Paraphrases From David’s Psalms (Emma Lyon Poems)
Paraphrased From David's Psalms. Psalm XIX.THE arched heavens ere since the birth of timeInstruct the earth, in characters sublime, ...
Paraphrased From David's Psalms. Psalm XIX.THE arched heavens ere since the birth of timeInstruct the earth, in characters sublime, ...
HOPE , heavenly maid! to thee I sing, Who hovering round the anguish'd heart, Dost steep ...
IS there on earth a charm more firmly binds,Than gentle gratitude congenial minds?That Goddess now, at whose soft shrine I ...
TO thee, bright Orb, my humid eyes I raise; To thee I sigh, reflecting as I gaze,How dark earth's ...
MY soul with joyful gratitude surveys The cheerful sun each day more splendid rise!The softest breezes fan me as ...
Descend , O Muse, With More Than Wonted Fire,Ere Deadly Silence Steals Upon My Lyre; Come, Let The Solemn ...
BE thou, Indifference! my song,And as life's days glide careless on, I'll shed no sorrowing tear;If thou wilt in ...
AS late the Muse in silent hour I sought,And chanc'd to rove the various field of thought,Where many a trifle ...
ARISE ! O generous band, rejoice, Awake the lyre's melodious voice!Who glory in the fostering care That cheers ...
WAFT , Halcyon pow'r, thy gentle gales In murmurs through the mellowing air;Come, strew with cheerful green the vales, ...
AH ! Fortune, turn thy mazy wheel,If aught of good the fates conceal, To cheer my natal day;To scatter ...
OH ! Lady, listen to my tale, 'Twill drive the roses from thy cheek;"Let soft humanity prevail, "And ...
ONCE more, O Muse, (though long my lyre unstrung,)Arise, and break the silence of my tongue:Come, join with fancy in ...
WHEN Winter's silver mantle spreads the ground, And robes fair nature in her vestment pale,My wand'ring eyes gaze o'er ...
OH ! that amid this wandering maze of care,Where short-liv'd pleasure meets o'erwhelming woeAt every turn; e'en where bright virtue ...
STERN tyrant! blot on nature's brow! Accurst Revenge! of darkness bred;Engender'd on the dismal bough, Whence issu'd all ...
BEHOLD yonder Maniac! how swiftly she flies, O'er hills, and o'er mountains, still deep'ning her sighs,She laughs at the ...
BEHOLD yonder Maniac! how swiftly she flies, O'er hills, and o'er mountains, still deep'ning her sighs,She laughs at the ...
FAREWEL , sweet shelter of the vernal grove, For lo! sad Autumn, desolating pow'r!Along the vales thy faded beauties ...
OF thee, pale monarch, death! my verse shall sing, Though chilling moisture dews each tuneful string;And thou, sad willow, ...
WHO shall paint Anger in his furious form? The gloomy frown, the flashing of the storm,The violence that overleaps ...
HAIL , Fancy, hail! ungovernable pow'r, And tell my bosom how thy mimic art,Out-trav'lling time, can in one fleeting ...
HOW glorious the breast that in life's early morn, Ambition! enkindles thy flame;Who pants for thy trophies, and longs ...
NOW smiling nature gay appears, Sweet emblem of our happy years,When thoughtless of the wintry gloom, Old age, ...
THE sigh that struggles in my breast,The tear that fain would give it rest, Can no relief impart;Since first ...
SWEET Sleep! that unsolicited to all, In night's dark robe descending from the sky,Soft as the dews upon the ...
ADVERSITY ! whose gloomy face Still haunts my wearied eye,What bosom can thy sorrows chase, By thee once ...
WHILE thought unbending wings thy playful hour, Say, lovely Princess! dares my Muse advance?Or hope, mild beaming in thy ...
OH ! where amid this dreary scene Of enmity and strife,Unvex'd with many a thorn between, Can spring ...
PALE sorrow's cloud rests on my Muse's bow'r, And mourns the drooping of each vernal flow'r;"Their early fall," she ...
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