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Book: Songs before Sunrise

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  • Cor Cordium
    O heart of hearts, the chalice of love's fire,
    Hid round with flowers and all the bounty of bloom;
    14 lines
  • A Watch In The Night
    Watchman, what of the night? -
    Storm and thunder and rain,
    152 lines
  • Monotones
    Because there is but one truth;
    Because there is but one banner;
    42 lines
  • Dedication To Joseph Mazzini
    Take, since you bade it should bear,
    These, of the seed of your sowing,
    43 lines
  • The Song Of The Standard
    Maiden most beautiful, mother most bountiful, lady of lands,
    Queen and republican, crowned of the centuries whose years are thy sands,
    49 lines
  • Prelude
    Between the green bud and the red
    Youth sat and sang by Time, and shed
    190 lines
  • A Marching Song
    We mix from many lands,
    We march for very far;
    226 lines
  • The Eve Of Revolution
    The trumpets of the four winds of the world
    From the ends of the earth blow battle; the night heaves,
    433 lines
  • 'Non Dolet'
    It does not hurt.  She looked along the knife
      Smiling, and watched the thick drops mix and run
    14 lines
  • Super Flumina Babylonis
    By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept,
    Remembering thee,
    128 lines
  • Mater Dolorosa
    Who is this that sits by the way, by the wild wayside,
    In a rent stained raiment, the robe of a cast-off bride,
    62 lines
  • The Halt Before Rome--September 1867
    Is it so, that the sword is broken,
    Our sword, that was halfway drawn?
    322 lines
  • In San Lorenzo
    Is thine hour come to wake, O slumbering Night?
    Hath not the Dawn a message in thine ear?
    14 lines
  • Mentana : First Anniversary
    At the time when the stars are grey,
    And the gold of the molten moon
    90 lines
  • Messidor
    Put in the sickles and reap;
    For the morning of harvest is red,
    82 lines
  • Blessed Among Women --To The Signora Cairoli
    1        BLESSED was she that bare,
            Hidden in flesh most fair,
    227 lines
  • An Appeal
    Art thou indeed among these,
    Thou of the tyrannous crew,
    85 lines
  • The Litany Of Nations
    If with voice of words or prayers thy sons may reach thee, We thy latter sons, the men thine after-birth
    187 lines
  • A Year's Burden -- 1870
    Fire and wild light of hope and doubt and fear,
    Wind of swift change, and clouds and hours that veer
    85 lines
  • Before A Crucifix
    Here, down between the dusty trees,
    At this lank edge of haggard wood,
    198 lines
  • Mater Triumphalis
    Mother of man's time-travelling generations,
    Breath of his nostrils, heartblood of his heart,
    156 lines
  • Tenebrae
    At the chill high tide of the night,
    At the turn of the fluctuant hours,
    136 lines, 1 comment
  • Siena
    Inside this northern summer's fold
    The fields are full of naked gold,
    324 lines
  • Hymn Of Man
    In the grey beginning of years, in the twilight of things that began,
    The word of the earth in the ears of the world, was it God? was it man?
    200 lines
  • Tiresias
    It is an hour before the hour of dawn.
    Set in mine hand my staff and leave me here
    386 lines
  • Armand Barbés
    Fire out of heaven, a flower of perfect fire,
      That where the roots of life are had its root
    28 lines
  • On The Downs
    A faint sea without wind or sun;
    A sky like flameless vapour dun;
    156 lines
  • Quia Multum Amavit
    Am I not he that hath made thee and begotten thee,
    I, God, the spirit of man?
    152 lines
  • Ode On The Insurrection In Candia
    STR. 1
    I laid my laurel-leaf
    258 lines
  • Genesis
    In the outer world that was before this earth,
    That was before all shape or space was born,
    64 lines
  • Eurydice - To Victor Hugo
    Orpheus, the night is full of tears and cries,
    And hardly for the storm and ruin shed
    14 lines, 1 comment
  • To Walt Whitman In America
    Send but a song oversea for us,
    Heart of their hearts who are free,
    154 lines
  • Perinde AC Cadaver
    In a vision Liberty stood
    By the childless charm-stricken bed
    105 lines
  • Christmas Antiphones
    Thou whose birth on earth
    Angels sang to men,
    303 lines
  • The Oblation
    Ask nothing more of me, sweet;
    All I can give you I give.
    18 lines, 1 comment
  • A New Year's Message To Joseph Mazzini
    Send the stars light, but send not love to me.
    Shelley.
    58 lines
  • Epilogue: Songs Before Sunrise
    Between the wave-ridge and the strand
    I let you forth in sight of land,
    369 lines
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