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Well-nigh two thousand years hath… Suffered the scorn of man for love… Endured the outlaw’s ban, the yoke… With perfect patience. Empires ro… Around him Nebo was adored and Be…
THE holy bell, untouched by human… Clanged suddenly, and tolled with… Between the massive, blazoned temp… Thrown wide, to let the summer mor… Sir Lohengrin, the youngest of th…
Across the Eastern sky has glowed The flicker of a blood-red dawn, Once more the clarion cock has cro… Once more the sword of Christ is… A million burning rooftrees light
We sat at twilight nigh the sea, The fog hung gray and weird. Through the thick film uncannily The broken moon appeared. We heard the billows crack and plu…
If the sudden tidings came That on some far, foreign coast, Buried ages long from fame, Had been found a remnant lost Of that hoary race who dwelt
The swallows made twitter incessan… The thrushes were wild with their… The ways and the woods were made p… And the flowering nooks of the ear… And the sunshine sufficed to rejoi…
The grass of fifty Aprils hath wa… Above the spent heart, the Olympi… The hands crost idly, the shut eye… Unseeing, the locked lips whose so… Yet mystic-lived, like some rich,…
Rosh-Hashanah, 5643 Not while the snow-shroud round de… And naked branches point to frozen… When orchards burn their lamps of… The grape glows like a jewel, and…
Would I had waked this morn where… A-bloom with beauty, a white rose… Yet rich in sacred dust, in storie… Precious past all the wealth of I… From olive-hoary Fiesole to feed
I saw in dream the spirits unbegot… Veiled, floating phantoms, lost in… For one the hour had struck, he pa… Rang with an awful Voice: ‘Soul, choose thy lot!
GRAY-VESTED Dawn, with flamel… Cool hands, and dewy lips, is in t… A sober nun, with starry rosary. With eyes downcast and with uplift… She seems to whisper now her silen…
Come closer, kind, white, long-fam… Embrace me, fold me to thy broad,… Life has grown strange and cold, b… Mild eyes of blessing wooing to my… So often hast thou come, and from…
As when a father dies, his childre… About the empty hearth, their loss… With uttered praise & love, &a… His all-familiar words with whispe… The honored habit of his daily law…
Light silken curtain, colorless an… Dreamlike before me floating! what… Behind thy pearly veil’s Opaque, mysterious woof? Where sleek red kine, and dappled,…
Spoken by a Citizen of Malta-1300… A curious title held in high reput… One among many honors, thickly str… On my lord Bishop’s head, his gra… Nobly he bears them all,-with tact…