The muffled syllables that Nature… Fill us with deeper longing for he… She hides a meaning that the spiri… She makes a sweeter music than is… A hidden light illumines all our s…
I could believe that I am here al… And all the world my dream; The passion of the scene is all my… And things that seem but seem. Perchance an exhalation of my sorr…
Lap, ripple, lap, Icarian wave, t… Along the ruins of this piteous la… Murmur the praises of a lost delig… And soothe the aching of my starve… With sheen of mirrored beauties, c…
Again my feet are on the fragrant… Amid the purple uplands of Castil… Realm proudly desolate and nobly p… Scorched by the sky’s inexorable z… Wide desert where a diadem of towe…
The buttress frowns, the gorgeous… The vaults hang wonderful with wov… The four stone sentinels to heaven… Their heads, in a more constant fa… The College gathers, and the cour…
What beauteous form beneath a marb… Awaited in this block the Master’… Could not the magic of his art ava… To unseal that beauty’s tomb and b… Alas! the torpid and unwilling mas…
The dank earth reeks with three da… The phantom trees are dark and sti… Above the darkness and the hill The tardy moon shines out again. O heavy lethargy of pain!
Too late, thou tender songster of… Trilling unseen, by things unseen… I list thy far-heard cry That poets oft to kindred song hat… As floating through the purple vei…
When scarce the echoes of Manila… Circling each slumbering billowy h… Had met where Spain’s forlorn Arm… Locked amid hostile hills, and whi… The double omen of that groan and…
Old Age, on tiptoe, lays her jewe… Lightly in mine.—Come, tread a st… Most gracious partner, nobly poise… Ours be no boisterous pleasure, But smiling conversation, with qui…
"Non so se s’è la desiata luce" I know not if from uncreated spher… Some longed-for ray it be that war… Or lesser light, in memory express… Of some once lovely face, that rea…
Art All things are doubly fair If patience fashion them And care— Verse, enamel, marble, gem.