How spake of old the Royal Seer? (His text is one I love to treat on.) This life of ours he said is sheer Mataiotes Mataioteton. O Student of this gilded Book, Declare, while musing on its pages, If truer words were ever spoke By ancient, or by modern sages! The various authors’ names but […]

KING CANUTE was weary hearted; he had reigned for years a score, Battling, struggling, pushing, fighting, killing much and robbing more; And he thought upon his actions, walking by the wild sea-shore. ‘Twixt the Chancellor and Bishop walked the King with steps sedate, Chamberlains and grooms came after, silversticks and goldsticks great, Chaplains, aides-de-camp, and […]

FROM UHLAND. “Da liegen sie alle, die grauen Hohen.” The cold gray hills they bind me around, The darksome valleys lie sleeping below, But the winds as they pass o’er all this ground, Bring me never a sound of woe! Oh! for all I have suffered and striven, Care has embittered my cup and my […]

I seem, in the midst of the crowd, The lightest of all; My laughter rings cheery and loud, In banquet and ball. My lip hath its smiles and its sneers, For all men to see; But my soul, and my truth, and my tears, Are for thee, are for thee! Around me they flatter and […]