Love Poems – Page 2814
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The Sunset City
There ’s a city that lies in the Kingdom of Clouds, / In the glorious country on high, / Which an azure and silvery curtain enshrouds, … -
The Nile
It flows through old, hushed Ægypt and its sands, / Like some grave, mighty thought threading a dream; / And times and things, as in that vision, seem … -
Christmas in India
Dim dawn behind the tamarisks—the sky is saffron-yellow— / As the women in the village grind the corn, / And the parrots seek the river-side, each calling to his fellow … -
The Orient
From “The Bride of Abydos” / KNOW ye the land where the cypress and myrtle / Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime; … -
The Vale of Cashmere
From “The Light of the Harem” / WHO has not heard of the Vale of Cashmere, / With its roses the brightest that earth ever gave, … -
The Rhine
To His Sister / “Childe Harold,” Canto III. / THE CASTLED crag of Drachenfels … -
The Cataract of Lodore
Described in “Rhymes for the Nursery” / “HOW does the water / Come down at Lodore!” … -
The Old Bridge at Florence
Taddeo Gaddi built me. I am old, / Five centuries old. I plant my foot of stone / Upon the Arno, as Saint Michael’s own … -
The White Peacock
From “Sospiri di Roma” / HERE where the sunlight / Floodeth the garden, … -
To Rome
From the Spanish by Benjamin B. Wiffen / Buried in Its Ruins / STRANGER, ’t is vain! midst Rome thou seek’st for Rome …
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