Elizabeth Stoddard

Poems (7)

• A Summer Night

  I feel the breath of the summer night, / Aromatic fire: …

• In the Still, Star-Lit Night

  in the still, star-lit night, / By the full fountain and the willow-tree, …

• Last Days

  As one who follows a departing friend, / Destined to cross the great, dividing sea, …

• Mercedes

  Under a sultry, yellow sky, / On the yellow sand I lie; …

• On the Campagna

  Stop on the Appian Way, / In the Roman Campagna; …

• The Poet's Secret

  The poet’s secret I must know, / If that will calm my restless mind. …

• Unreturning

  Now all the flowers that ornament the grass, / Wherever meadows are and placid brooks, …