Potential Titles: Benjamin West Ball

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Each act and thought decreed - Benjamin West Ball "Agimur Fatis"

The dark billows of the sea of fate - Benjamin West Ball "Agimur Fatis"

Before the zephyrs sail - Benjamin West Ball "Agimur Fatis"

Salutes the pilgrim's eye - Benjamin West Ball "Anastasius"

Sole solace of my dark career - Benjamin West Ball "Anastasius"

Like Asrael's venomed dart - Benjamin West Ball "Anastasius"

Apostate to my father's creed - Benjamin West Ball "Anastasius"

Below its gossamer arches frail - Benjamin West Ball "Anastasius"

I'll quarry the sapphire sunset - Benjamin West Ball "Ariel's Song"

My ivory floors shall glitter - Benjamin West Ball "Ariel's Song"

With slumber's dews oppressed - Benjamin West Ball "Ariel's Song"

Follow Apollo's sinking wain - Benjamin West Ball "Ariel's Song"

Whom the fiery horse drew - Benjamin West Ball "Ariel's Song"

Past the sceptre of Uriel - Benjamin West Ball "Ariel's Song"

And the planet-chorded Lyre - Benjamin West Ball "Ariel's Song"

Thy winged yoke in triumph - Benjamin West Ball "Ariel's Song"

Gone the ivory house of pleasure - Benjamin West Ball "Ariel's Song"

Where the Syrian cedars grew - Benjamin West Ball "Ariel's Song"

Could a monarch's heart subdue - Benjamin West Ball "Ariel's Song"

In the yard the lindens moan - Benjamin West Ball "Ariel's Song"

Through the dusky-woven veil of time - Benjamin West Ball "Athens"

From the golden quivers drawn - Benjamin West Ball "Athens"

Like silver through the olive's green - Benjamin West Ball "Athens"

Arachne plies her gossamer loom - Benjamin West Ball "The Authoress of The Mysteries of Udolpho"

With devious feet, and void of fixed intent - Benjamin West Ball "Autumn"

Amid the calm and liberal air - Benjamin West Ball "Autumn"

Their faded state in such pure haunts - Benjamin West Ball "Autumn"

The silent tenants of the sea - Benjamin West Ball "Autumn"

Has hidden long from weeping eyes - Benjamin West Ball "Autumn"

Like fiery coals of martyrdom - Benjamin West Ball "The Autumnal Ride"

Through veils of ether opaline - Benjamin West Ball "The Autumnal Ride"

Sucked the air with Ariel's greed - Benjamin West Ball "The Autumnal Ride"

Forever marked with white - Benjamin West Ball "The Autumnal Ride"

Sceptred Gorgon of the Isles - Benjamin West Ball "Booth's Richard"

Fiercest of the kingly brood - Benjamin West Ball "Booth's Richard"

Promethean will uncrushed and calm - Benjamin West Ball "Booth's Richard"

His blighted sinews nerved and strung - Benjamin West Ball "Booth's Richard"

Thoughts like hydras lurked and coiled - Benjamin West Ball "Booth's Richard"

His heart of iron did not quail - Benjamin West Ball "Booth's Richard"

From beneath Gehenna stirred - Benjamin West Ball "Booth's Richard"

The din of life from yonder towers - Benjamin West Ball "The Cemetery in Summer"

Where you on kisses fed - Benjamin West Ball "The Cemetery in Summer"

Forget in sleep my weariness - Benjamin West Ball "The Cemetery in Summer"

A thousand leagues into the western sky - Benjamin West Ball "The Cemetery in Summer"

Weaves it with less gaudy dyes - Benjamin West Ball "The Cemetery in Summer"

Ammon's solar fount congeals - Benjamin West Ball "Concetto"

In the smiles of fortune cold - Benjamin West Ball "Concetto"

Upon the forehead of the firmament - Benjamin West Ball "Cymindis"

The silver chain of that wild song - Benjamin West Ball "Cymindis"

Within the beak of a relentless vulture - Benjamin West Ball "Cymindis"

Glides the shadow round the dial - Benjamin West Ball "Disenchantment"

In its shadow dreams are brooding - Benjamin West Ball "Disenchantment"

On each tenth returning sunrise - Benjamin West Ball "Disenchantment"

The meadows of the Sirens starred with blossoms - Benjamin West Ball "Disenchantment"

To lampless glooms descend - Benjamin West Ball "Disenchantment"

Through the umbered spaces wend - Benjamin West Ball "Disenchantment"

The tribes of birds collected - Benjamin West Ball "Disenchantment"

Enter through the gates of sleep - Benjamin West Ball "Dreams"

