Sir Henry De Vaux (Lady Caroline Lamb Poems)
Sir Henry De Vaux came across the sea, To visit his native clime;A face like an angel of light had he, But ...
Sir Henry De Vaux came across the sea, To visit his native clime;A face like an angel of light had he, But ...
How strange is Love: I am not oneWho Cupid's power belittles,For Cupid 'tis who makes me shunMy customary victuals.Of, Effie, ...
Upon the painter's easel standsThe latest picture from his hands.The canvas shows a sunset glowReflected in the lake below,While mountains ...
I.Our fathers' God! from out whose handThe centuries fall like grains of sand,We meet to-day, united, free,And loyal to our ...
F. OF H. I want a verse. It gives you little pains;--You just sit down, and draw upon your brains.Come, ...
When to sweet music my lady is dancing My heart to mild frenzy her beauty inspires. Into my face are her brown ...
Let the classic pilgrim rove,By Egeria's fount to stand,Or sit in Vancluse's grot of love,Afar from his native land;Let him ...
Trade, Trade versus Art,Brain, Brain versus Heart;Oh, the earthiness of these hard-hearted times,When clinking dollars, and jingling dimes,Drown all the ...
Flapping fierce her gory pinions, Whetting sharp her crimson beak,Vulture War her barbarous minions, Calls her ghastly prey to seek.Now her hideous ...
Old Ironsides at anchor lay,In the harbor of Mahon;A dead calm rested on the bay--The waves to sleep had gone;When ...
Pour ye a wail of the wildest E'er wrung from a worn heart and mind!Tears and entreaties the mildest Are blown like ...
We come with peace and reason, We come with love and light,To banish black self-treason And everlasting night.We know no god nor ...
(Written in her sixteenth year.)The sky is pure, the clouds are light,The moonbeams glitter cold and bright;O'er the wide landscape ...
WITH potent north winds rushing swiftly down,Blended in glorious chant, on yester-nightOld Winter came with locks and beard of white.The ...
When you wake from troubled slumbers With a dream-bewildered brain,And old leaves which no man numbers Chattering tap against the pane;And the ...
WHILE sauntering through the crowded street,Some half-remembered face I meet,Albeit upon no mortal shoreThat face, methinks, hath smiled before.Lost in ...
One balmy summer night, Mary, Just as the risen moonHad thrown aside her fleecy veil, We left the gay saloon;And in a ...
"'Scurious-like," said the tree-toad, "I've twittered far rain all day; And I got up soon, And I hollered till noon-- But the sun, hit ...
I am not ambitious at all: I am not a poet, I know (Though I do love to see a mere scrawl To ...
One may read from the face at leisure, From the leaf that reflects the soul, The thought, the desire, and the measure That ...
I.NOT without envy Wealth at times must lookOn their brown strength who wield the reaping-hook."And scythe, or at the forge-fire ...
The joy of man, the pride of brutes,Domestic subject for disputes,Of plenty thou the emblem fair,Adorn'd by nymphs with all ...
Regard the capture here, 0 Janus-faced,As double as the hands that twist this glass.Such eves at search or rest you ...
IN Siberia's wastes The ice-wind's breathWoundeth like the toothed steel;Lost Siberia doth reveal Only blight and death.Blight and death alone. No Summer shines.Night ...
The ills of all the human race,The woes of earth that bring disgraceWould banish, if we only could,Escape the fiend, ...
there's only ever one argument: his,bawling out whoever punctuatesthe brief intervals his cussinginterrupts, something unheard, reason perhaps.What you never get ...
I.Haydon! forgive me that I cannot speakDefinitively of these mighty things;Forgive me, that I have not eagle's wings,That what I ...
From "Wild Thorn and Lily"Among the white haw-blossoms, where the creekDroned under drifts of dogwood and of haw,The redbird, like ...
Pale-faced is he, as in the doorHe stands and trembles visibly,--With diffidence approaches me,And says: "Dear editor,"Since write you must, ...
The cursive crawl, the squared-off charactersthese by themselves delight, even withouta meaning, in a foreign language, inChinese, for instance, or ...
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