Here Freedom stood by slaughtered friend and foe,
And, ere the wrath paled or that sunset died,
Looked through the ages; then, with eyes aglow,
Laid them to wait that future, side by side.

Ode To Apollo

© James Lister Cuthbertson

"Tandem venias precamur
Nube candentes humeros amictus
Augur Apollo."

Disenchanted

© Augusta Davies Webster

Alas, I thought this forest must be true,

And would not change because of my changed eyes;

An Old Memory

© Paul Laurence Dunbar

How sweet the music sounded
That summer long ago,
When you were by my side, love,
To list its gentle flow.

Sea Dreams

© Alfred Tennyson

`Not fearful; fair,'
Said the good wife, `if every star in heaven
Can make it fair: you do but bear the tide.
Had you ill dreams?'

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From time to time, lifting his eyes, he sees
The soft blue starlight through the one small window,
The moon above black trees, and clouds, and Venus,
And turns to write . . . The clock, behind ticks softly.

Our Hero

© Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Onward to her destination,
O'er the stream the Hannah sped,
When a cry of consternation
Smote and chilled our hearts with dread.

Of My Lady Isabella Playing The Lute

Such moving sounds from such a careless touch,

So unconcerned herself, and we so much!

Written in Milton's PARADISE LOST.

© Mather Byles

Had I, O had I all the tuneful Arts

Of lofty Verse; did ev'ry Muse inspire

Song of Poplars

Shepherd, to yon tall poplars tune your flute:
Let them pierce, keenly, subtly shrill,
The slow blue rumour of the hill;
Let the grass cry with an anguish of evening gold,
And the great sky be mute.

Union Of The Blue And Gray

THE Blue is marching south once more,
With serried steel and stately tread;
Their martial music pealed before,
Their flag of stars flashed overhead.

Krishna

At last I find a meaning of soul's birth
Into this universe terrible and sweet,
I who have felt the hungry heart of earth
Aspiring beyond heaven to Krishna's feet.