Poetry

Serenade

odaha — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 20:19:02 +0000

1850

So sweet the hour, so calm the time,

I feel it more than half a crime,

When Nature sleeps and stars are mute,

To mar the silence ev'n with lute.

At rest on ocean's brilliant dyes

An image of Elysium lies:

Seven Pleiades entranced in Heaven,

Form in the deep another seven:

Endymion

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The Valley Of Unrest

odaha — Tue, 13 May 2008 12:45:36 +0000

1831

Once it smiled a silent dell

Where the people did not dwell;

They had gone unto the wars,

Trusting to the mild-eyed stars,

Nightly, from their azure towers,

To keep watch above the flowers,

In the midst of which all day

The red sunlight lazily lay.

Now each visitor shall ...

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A Valentine

odaha — Tue, 13 May 2008 12:44:25 +0000

1846

For her this rhyme is penned, whose luminous eyes,

Brightly expressive as the twins of Leda,

Shall find her own sweet name, that nestling lies

Upon the page, enwrapped from every reader.

Search narrowly the lines!- they hold a treasure

Divine- a talisman- an amulet

That must be worn at heart.

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Ulalume

odaha — Tue, 13 May 2008 12:43:21 +0000

1847

The skies they were ashen and sober;

The leaves they were crisped and sere-

The leaves they were withering and sere;

It was night in the lonesome October

Of my most immemorial year;

It was hard by the dim lake of Auber,

In the misty mid region of Weir-

It was down by the dank tarn of ...

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To The River --

odaha — Tue, 13 May 2008 12:42:19 +0000

1829

Fair river!

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To One In Paradise

odaha — Tue, 13 May 2008 12:41:24 +0000

1834

Thou wast all that to me, love,

For which my soul did pine-

A green isle in the sea, love,

A fountain and a shrine,

All wreathed with fairy fruits and flowers,

And all the flowers were mine.

Ah, dream too bright to last!

Ah, starry Hope!

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To My Mother

odaha — Tue, 13 May 2008 12:40:24 +0000

1849

Because I feel that, in the Heavens above,

The angels, whispering to one another,

Can find, among their burning terms of love,

None so devotional as that of "Mother,"

Therefore by that dear name I long have called you-

You who are more than mother unto me,

And fill my heart of hearts, where Death ...

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To M.L.S.

odaha — Tue, 13 May 2008 12:39:31 +0000

1847

Of all who hail thy presence as the morning-

Of all to whom thine absence is the night-

The blotting utterly from out high heaven

The sacred sun- of all who, weeping, bless thee

Hourly for hope- for life- ah!

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To M--

odaha — Tue, 13 May 2008 12:38:29 +0000

1830

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To Helen

odaha — Tue, 13 May 2008 12:37:26 +0000

1848

I saw thee once- once only- years ago:

I must not say how many- but not many.

It was a July midnight; and from out

A full-orbed moon, that, like thine own soul, soaring,

Sought a precipitate pathway up through heaven,

There fell a silvery-silken veil of light,

With quietude, and sultriness, and ...

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To Helen

odaha — Tue, 13 May 2008 12:35:40 +0000

1831

Helen, thy beauty is to me

Like those Nicean barks of yore,

That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,

The weary, wayworn wanderer bore

To his own native shore.

On desperate seas long wont to roam,

Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face,

Thy Naiad airs have brought me ...

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To F--S S. O--D

odaha — Tue, 13 May 2008 12:34:06 +0000

1835

Thou wouldst be loved?- then let thy heart

From its present pathway part not!

Being everything which now thou art,

Be nothing which thou art not.

So with the world thy gentle ways,

Thy grace, thy more than beauty,

Shall be an endless theme of praise,

And love- a simple duty.

To F--

odaha — Tue, 13 May 2008 12:32:46 +0000

1835

Beloved! amid the earnest woes

That crowd around my earthly path-

(Drear path, alas!

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To -- --

odaha — Tue, 13 May 2008 12:31:43 +0000

1829

Not long ago, the writer of these lines,

In the mad pride of intellectuality,

Maintained "the power of words"- denied that ever

A thought arose within the human brain

Beyond the utterance of the human tongue:

And now, as if in mockery of that boast,

Two words- two foreign soft ...

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To --

odaha — Tue, 13 May 2008 12:30:18 +0000

1830

The bowers whereat, in dreams, I see

The wantonest singing birds,

Are lips- and all thy melody

Of lip-begotten words-

Thine eyes, in Heaven of heart enshrined,

Then desolately fall,

O God!

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Tamerlane

odaha — Tue, 13 May 2008 12:28:31 +0000

1827

Kind solace in a dying hour!

Such, father, is not (now) my theme-

I will not madly deem that power

Of Earth may shrive me of the sin

Unearthly pride hath revell'd in-

I have no time to dote or dream:

You call it hope- that fire of fire!

