Love Poems – Page 2496
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To Giulia Grisi
When the rose is brightest, / Its bloom will soonest die; / When burns the meteor brightest, … -
The Swamp Fox
We follow where the Swamp Fox guides, / His friends and merry men are we; / And when the troop of Tarleton rides, … -
The Lost Pleiad
Not in the sky, / Where it was seen / So long in eminence of light serene,— … -
The Decay of a People
This the true sign of ruin to a race— / It undertakes no march, and day by day / Drowses in camp, or, with the laggard’s pace, … -
Song in March
Now are the winds about us in their glee, / Tossing the slender tree; / Whirling the sands about his furious car, … -
Old
By the wayside, on a mossy stone, / Sat a hoary pilgrim sadly musing; / Oft I marked him sitting there alone, … -
Sparkling and Bright
Sparkling and bright in liquid light, / Does the wine our goblets gleam in, / With hue as red as the rosy bed … -
Monterey
We were not many—we who stood / Before the iron sleet that day— / Yet many a gallant spirit would … -
The Mint Julep
’t is said that the gods on Olympus of old / (And who the bright legend profanes with a doubt?) / One night, ’mid their revels, by Bacchus were told … -
Hymn to the Night
I heard the trailing garments of the Night / Sweep through her marble halls! / I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light …
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