Sarah Helen Whitman Quotes

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Raven from the dim dominions
On the Night's Plutonian shore,
Oft I hear thy dusky pinions
Wave and flutter round my door—
See the shadow of thy pinions
Float along the moonlit floor.

Sarah Helen Whitman
The summer skies are darkly blue,
The days are still and bright,
And Evening trails her robes of gold
Through the dim halls of Night.

Sarah Helen Whitman
The sweet imperious mouth, whose haughty valor
Defied all portents of impending doom.

Sarah Helen Whitman
Star of resplendent front! Thy glorious eye
Shines on me still from out yon clouded sky.

Sarah Helen Whitman
Tell him I lingered alone on the shore,
Where we parted, in sorrow, to meet nevermore;
The night-wind blew cold on my desolate heart
But colder those wild words of doom,— Ye must part.

Sarah Helen Whitman
Enchantress of the stormy seas,
Priestess of Night's high mysteries.

Sarah Helen Whitman
Warm lights are on the sleepy uplands waning
Beneath dark clouds along the horizon rolled,
Till the slant sunbeams through the fringes raining
Bathe all the hills in melancholy gold.

Sarah Helen Whitman
Beside the brook and on the umbered meadow, Where yellow fern-tufts fleck the faded ground, With folded lids beneath their palmy shadow The gentian nods in dewy slumbers bound.

Sarah Helen Whitman
When summer gathers up her robes of glory, and like a dream of beauty glides away.

Sarah Helen Whitman
The shy little Mayflower weaves her nest, But the south wind sighs o'er the fragrant loam, And betrays the path to her woodland home.

Sarah Helen Whitman
And still the aster greets us as we pass With her faint smile, - among the withered grass Beside the way, lingering as loath of heart, Like me, from these sweet solitudes to part.

Sarah Helen Whitman