Selina (Mary Hopkins Pilkington Poems)
NOT far from Tyvy's banks and bayAn humble dwelling rose;Around its walls the woodbine twin'd,Encircled with the rose.The purple violet ...
NOT far from Tyvy's banks and bayAn humble dwelling rose;Around its walls the woodbine twin'd,Encircled with the rose.The purple violet ...
NOT in a verdant varying vale,Not shelter'd by a wood,Not sweetly fann'd by zephyr's gale,Or margin'd by a flood,Whose gentle ...
DECEMBER'S hollow winds had howl'd,And whistled through the air;The leafless trees an emblem stoodOf sorrow and despair.Beneath an aged oak ...
NO more let Europe's offspring boastSuperior sense and worth;Or fancy virtue is attach'dTo any spot of earth;Nor e'er suppose that ...
WHEN evening's pale light had retired from the plain,And night had the valley o'erspread;When the dew was converted to big ...
ONCE more I'll endeavour to paint,In language which flows from the heart ,Those wishes , which make language faint,Those feelings ...
THE worst of tortures fate can findTo lacerate the feeling mind,And rob the soul of rest,Is, when its adverse laws ...
THIS crested pin, I heard you say,Was like a beam from fortune's ray,Portending some event that's kind,To soothe my griefs, ...
OH, sweet Humanity! if e'erThe tide of pity in this breastShould be calcin'd by grief and care,Or stagnate--from my being ...
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