Tuscan, that wanderest through the realms of gloom,
With thoughtful pace, and sad, majestic eyes,
Stern thoughts and awful from thy soul arise,
Like Farinata from his fiery tomb.
Thy sacred song is like the trump of doom;
Yet in thy heart what human sympathies,
What soft compassion glows, as in the skies
The tender stars their clouded lamps relume!
Methinks I see thee stand, with pallid cheeks
By Fra Hilario in his diocese,
As up the convent-walls, in golden streaks,
The ascending sunbeams mark the day's decrease;
And, as he asks what there the stranger seeks,
Thy voice along the cloister whispers, "Peace!"
The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems 1845
- Carillon
- The Belfry of Bruges
- A Gleam of Sunshine
- The Arsenal at Springfield
- Nuremberg
- The Norman Baron
- Rain in Summer
- To A Child
- The Occultation of Orion
- The Bridge
- To The Driving Cloud
- The Day is Done
- Afternoon in February
- To An Old Danish Songbook
- Walter von der Vogelweid
- Drinking Song
- The Old Clock on the Stairs
- The Arrow and the Song