That float upon the Elfin breeze - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"

Removed beyond the Sabbath chime - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"

La Mancha's cavalier reposes - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"

On the banks of Elfin streams - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"

Beneath a cobweb canopy - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"

Ambrosial flowers of heavenly song - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"

Wove a rich asbestic web - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"

Where desert monsters prowl - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"

Spreads wide a saffron glow - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"

Swim in zones of windless air - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"

That shines with treasures manifold - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"

Forever fixed on Brahma's airy throne - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"

To melt his troubled soul away - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"

Beyond the reach of mortal footstep - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"

Outstrip the falling star - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"

Where ancient kings enchanted lie - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"

The golden manacles of verse - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"

From her griffin steed alights - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"

Ascends the lunar sphere - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"

Released from dungeon grates - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"

Could run upon the breeze - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"

Swans and nightingales rehearse - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"

With ruddy towers of pillared flame - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"

The ebbless flow of time's unwearied tide - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"

Wandered through the forests of the south - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"

That haunt King Oberon's domains - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"

Like the drowned Ophelia fair - Benjamin West Ball "L'Envoi"

Sadly bends the stricken Year - Benjamin West Ball "L'Envoi"

While the squirrel gathers fast - Benjamin West Ball "L'Envoi"

Wild birds chant their dirges - Benjamin West Ball "The Forgotten"

For their fenceless acres shed - Benjamin West Ball "The Forgotten"

With Odin's might did cope - Benjamin West Ball "A Hermitage"

The chief of blue Valhalla's deities - Benjamin West Ball "A Hermitage"

A demon beagle dark as night - Benjamin West Ball "A Hermitage"

Bound with Stygian asphodel - Benjamin West Ball "A Hermitage"

Visionary fabrics dim and vast - Benjamin West Ball "A Hermitage"

From thy stellar fountains flow - Benjamin West Ball "Hymn to Phosphor"

Than thy brother stars can show - Benjamin West Ball "Hymn to Phosphor"

Waiting in her saffron porches - Benjamin West Ball "Hymn to Phosphor"

Whom undying beams adorn - Benjamin West Ball "Hymn to Phosphor"

Sheds the glory of its spell - Benjamin West Ball "The Indian Summer"

Softer breathe the gentle zephyrs - Benjamin West Ball "The Indian Summer"

Quenched beneath the angry sea - Benjamin West Ball "Inscription"

Of power to tame a tiger's heart - Benjamin West Ball "Inscription"

Flagons full of cool Lethean spray - Benjamin West Ball "Invocation"

Sleep, thy mild dejected twin - Benjamin West Ball "Invocation"

In her lonely retrospective flight - Benjamin West Ball "Ionia"

The plastic hand of art - Benjamin West Ball "Ionia"

Unequalled prospects to enchant the eye - Benjamin West Ball "Ionia"

In a garment of enduring verse - Benjamin West Ball "Ionia"

From passion's lures exiled - Benjamin West Ball "Love's Labor Lost"

Ancient stars in clusters bright - Benjamin West Ball "Love's Labor Lost"

O'er the scrolls of starry Plato bow - Benjamin West Ball "Love's Labor Lost"

The high-browed kings of thought - Benjamin West Ball "Love's Labor Lost"

The demon's crown of woe - Benjamin West Ball "Lucifer Redux"

And Eden's flag unrolled - Benjamin West Ball "Lucifer Redux"

Months with ruin fraught - Benjamin West Ball "MDCCCXLVIII-IX"

Pain through all her zones - Benjamin West Ball "MDCCCXLVIII-IX"

Charms of taintless air - Benjamin West Ball "MDCCCXLVIII-IX"

The ghastly hunters unevaded strike - Benjamin West Ball "MDCCCXLVIII-IX"

Light the mazes of the wind - Benjamin West Ball "MDCCCXLVIII-IX"

The red shafts quench their rage - Benjamin West Ball "MDCCCXLVIII-IX"

That carved these love knots - Benjamin West Ball "Monody of the Countess of Nettlestede"

The many mansions of the angel land - Benjamin West Ball "Monody of the Countess of Nettlestede"

And its pale tenement of clay - Benjamin West Ball "Monody of the Countess of Nettlestede"

And hunt him to the gulfs of woe - Benjamin West Ball "Monody of the Countess of Nettlestede"

To the gulfs of woe profound - Benjamin West Ball "Monody of the Countess of Nettlestede"

Withered leaves and sighing winds - Benjamin West Ball "Monody of the Countess of Nettlestede"

