Lines: Written to my Sister during her Passage to the West Indies (Emma Lyon Poems)
MY soul with joyful gratitude surveys The cheerful sun each day more splendid rise!The softest breezes fan me as ...
MY soul with joyful gratitude surveys The cheerful sun each day more splendid rise!The softest breezes fan me as ...
On a background of pale goldI would trace with quaint design,Penciled fine,Brilliant-colored, Moorish scenes,Mosques and crescents, pages, queens,Line on line,That ...
The tender Grace of a day that is past.The dew is on the roses, The owl hath spread her wing;And ...
WHEN Emma, in my humble cot,Her smiles bestow'd on me;Ah! then I thought, a happier lotThan mine could never be.The ...
WHEN to a distant scene remov'd, Louisa far away;Say, will not Emma, to her friend, One anxious thought ...
Occasioned by my Child's being unfortunately burnt todeath, at Plymouth Dock, in Devonshire. MY child--my child--my Emma's dead! What ...
SUPPRESS that cruel doubt, dear youth!That starting tear, that sigh reprove;Why dost thou wrong thine Emma's truth,And think that aught ...
Darkness succeeds to twilight: Through lattice and through skylightThe stars no doubt, if one looked out, Might be ...
OH ! where amid this dreary scene Of enmity and strife,Unvex'd with many a thorn between, Can spring ...
TAKE , O take this sweet impression, Bear it on thy snowy breast;Words are feeble in expression, Yet ...
THOU image of the dearest friend I love,If I remote in foreign scenes should rove,If such my unexpected lot should ...
EMMA JANE, Emma Jane, did iver you seeLikes o' her! Some folk is terrible proudOf a piano an' all. I'll ...
ADDRESSED TO EMMA.YES , it may be that time may disengage, From friendship's sweets, which now we fondly share;And ...
Far away, where darkness reigneth, All my dreams of bliss are flown;Yet with love my gaze remaineth Fixed on one ...
We have a small sculpture of Henry James on our terrace in New York City. Nothing would surprise him. The ...
"Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning." We call them here hope in these words of welcome, ...
Taking her buckets, going to gather water, her daily needs a visit at the well, epiphany The Christ, before her ...
The hope of America, in the words of liberty the hope of a new life, in freedom "Give us your ...
I'll tell of Canute, King of England, A native of Denmark was he, His hobbies was roving and raiding And ...
' SISTER, you've sat there all the day, Come to the hearth awhile; The wind so wildly sweeps away, The ...
Far away, where darkness reigneth, All my dreams of bliss are flown; Yet with love my gaze remaineth Fixed on ...
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