The Wife of Potiphar; With Other Poems (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ...oh, what radiant joy, what thoughts endow These faces, rapt, with hopes: like those that gave To martyrs--calm when Nero's lions pressed--A look that awed the worldlings drunk with power. Yea, in the altar glow, the long, long Past Conquers the Present in this fretted vast, And Rome renews her full triumphant hour Through sanctuary in each faithful breast IN A NORTH GERMAN WOODLAND ("Im Walde") THE depths invite, beyond the sunstrewn park, Beyond red roofs, agleam at eventide; Past spectral birches, where cool waters glide, Guarding the edge, as beeches gray and stark In narrowing lanes the forest highways mark; Green depths that stretch fir-bounded far and wide, A leaf-flecked weft, full tapestried In mystic gold, ere falls the silvern dark. O, woods what olden echo still resounds, What minstrel note of dim enchanted deed Sung at the cradle of a mighty race What magic in this fairy land abounds, Throwing, o'er hidden tarn and flowery mead, A haunting folk-spell time can ne'er efface TANNHAUSER'S CASTLE (Nocturne--The Valley of the Wartburg, Eisenach) THOU shinest there, serene in darkening sky, O evening star though long the aeon's toll Ere man, uplifted, felt the thrill of soul, And, quickened by thy grateful beaconry Above the mount, saw, in this sign on high, Emblem of Hope to those once lost in dole, Knight, saint and churl, groping in noisome hole Where love and faith lay, seeming doomed to die--And, as these valleys ring with summer mirth, Thy radiant glory there proclaims anew The truth that man lives not by bread alone And, though Trade's noisy wains go hurtling through These forest aisles, here Art, on leafy throne, Sees Spirit triumph o'er the things of earth IN FRANCE SOUVENIR OF THE MIDI (Near Carcasonne) A SUMMER glow burns on...