#Americans
Oh, you are more desirable to me Than all I staked in an impulsive… Making my youth the sport of chanc… Blighted or torn in its most perfe… For I think less of what that cha…
Above the ruin of God’s holy plac… Where man-forsaken lay the bleedin… Whose hands, when men had craved s… Gave not, nor folded when they cri… I saw exalted in the latter days
Be my companion under cool arcades That frame some drowsy street and… Beyond whose flowers and palm-tree… White belfries burn in the blue tr… Lie near me in dim forests where t…
My spirit only lived to look on B… As only when they clasp the arms s… As in their flesh inheres the impu… To gaze on Loveliness was my soul… I have roamed far in search; white…
Amid the florid multitude her face Was like the full moon seen behind… Of orchard boughs where clouded bl… When Spring shines in the world a… As the full-moon-beams to the fern…
I fancied, while you stood convers… Superb, in every attitude a queen, Her ermine thus Boadicea bare, So moved amid the multitude Faust… My life, whose whole religion Bea…
In that fair capital where Pleasu… Amidst her myriad courtiers, riots… I too have been a suitor. Radiant… Were my life’s warmth and sunshine… My gilded deep horizons. I rejoic…
The lad I was I longer now Nor am nor shall be evermore. Spring’s lovely blossoms from my b… Have shed their petals on the floo… Thou, Love, hast been my lord, th…
At dusk, when lowlands where dark… Robe in gray mist, and through the… The hoot-owl calls his mate, and w… Clamor from every copse and orchar… I watched the red star rising in t…
Clouds rosy-tinted in the setting… Depths of the azure eastern sky be… Plains where the poplar-bordered h… Patched with a hundred tints of br… Beauty of Earth, when in thy harm…
I who, conceived beneath another s… Had been a prince and played with… Have been its slave, an outcast ex… From the fair things my faith has… My ways have been the ways that wa…
Who shall invoke her, who shall be… With single rites the common debt… On some green headland fronting to… Our fairest boy shall kneel at bre… Naked, uplifting in a laden tray
I have sought Happiness, but it h… A lovely rainbow, baffling all pur… And tasted Pleasure, but it was a… More fair of outward hue than swee… Renouncing both, a flake in the fe…
As one of some fat tillage disposs… Weighing the yield of these four f… If any ask what fruit seems loveli… What lasting gold among the garner… Ah, then I’ll say what hours I ha…
In the glad revels, in the happy f… When cheeks are flushed, and glass… With the sweet wine of France tha… The sunshine and the beauty of the… Drink sometimes, you whose footste…