Poems by Rosa Vertner Jeffrey

Young Love went sailing without fear
Upon a lotus-leaf,
Though Reason said, "Pray let me stee...

Suggested by a notice of Sir Douglas Forsyth's account of the buried cities of the Gobi desert, ...

Once, in a multitude, I met a woman tall and proud,
So fair my heart bowed down to her in hom...

Godfrey de Bouillon, Duke of Lorrain, refused a throne in Jerusalem, saying, "I will never we...

A spectacle in heaven!--behold!--there is no tax to pay;
Space is our boundless theatre, domed...

I watched the sun with lurid splendor set,
While in the distance dim one tall, dark spire
App...

Pictures of sunset, yester eve,
The still lake underlying,
So charmed us we forgot to grieve...

They met in silence, soul to soul
Thrilled forth its voiceless story,
What time the moon on m...

Down on the seashore I found a shell,
Left by the tide in its noonday swell;
Only a white she...

A rose I cull for thee, one royal flower
Blooming alone, in regal pride apart;
Summer's last...

There's a staunch old Southern mansion near the broad Potomac River;
How long it has been stand...

Over the Rhineland border, ere it gleamed with sword and lance,
Came a brave young German, wo...

The night has come, when I may sleep,
To dream, perchance, of thee.
And where art thou? Whe...

I saw the young Morn in her beauty unfolding
Her radiant wings by the portals of Night,
And fr...

Wearily, drearily, mournfully fair,
By a deep river roves young Lilla Clare
At midnight. Oh!...