John Sterling

Poems (5)

• Alfred the Harper

  Dark fell the night, the watch was set, / The host was idly spread, …

• Louis XV.

  The King with all his kingly train / Had left his Pompadour behind, …

• On a Beautiful Day

  O Unseen Spirit! now a calm divine / Comes forth from thee, rejoicing earth and air! …

• The Rose and the Gauntlet

  Low spake the knight to the peasant-girl: / “I tell thee sooth, I am belted earl; …

• The Two Oceans

  Two seas, amid the night, / In the moonshine roll and sparkle— …