The Rural Life In New England. Canto Second (Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney Poems)
In the gay and crowded cityWhere the tall and jostling roof-treesJealous seem of one another,Jealous of the ground they stand ...
In the gay and crowded cityWhere the tall and jostling roof-treesJealous seem of one another,Jealous of the ground they stand ...
FAR in the west, where still the red man heldHis rights unrifled, dwelt an aged chief,With his young daughter. Joyous ...
LADY Flora gave cards for a party at tea,To flowers, buds, and blossoms of every degree;So from town and from ...
HO! City of the gay! Paris! what festal riteDoth call thy thronging million forth, All eager for the sight?Thy soldiers line the ...
What hast thou seen, with thy shining eye, Thou Needle, so subtle and keen?--"I have been in Paradise, stainless and fair.And ...
Died at Hartford, August 4th, 1861; and his wife, Mrs. ELIZA STORRSTRUMBULL, the night after his funeral.Death's shafts fly thick, ...
FOR the first time, a lovely sceneEarth saw, and smiled,--A gentle form with pallid mienBending o'er a newborn child:The pang, ...
Died at Hartford, Sunday, May 5th, 1861.She found a painless avenue to makeThe great transition from a world of careTo ...
Late Chief Justice of Connecticut, died at Hartford, on Sunday morning,December 15th, 1861, aged 84. 'Tis not for pen and ink,Or ...
Died at Hartford, on Friday morning, January 10th, 1862.And hath he fallen,--whom late we saw In manly vigor bold?That stately form,--that ...
I have crept forth to die among the trees.They have sweet voices that I love to hear,Sweet, lute-like voices. They ...
Where are ye, spirits of the dead?That erst with us held converse kind?Bright o'er our hearts your sunlight shedAnd with ...
Died at Hartford, April 30th, 1861, aged 22.I saw a brilliant bridal. All that cheersAnd charms the leaping heart of youth ...
Wife of Govenor ELLSWORTH, and daughter of Noah Webster, LL.D., diedat Hartford, August 23d, 1861.Not with the common forms of ...
Why gaze ye on my hoary hairs,Ye children young and gay?Your locks, beneath the blast of cares,Will bleach as white ...
Pastor of the Fifth Avenue Church, New York, died at the VirginiaSprings, July, 1859.The great and good. How startling is ...
Flow on for ever, in thy glorious robeOf terror and of beauty. Yea, flow onUnfathom'd and resistless. God hath setHis ...
Died at Hartford, on Saturday Evening, November 15th, 1862, aged 62years.A sense of loss is on us. One hath gone Whose ...
Died at Hartford, January 29th, 1862, aged 92.We saw him on a winter's day, Beneath the hallowed dome,Where for so many ...
Died at Hartford, December 30th, 1861.Sorrow and Joy collude. One mansion hearsThe children shouting o'er their Christmas Tree,While in the ...
Died in Norwich, Connecticut, January 18th, 1862, aged 92.Had I an artist's pencil, I might sketchHer as she was, in ...
Died at Hartford, Wednesday, June 19th, 1861.They multiply above, with whom we walk'dIn tender friendship, and whose steadfast step,Onward and ...
For many years Pastor of a Church in Durham, Conn., died at Fair Haven,March 3d, 1862, aged 94.The transcript of ...
Died at Hartford, May 4th, 1860.Aye, robe yourselves in black, light messengersWhose letter'd faces to the people tellThe pulse and ...
Died at Hartford, January 26th, 1862, aged 61.We did not think it would be so;-- We keptThe hope-lamp trimm'd and burning. ...
Toil on! toil on! ye ephemeral train,Who build in the tossing and treacherous main;Toil on,--for the wisdom of man ye ...
When was the redman's summer?When the roseHung its first banner out? When the gray rock,Or the brown heath, the radiant ...
Thou'rt beautiful, my flower, -my winter flower!-These many weeks I've watch'd thy graceful meshOf silvery roots, making their busy wayDown ...
Daughter of Col. SAMUEL and Mrs. ELIZABETH COLT, died January 20th,1862, aged 7 months and 27 days.THE MOURNING MOTHER.A tomb ...
I fain would be thy pupil, mighty Deep!Yet speak thou gently to me, for I fearThy liquid terror, and I ...
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