Our share of night to bear --Our share of morning --Our blank in bliss to fillOur blank in scorning --Here a star, and there a star,Some lose their wa...
Good night, because we must,How intricate the dust!I would go, to know!Oh incognito!Saucy, Saucy SeraphTo elude me so!Father! they won't tell me,W...
What Inn is thisWhere for the nightPeculiar Traveller comes?Who is the Landlord?Where the maids?Behold, what curious rooms!No ruddy fires on the heart...
I had some things that I called mine --And God, that he called his,Till, recently a rival ClaimDisturbed these amities.The property, my garden,Which h...
In rags mysterious as theseThe shining Courtiers go --Veiling the purple, and the plumes --Veiling the ermine so.Smiling, as they request an alms --At...
My friend attacks my friend!Oh Battle picturesque!Then I turn Soldier too,And he turns Satirist!How martial is this place!Had I a mighty gunI think I&...
Talk with prudence to a BeggarOf "Potose," and the mines!Reverently, to the HungryOf your viands, and your wines!Cautious, hint to any Capti...
If this is "fading"Oh let me immediately "fade"!If this is "dying"Bury me, in such a shroud of red!If this is "slee...
As Watchers hang upon the East,As Beggars revel at a feastBy savory Fancy spread --As brooks in deserts babble sweetOn ear too far for the delight,Hea...
A something in a summer's DayAs slow her flambeaux burn awayWhich solemnizes me.A something in a summer's noon --A depth -- an Azure -- a perf...