«O mistress earth! Before thee have I knelt, / And through the fragrances that thee begird, / The glowing of a kindred heart I felt, / The throbbing of a living world I heard. / In noon-tide beams with such enraptured blaze / The bounty of the radiant skies was sent, / With whose still lu...»
«Amid the morning hazes, wavering of pace, / I journeyed to a secret, wonder-laden shore; / The daybreak strove to quench the straggling starry trace; / Dreams still were on the wing, and held in their embrace, / My spirit sought unfathomed godheads to adore. Upon a lonely journey in a chill...»
«The court of my empress is lofty of height, / With seven golden pillars around. / The crown of my empress is sevenfold bedight, / With jewels unnumbered 'tis bound. And in the green garden, my empress' own, / The roses and lilies bloom fair; / In the waves of a silvery streamlet is thrown...»
«Sunset dreams on fir-tre cones, / Green — the hedge, and brown — the field; / Mossy rifts in weathered stones / Meekly vernal waters yield. Oh, look up the wooded steep — / God has touched it with his palm; / Piously wild berries weep, / Listening to the grassy psa...»