The Shipwreck, (Elizabeth Scot Poems)
OR MELANCHOLY FATE OF CAPT. PIERCE AND HIS TWO DAUGHTERS. ETERNAL Power! who rul'st with sovereign willWho bid'st the tempest ...
OR MELANCHOLY FATE OF CAPT. PIERCE AND HIS TWO DAUGHTERS. ETERNAL Power! who rul'st with sovereign willWho bid'st the tempest ...
No Cautions of a Matron, Old and Sage, Young Rattlehead to Prudence cou'd engage; But forth the Offspring of her ...
FLUSH'D, from my restless pillow I arose, To calm my thoughts, sad stranger to repose; Wandering through woods, by night's ...
IN vain my eye-lids seek reposeWhile midnight spreads her thickest gloom,My heart, a stranger to repose,Still bleeds o'er poor departed ...
THE sweet enthusiast, on a rock reclin'd, With transport listen'd to the dashing waves;Her snowy garments swam upon the ...
OH ! Lady, listen to my tale, 'Twill drive the roses from thy cheek;"Let soft humanity prevail, "And ...
O thou, who turnest this impassioned leaf, Where Anguish claims the sympathetic grief, If no relentless prejudice can bind In ...
The press of the Spoon River Clarion was wrecked,And I was tarred and feathered,For publishing this on the day the ...
Yea, she hath passed hereby, and blessed the sheaves, And the great garths, and stacks, and quiet farms,And all the ...
On my toil-wither'd limbs sickly languors are shed,And the dark mists of death o'er my eye-lids are spread;Before my last ...
O Tragic hours when lovers leave each other !Then every mistress feels herself a mother,And, making of her lap a ...
Thou child of Night and Silence, balmy Sleep,Shed thy soft poppies on my aching brow!And charm to rest the thoughts ...
I Some day I will go to Aarhus To see his peat-brown head, The mild pods of his eye-lids, His ...
My pensive SARA ! thy soft cheek reclined Thus on mine arm, most soothing sweet it is To sit beside ...
(Composed at Clevedon, Somersetshire) My pensive Sara! thy soft cheek reclined Thus on mine arm, most soothing sweet it is ...
Ere on my bed my limbs I lay, It hath not been my use to pray With moving lips or ...
Here is paper, pen, and inke, That your heart and seale may sinke Into such markes as may expresse A ...
Now Morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl, When Adam waked, so ...
O, for that warning voice, which he, who saw The Apocalypse, heard cry in Heaven aloud, Then when the Dragon, ...
O'RE the smooth enameld green Where no print of step hath been, Follow me as I sing, And touch the ...
The press of the Spoon River Clarion was wrecked, And I was tarred and feathered, For publishing this on the ...
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