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2023-12-06THEY HEAR THE SIRENS FOR THE SECOND TIME. THE weary sails a moment slept, The oars were silent for a space, As past Hesperian shores we swept, That we...
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2023-12-06FAIR white bird, what song art thou singing In wintry weather of lands o'er sea? Dear white bird, what way art thou winging, Where no grass grows,...
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2023-12-06THE SEEKERS. NAY, now no God comes hither, In shape that men may see; They fare we know not whither, We know not what they be. Yea, though the sunset ...
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2023-12-06THE PHAEACIANS. WHY from the dreamy meadows, More fair than any dream, Why will you seek the shadows Beyond the ocean stream? Through straits of storm...
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2023-12-06A SONG OF PHAEACIA. THE languid sunset, mother of roses, Lingers, a light on the magic seas, The wide fire flames, as a flower uncloses, Heavy with od...
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2023-12-06HESPEROTHEN. BY the example of certain Grecian mariners, who, being safely returned from the war about Troy, leave yet again their old lands and gods,...
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2023-12-06A SUNSET ON YARROW. THE wind and the day had lived together, They died together, and far away Spoke farewell in the sultry weather, Out of the sunset,...
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2023-12-06A STAR IN THE NIGHT. THE perfect piteous beauty of thy face, Is like a star the dawning drives away; Mine eyes may never see in the bright day Thy pal...
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2023-12-06LOST IN HADES. I DREAMED that somewhere in the shadowy place, Grief of farewell unspoken was forgot In welcome, and regret remembered not; And hopeles...
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2023-12-06METEMPSYCHOSIS. I SHALL not see thee, nay, but I shall know Perchance, thy grey eyes in another's eyes, Shall guess thy curls in gracious locks th...