cadiz, Cairo, Rome, Moscow, Fro...

Two monstrous dangers; but the heedless one Babbles and smiles, and bids all care begone-- Likes lively speech--while all the poor she makes To love her, and the taxes off she t...

"Speak to me, comely Faun, as you would speak To tree, or zephyr, or untrodden grass. Have you, O Greek, O mocker of old days, Have you not sometimes with that oblique eye Winke...

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, Whose watchf...

But mine! no matter what you do, My poetry is all in you; You are my inspiration bright That gives my verse its purest light. Children whose life is made of hope, Whose joy, wit...

King Louis XVII--_Dublin University Magazine_ The Feast of Freedom--_"Father Prout" (F.S. Mahony)_ Genius--_Mrs. Torre Hulme_ The Girl of Otaheite--_Clement Scott_ Nero's Incend...

A lion camped beside a spring, where came the Bird Of Jove to drink: When, haply, sought two kings, without their courtier herd, The moistened brink, Beneath the palm--_they_ al...

For certes, though he raged and wept, His majesty, like all, close shelter kept, Solicitous to live, holding his breath Specially precious to the realm. Now death Is not thus vi...

Sand, sand, and still more sand! The desert! Fearful land! Teeming with monsters dread And plagues on every hand! Here in an endless flow, Sandhills of golden glow, Where'er the...

DIDIER. You love me? Beware, nor with light lips utter that word. You love me!--know you what it is to love With love that is the life-blood in one's veins, The vital air we bre...