Sonnet. On seeing the ivory statue of Christ

        The enthusiast brooding in his cell apart

           O'er the sad image of the Crucified,---

           The drooping head, closed lips and piercéd side,---

        A holy vision fills his raptured heart;

           With...

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Sonnet. Tarpeia

        "Give me the bracelets that your warriors wear,"

            The Roman traitress to the Sabine cried,

            "Give me the toys, and I will be your guide,

        And to your host the city's gates unbar."

        Then...

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Sonnet. The bee

        The honey-bee that wanders all day long,

            The field, the woodland, and the garden o'er,

            To gather in his fragrant winter store,

        Humming in calm content his quiet song,

        Seeks not...

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Sonnet. The lake and star

        The mountain lake, o'ershadowed by the hills,

            May still gaze heavenward on the evening star,

        Whose distant light its dark recesses fills,

            Though boundless distance must divide them far;
...

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Sonnet. The sun and stream

        As some dark stream within a cavern's breast,

            Flows murmuring, moaning for the distant sun,

        So ere I met thee, murmuring its unrest,

            Did my life's current coldly, darkly run.

        And as...

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