Lines (Maria Gowen Brooks Poems)
COMPOSED AT THE REQUEST OF A LADY WHO RETURNED TO THE NORTH AND DIED SOON AFTER.ADIEU, fair isle! I love ...
COMPOSED AT THE REQUEST OF A LADY WHO RETURNED TO THE NORTH AND DIED SOON AFTER.ADIEU, fair isle! I love ...
ADIEU, fair isle! I love thy bowers, I love thy dark-eyed daughters there;The cool pomegranate's scarlet flowers Look brighter in their jetty ...
O nation, Christian nation, Lift high the hymn of praiseThe God of our Salvation Is love in all His ways:He blesseth us, ...
Love still has something of the sea,From whence his Mother rose;No time his slaves from doubt can free,Nor give their ...
THE BROTHERS.Than old George Fletcher, on the British coastDwelt not a seaman who had more to boast:Kind, simple and sincere--he ...
Fear! I'm a Greek, and how should I fear death?A slave, and wherefore should I dread my freedom?I will not ...
I cannot hide from thee how much I fearThe whispers breathed by flatterers in thine earAgainst my faith: — but ...
OF all the Poisons that the fruitful Earth E'er yet brought forth, or Monsters she gave Birth, Nought to Mankind ...
Like an advent'rous seafarer am I, Who hath some long and dang'rous voyage been, And, call'd to tell of his ...
Since all, that beat about in Nature's range, Or veer or vanish ; why should'st thou remain The only constant ...
Friend of the Wise ! and Teacher of the Good ! Into my heart have I received that Lay More ...
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
On this my pensive pillow, gentle Sleep! Descend, in all thy downy plumage drest: Wipe with thy wing these eyes ...
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