• Like some great pearl from out the Orient,
    Upheld by unseen hands,—in its rich weight
    An offering to adorn a queen’s proud state
    That offering to adorn a queen’s proud state
    That some dependent princeling did present,—
    The moon slow rises into night’s dark tent.
    The pulseless air, with longings vague befreight,
    Now quickens ’neath her...