Lines To The Muse (Emma Lyon Poems)
ONCE more, O Muse, (though long my lyre unstrung,)Arise, and break the silence of my tongue:Come, join with fancy in ...
ONCE more, O Muse, (though long my lyre unstrung,)Arise, and break the silence of my tongue:Come, join with fancy in ...
LIFE! I know not what thou art, But know that thou and I must part; And when, or how, or ...
THE sun is setting--not in colours gay, But pure as when he blazed with noonday heat; The upland path is ...
THUS spake the Almighty Lord enthroned in light,To a pure Spirit of th' empyreal choir,"Thou, 'midst my seraph host divinely ...
Threading a darksome passage all alone, The taper's flame, by envious current blown, Crouched low, and eddied round, as in ...
Muse of my native land! loftiest Muse! O first-born on the mountains! by the hues Of heaven on the spiritual ...
It is full winter now: the trees are bare, Save where the cattle huddle from the cold Beneath the pine, ...
Through airy roads he wings his instant flight To purer regions of celestial light; Enlarg'd he sees unnumber'd systems roll, ...
Thy various works, imperial queen, we see, How bright their forms! how deck'd with pomp by thee! Thy wond'rous acts ...
WHILE deep you mourn beneath the cypress-shade The hand of Death, and your dear daughter laid In dust, whose absence ...
WHERE contemplation finds her sacred spring, Where heav'nly music makes the arches ring, Where virtue reigns unsully'd and divine, Where ...
By night we linger'd on the lawn, For underfoot the herb was dry; And genial warmth; and o'er the sky ...
Forever fair, forever calm and bright, Life flies on plumage, zephyr-light, For those who on the Olympian hill rejoice-- Moons ...
Now Morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl, When Adam waked, so ...
High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind, Or where the ...
All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued, Through Heaven's wide champain held his way; till Morn, Waked by the circling Hours, ...
Mean while the heinous and despiteful act Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how He, in the serpent, had perverted ...
Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven firstborn, Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblam'd? since God ...
Descend from Heaven, Urania, by that name If rightly thou art called, whose voice divine Following, above the Olympian hill ...
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and ...
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