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Here was a man who watched the riv… Past the huge town, one gray Nove… Round him in narrow high-piled str… The boys made merry as they saw hi… Murmuring half-loud, with eyes upo…
(The Garden of Life in Spenser’s… IT is no fabled garden in the ski… But bloometh here—this is no world… And nothing that once liveth, ever… And naught that breathes can ever…
Light silken curtain, colorless an… Dreamlike before me floating! what… Behind thy pearly veil’s Opaque, mysterious woof? Where sleek red kine, and dappled,…
WEAK, slender blades of tender g… With little fragrance, little shee… What maketh ye so dear to all? Nor bud, nor flower, nor fruit hav… So tiny, it can only be
Weep, Israel! your tardy meed out… Of grateful homage on his fallen h… That never coronal of triumph wore… Untombed, dishonored, and unchaple… If Victory makes the hero, raw Su…
ORPHEUS. LAUGHTER and dance, and sounds… Piping of flutes, singing of festa… Ribbons of flame from flaunting to… By the broad summer sunshine, thes…
WELCOME, thou gray and fragran… To deathless love and valor dedica… Glorious with the richest flowers… With early roses, lingering lilacs… With vivid green of grass and leaf…
The fervent, pale-faced Mother er… Looks out upon the zigzag-lighted… The beautiful bare trees, the blue… The revelation of the star-strewn… World above world, and heaven over…
Weep for the martyr! Strew his bi… With the last roses of the year; Shadow the land with sables; knell The harsh-tongued, melancholy bell… Beat the dull muffled drum, and fl…
Small, shapeless drifts of cloud Sail slowly northward in the soft-… With blur half-tints and rolling s… By the late sun caressed; slight h… All things afar; shineth each leaf…
The Landgrave Hermann held a gath… Of minstrels, minnesingers, trouba… At Wartburg in his palace, and th… Sir Tannhauser of France, the gre… Inspired with heavenly visions, an…
Twilight is here, soft breezes bow… Day’s sounds of various toil break… The yoke-freed oxen low, the patie… Dips his dry nostril in the cool,… Up from the prairie the tanned her…
Over the lamp-lit street, Trodden by hurrying feet, Where mostly pulse and beat Life’s throbbing veins, See where the April star,
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…
Master and Sage, greetings and he… From thy most meek disciple! Deig… Endure me at thy feet, enlighten m… As when upon my boyish head of yor… Midst the rapt circle gathered rou…