As from the darkening gloom a silver dove Upsoars, and …
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Sonnet: After Dark Vapors Have Oppress’d Our Plains
After dark vapors have oppress’d our plains For a long …
Read Poem »On Going Unnoticed
As vain to raise a voice as a sigh In …
Read Poem »Sonnet. Written Upon The Top Of Ben Nevis
Read me a lesson, Muse, and speak it loud Upon …
Read Poem »On a Tree Fallen Across the Road
(To hear us talk) The tree the tempest with a …
Read Poem »Sonnet. Written On A Blank Space At The End Of Chaucer’s Tale Of ‘The Floure And The Lefe’
This pleasant tale is like a little copse: The honied …
Read Poem »October
O hushed October morning mild, Thy leaves have ripened to …
Read Poem »Sonnet. Written On A Blank Page In Shakespeare’s Poems, Facing ‘A Lover’s Complaint’
Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art — …
Read Poem »Now Close the Windows
Now close the windows and hush all the fields: If …
Read Poem »Sonnet. Written In Disgust Of Vulgar Superstition
The church bells toll a melancholy round, Calling the people …
Read Poem »Nothing Gold Can Stay
Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. …
Read Poem »Sonnet. Written In Answer To A Sonnet By J. H. Reynolds
Blue! ‘Tis the life of heaven,–the domain Of Cynthia,–the wide …
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