Richard Henry Dana

  • Though i am humble, slight me not,
      But love me for the Poet’s sake;
    Forget me not till he ’s forgot,
      For care or slight with him I take.

    For oft he passed the blossoms by
      And turned to me with kindly look;
    Left flaunting flowers and open...

  •   whence come ye, Cherubs? from the moon?
        Or from a shining star?
      Ye sure are sent, a blessed boon,
        From kinder worlds afar;
    For, while I look, my heart is all delight:
    Earth has no creatures half so pure and bright.

      From moon nor...

  • And do our loves all perish with our frames?
    Do those that took their root and put forth buds,
    And their soft leaves unfolded in the warmth
    Of mutual hearts, grow up and live in beauty,
    Then fade and fall, like fair, unconscious flowers?
    Are thoughts and...

  • Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea,
      Why takest thou its melancholy voice,
        And with that boding cry
        Why o’er the waves dost fly?
    O, rather, bird, with me
      Through the fair land rejoice!

    Thy flitting form comes ghostly dim and...