It was the schooner Hesperus,
That sailed the wintry...
When winter winds are piercing chill,
And through the...
In Ocean's wide domains,
Half buried in the sands,
In his lodge beside a river,
Close beside a frozen...
Beware! The Israelite of old, who tore
The lion in his...
To Alfred Tennyson
Poet! I come to touch thy lance...
Vogelweid the Minnesinger,
When he left this world of...
PRELUDE.
Pleasant it was, when woods were green,
Under a spreading chestnut tree
The village smithy...
With favoring winds, o'er sunlit seas,
We sailed...
The pages of thy book I read,
And as I closed each...
River! that in silence windest
Through the meadows,...
Gloomy and dark art thou, O chief of the mighty Omahas;
Welcome, my old friend,
Welcome to a foreign fireside,
Dear child! how radiant on thy mother's knee,
With...
The tide rises, the tide falls,
The twilight darkens, the...
There was a little girl,
Who had a little curl,
Right...
It was the schooner Hesperus,
That sailed the wint'ry...
In Ocean's wide domains,
Half buried in the...
The White Czar is Peter the Great. Batyushka, Father dear,...
In his lodge beside a river,
Close beside a frozen...
A mist was driving down the British Channel,
The day was...
Under a spreading chestnut tree
The village smithy...
The tide rises, the tide falls,
The twilight darkens, the...
Three Kings came riding from far away,
Melchior and Gaspar...