It is but agony of desire:

If I can hope- ...

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Stanzas

odaha — Tue, 13 May 2008 12:26:49 +0000

1827

How often we forget all time, when lone

Admiring Nature's universal throne;

Her woods- her wilds- her mountains- the intense

Reply of HERS to OUR intelligence!

[BYRON, The Island.]

I

In ...

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Spirits Of The Dead

odaha — Tue, 13 May 2008 12:24:56 +0000

1827

Thy soul shall find itself alone

'Mid dark thoughts of the grey tomb-stone;

Not one, of all the crowd, to pry

Into thine hour of secrecy.

Be silent in that solitude,

Which is not loneliness- for then

The spirits of the dead, who stood

In life before thee, are ...

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Sonnet- To Zante

odaha — Tue, 13 May 2008 12:23:44 +0000

1837

Fair isle, that from the fairest of all flowers,

Thy gentlest of all gentle names dost take!

How many memories of what radiant hours

At sight of thee and thine at once awake!

How many scenes of what departed bliss!

How many thoughts of what entombed hopes!

How many visions of a maiden that ...

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Sonnet- To Science

odaha — Tue, 13 May 2008 10:31:42 +0000

1829

Science! true daughter of Old Time thou art!

Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes.

Why preyest thou thus upon the poet's heart,

Vulture, whose wings are dull realities?

How should he love thee?

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Song

odaha — Tue, 13 May 2008 10:22:05 +0000

1827

I saw thee on thy bridal day-

When a burning blush came o'er thee,

Though happiness around thee lay,

The world all love before thee:

And in thine eye a kindling light

(Whatever it might be)

Was all on Earth my aching sight

Of Loveliness could see.

That ...

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The Sleeper

odaha — Tue, 13 May 2008 09:16:33 +0000

1831

At midnight, in the month of June,

I stand beneath the mystic moon.

An opiate vapor, dewy, dim,

Exhales from out her golden rim,

And, softly dripping, drop by drop,

Upon the quiet mountain top,

Steals drowsily and musically

Into the universal valley.

The rosemary nods upon the ...

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Romance

odaha — Tue, 13 May 2008 09:14:55 +0000

1829

Romance, who loves to nod and sing,

With drowsy head and folded wing,

Among the green leaves as they shake

Far down within some shadowy lake,

To me a painted paroquet

Hath been- a most familiar bird-

Taught me my alphabet to say-

To lisp my very earliest word

While in the wild ...

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Lenore

odaha — Tue, 13 May 2008 09:14:08 +0000

1831

Ah, broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever!

Let the bell toll!- a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river;

And, Guy de Vere, hast thou no tear?- weep now or nevermore!

See! on yon drear and rigid bier low lies thy love, Lenore!

Come!

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The Lake. To

odaha — Tue, 13 May 2008 09:13:21 +0000

1827

In spring of youth it was my lot

To haunt of the wide world a spot

The which I could not love the less-

So lovely was the loneliness

Of a wild lake, with black rock bound,

And the tall pines that towered around.

But when the Night had thrown her pall

Upon that spot, as ...

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Israfel

odaha — Tue, 13 May 2008 09:11:32 +0000

1831

In Heaven a spirit doth dwell

"Whose heart-strings are a lute";

None sing so wildly well

As the angel Israfel,

And the giddy stars (so legends tell),

Ceasing their hymns, attend the spell

Of his voice, all mute.

Tottering above

In her highest ...

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Hymn

odaha — Tue, 13 May 2008 09:10:28 +0000

1835

At morn- at noon- at twilight dim-

Maria!

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The Haunted Palace

odaha — Tue, 13 May 2008 09:09:46 +0000

1839

In the greenest of our valleys

By good angels tenanted,

Once a fair and stately palace-

Radiant palace- reared its head.

In the monarch Thought's dominion-

It stood there!

Never seraph spread a pinion

Over fabric half so fair!

Banners yellow, glorious, ...

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The Happiest Day, The Happiest Hour

odaha — Tue, 13 May 2008 09:09:04 +0000

1827

The happiest day- the happiest hour

My sear'd and blighted heart hath known,

The highest hope of pride and power,

I feel hath flown.

Of power! said I? yes!

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For Annie

odaha — Tue, 13 May 2008 09:08:22 +0000

1849

Thank Heaven!

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Fairy-Land

odaha — Tue, 13 May 2008 09:07:35 +0000

1829

Dim vales- and shadowy floods-

And cloudy-looking woods,

Whose forms we can't discover

For the tears that drip all over!

Huge moons there wax and wane-

Again- again- again-

Every moment of the night-

Forever changing places-

And they put out the star-light

With the ...

