Category: Romance
Once a realm of Indian glory, Famed in Aztec song and story, Fabled by Tradition hoary As an earthly Paradise; Now a land of love romances, Serenades, bolero dances, Looks of scorn, adoring glances, Under burning tropic skies.
Once a realm of Indian glory, Famed in Aztec song and story, Fabled by Tradition hoary As an earthly Paradise; Now a land of love romances, Serenades, bolero dances, Looks of sc...
2. CHAPTER I.Oh, leave the south, the languid south, Its cloudless skies, its weary calms; The land of heat, and glare, and drouth, Where aloes bloom, and spring the palms. There water is th...
3. CHAPTER II.Here, where mingle rocks and sands, Phantom-like the city stands, Looming vague and ghostly pale, Through the dawning's misty veil. Day and night, and night and day, At the foot...
4. CHAPTER III.A visionary? Wherefore not? All men Who change the world are dreamers in their youth. Thought comes before fulfilment!--in the earth, The hidden seedling hints the future flower...
5. CHAPTER IV.I this side! You that side!--a woman between us, You love her!--I love her!--each fain would caress her. By Paul, I will never surrender this Venus, For I in my arms would for e...
6. CHAPTER V.Weary body, aching brain, Tortured mind, and heavy soul, Fourfold being, one existence! Life with troublous insistence, To ye brings but constant dole, Ceaseless weeping, endles...
7. CHAPTER VI.Lord of the humming-bird's foot! Behold thy worshippers rising and falling in adoration before thee, as rise and fall the restless waves of the far-reaching ocean. These thousan...
8. CHAPTER VII.Time is fond of strange surprises, Ne'er we know what is before us; Acting as stern Fate advises, Time is fond of strange surprises. Empires fall, a nation rises, Those who hate...
9. CHAPTER VIII.The sacred drums of serpents' skins Send forth their muffled roar afar; Before the shrine the opal spins, A changing star! That flashes rays of rainbow light From out its breast...
10. CHAPTER IX.It was fifty miles from Totatzine to the coast. Dolores being a woman, and weak, Jack, owing to illness, not being quite so strong as usual, they found it difficult to do more o...
11. CHAPTER X.Frown, Fortune, frown, For I am much cast down, And tears do melancholy make my face; In sable gown, With sad yew-wreath as crown, I rail at you, Oh, Fortune, most untrue, For t...
12. CHAPTER XI.One kiss! 'tis our last one; the horses await, And swift through the midnight I ride to my fate. 'Tis life for thy lover, or death it may be, But living or dying, my thought is...
13. CHAPTER XII."Wot! fightin'?" said the sailor man to me (He was wooden-legged and close on eighty-three). "Why, bless 'ee, sir, who knows what fightin' are, When iron pots is classed as men-...
14. CHAPTER XIII.Walls of stone like mountains rise, Grey against the morning skies; Still the royal banner flies, Watched with hate by rebels' eyes. And around the ramparts grey, In the mists a...