A haughty heart and guilty brain - Benjamin West Ball "Monody of the Countess of Nettlestede"

Full many a martyred spirit dwells - Benjamin West Ball "Monody of the Countess of Nettlestede"

Attain those far celestial citadels - Benjamin West Ball "Monody of the Countess of Nettlestede"

Dim his red nocturnal torch - Benjamin West Ball "Morning"

My spirit keep from deeds of darkness - Benjamin West Ball "Morning"

Summons from the soul's abyss - Benjamin West Ball "Morning"

Fronting the portals of the Sun - Benjamin West Ball "Morning"

Grown tired of shepherd's fare - Benjamin West Ball "Pan and Lais"

Wreaths of incense light - Benjamin West Ball "Pan and Lais"

Dazzled by the eternal gleam - Benjamin West Ball "Pan and Lais"

The guerdon of a burning kiss - Benjamin West Ball "Pan and Lais"

Vapors round the sinking sun - Benjamin West Ball "Pan and Lais"

A retrospect of sin behind me - Benjamin West Ball "The Penitent"

All spent at Belial's shrine - Benjamin West Ball "The Penitent"

All Archimedean subtleties are vain - Benjamin West Ball "The Penitent"

Anchors under islands haunted - Benjamin West Ball "The Penitent"

And the wizard chant between - Benjamin West Ball "The Penitent"

Toward the throne of Saturn sailed - Benjamin West Ball "The Penitent"

Where the summer never failed - Benjamin West Ball "The Penitent"

Heroes born in better days - Benjamin West Ball "The Penitent"

Fanned by winds eternal - Benjamin West Ball "The Penitent"

Sees the sunken city glimmer - Benjamin West Ball "The Penitent"

Waver with the motions of the tide - Benjamin West Ball "The Penitent"

Poseidon's burnished axle drifts - Benjamin West Ball "The Penitent"

A gleaner in the fields of song - Benjamin West Ball "Proem"

Lift my spirit to the spheres - Benjamin West Ball "Proem"

The nightshade's dew in venomed drops - Benjamin West Ball "Proem"

Throng the blue abysses of eternity - Benjamin West Ball "The Seraphs' Holiday"

The starry satrapies of the Universe - Benjamin West Ball "The Seraphs' Holiday"

With joyful hearts receive permission - Benjamin West Ball "The Seraphs' Holiday"

The rosy veils of pure celestial air - Benjamin West Ball "The Seraphs' Holiday"

From Paradise through spaces infinite - Benjamin West Ball "The Seraphs' Holiday"

The solar Seraphs hold their sway - Benjamin West Ball "The Seraphs' Holiday"

A long array of chariots superb - Benjamin West Ball "The Seraphs' Holiday"

Harnessed to sun-engendered steeds - Benjamin West Ball "The Seraphs' Holiday"

Whose veins are filled with fluid fire - Benjamin West Ball "The Seraphs' Holiday"

Fettered with links of gold - Benjamin West Ball "The Seraphs' Holiday"

Steer through dreamy hollows - Benjamin West Ball "The Teutonic Minstrel's Tomb"

The dark Plutonian tide - Benjamin West Ball "Threnody"

In the cypress-shaded valleys - Benjamin West Ball "Threnody"

In draughts from Lethe's chalice - Benjamin West Ball "Threnody"

Like falcons from their jesses - Benjamin West Ball "Threnody"

In this cup of nectar holy - Benjamin West Ball "Threnody"

Rich in rhetoric's winning wiles - Benjamin West Ball "To --"

Their most persuasive dead - Benjamin West Ball "To --"

Nor serpent's eye, nor siren's lute - Benjamin West Ball "To --"

A morning dream revealed - Benjamin West Ball "To D.S.H."

The cestus with enchantment fraught - Benjamin West Ball "To D.S.H."

The magnet of my heart - Benjamin West Ball "To D.S.H."

Whose freshness Time leaves blooming - Benjamin West Ball "To D.S.H."

Which folded Faust in joy elysian - Benjamin West Ball "To D.S.H."

Flourishes in song immortal - Benjamin West Ball "To the Cricket"

The Cicada famed of old - Benjamin West Ball "To the Cricket"

With clasps of ivory strengthened - Benjamin West Ball "To the Cricket"

In the midnight weird and holy - Benjamin West Ball "To the Cricket"

Arrow drawn from Phoebus' quiver - Benjamin West Ball "To W.P.R."

Girdled by the swelling stream - Benjamin West Ball "Twilight in Egypt"

Gilded by the lunar disc - Benjamin West Ball "Twilight in Egypt"


Poet's works at Project Gutenberg.


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