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Evening Star

odaha — Tue, 13 May 2008 09:06:54 +0000

1827

'Twas noontide of summer,

And mid-time of night;

And stars, in their orbits,

Shone pale, thro' the light

Of the brighter, cold moon,

'Mid planets her slaves,

Herself in the Heavens,

Her beam on the waves.

I gazed awhile

On her cold smile;

Too cold- too ...

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Eulalie

odaha — Tue, 13 May 2008 09:06:04 +0000

1845

I dwelt alone

In a world of moan,

And my soul was a stagnant tide,

Till the fair and gentle Eulalie became my blushing bride-

Till the yellow-haired young Eulalie became my smiling bride.

Ah, less- less bright

The stars of the night

Than the eyes of the radiant ...

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Elizabeth

odaha — Tue, 13 May 2008 09:05:17 +0000

1850

Elizabeth, it surely is most fit

[Logic and common usage so commanding]

In thy own book that first thy name be writ,

Zeno and other sages notwithstanding;

And I have other reasons for so doing

Besides my innate love of contradiction;

Each poet - if a poet - in pursuing

The muses thro' ...

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Eldorado

odaha — Tue, 13 May 2008 09:04:36 +0000

1849

Gaily bedight,

A gallant knight,

In sunshine and in shadow,

Had journeyed long,

Singing a song,

In search of Eldorado.

But he grew old-

This knight so bold-

And o'er his heart a shadow

Fell as he found

No spot of ...

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Dreams

odaha — Tue, 13 May 2008 09:03:50 +0000

1827

Oh! that my young life were a lasting dream!

My spirit not awakening, till the beam

Of an Eternity should bring the morrow.

Yes!

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Dreamland

odaha — Tue, 13 May 2008 09:02:56 +0000

1844

By a route obscure and lonely,

Haunted by ill angels only,

Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT,

On a black throne reigns upright,

I have reached these lands but newly

From an ultimate dim Thule-

From a wild clime that lieth, sublime,

Out of SPACE- out of ...

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A Dream Within A Dream

odaha — Tue, 13 May 2008 09:01:59 +0000

1827

Take this kiss upon the brow!

And, in parting from you now,

Thus much let me avow-

You are not wrong, who deem

That my days have been a dream;

Yet if hope has flown away

In a night, or in a day,

In a vision, or in none,

Is it therefore the less gone?

All that we see ...

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A Dream

odaha — Tue, 13 May 2008 09:01:00 +0000

1827

In visions of the dark night

I have dreamed of joy departed-

But a waking dream of life and light

Hath left me broken-hearted.

Ah!

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The Conqueror Worm

odaha — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:56:55 +0000

1843

Lo!

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The Coliseum

odaha — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:55:45 +0000

1833

Type of the antique Rome!

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The City In The Sea

odaha — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:54:54 +0000

1831

Lo!

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Bridal Ballad

odaha — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:53:48 +0000

1837

The ring is on my hand,

And the wreath is on my brow;

Satin and jewels grand

Are all at my command,

And I am happy now.

And my lord he loves me well;

But, when first he breathed his vow,

I felt my bosom swell-

For the words rang as a knell,

And ...

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The Bells

odaha — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:52:24 +0000

1849

I

Hear the sledges with the bells-

Silver bells!

What a world of merriment their melody foretells!

How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,

In the icy air of night!

While the stars that oversprinkle

All the heavens, seem to twinkle

With a crystalline delight;

Keeping time, ...

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Annabel Lee

odaha — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:50:53 +0000

1849

It was many and many a year ago,

In a kingdom by the sea,

That a maiden there lived whom you may know

By the name of ANNABEL LEE;--

And this maiden she lived with no other thought

Than to love and be loved by me.

She was a child and I was a child,

In this kingdom by the ...

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An Enigma

odaha — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:49:10 +0000

1848

"Seldom we find," says Solomon Don Dunce,

"Half an idea in the profoundest sonnet.

Through all the flimsy things we see at once

As easily as through a Naples bonnet-

Trash of all trash!- how can a lady don it?

Yet heavier far than your Petrarchan stuff-

Owl-downy nonsense that the faintest ...

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Alone

odaha — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:47:30 +0000

1830

From childhood's hour I have not been

As others were; I have not seen

As others saw; I could not bring

My passions from a common spring.

From the same source I have not taken

My sorrow; I could not awaken

My heart to joy at the same tone;

And all I loved, I loved alone.

Then- ...

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Al Aaraaf

odaha — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:46:07 +0000

1829

PART I

O! nothing earthly save the ray

(Thrown back from flowers) of Beauty's eye,

As in those gardens where the day

Springs from the gems of Circassy-

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The Raven

odaha — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:44:43 +0000

1845

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,

Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore -

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,

As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door -

„ 'Tis some visitor,“ I muttered, „tapping at my chamber door -

Only ...

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