Hope’s Invitation (Laura Sophia Temple Poems)
The shades of the Night are now fading away,And Morn in her balmy effulgence is seen ;The lark pours his ...
The shades of the Night are now fading away,And Morn in her balmy effulgence is seen ;The lark pours his ...
Beside a spreading elm, from whose high boughsLike knotted tufts the crow's light dwelling shows,Where screen'd from northern blasts, and ...
We've traveled long together, O sister of my heart,Since first as little children All buoyant, we did startUpon Life's checkered pathway, Nor dreamed ...
THOU dear delightful vale adieu!Sweet spot, from early years belov'd,Enraptur'd still thy charms I view,Nor leave thee with a heart ...
My brother! my brother! my spirit oft cries,My brother! my brother! repeat my sad sighs;Thou art fled, dear youth, from ...
Where linger my love? In what peaceful valeOf the land of dreams is she lingering now,Where the spirit sad of ...
If we should ever meet again When many tedious years are past;When time shall have unbound the chain, And this sad heart ...
It is but a lone faded rosebudThat a dearly loved one gave to me,In years now long past but rememberedAnd ...
THE DUMB ORATORS; OR THE BENEFIT OF SOCIETY.That all men would be cowards if they dare,Some men we know have ...
DISPOSED to wed, e'en while you hasten, stay;There's great advantage in a small delay:Thus Ovid sang, and much the wise ...
On Nineveh's proud towers the sinking sun In cloudless splendor looks; nor, through the earth, Like glory doth behold. In ...
BENEATH a Tree's green leafy shade, In Life's profusion, freshly spread, On herbage rich, and blossoms fair, Fraught with the ...
We shall not forget them; why should pylons raiseMute appeal for reverence, rememb'rance and regret?Spectral cold in early dawn, and ...
'Mid wattle scents and sounds of Spring,The old man, dreaming in his chair,Is back where skylarks soar and singIn sunshine, ...
Alone walkingIn thought plaining,And sore sighing; All desolate,Me rememb'ringOf my living;My death wishing ...
Years may roll on, and manhood's brow grow cold,And life's dull winter spread its dark'ning pallO'er cherish'd hopes; yet time ...
FLORENTINE we now design to show;-- A greater blockhead ne'er appeared below; It seems a prudent woman he had wed, ...
Melancholy assaulting, and hope prevailing. To God I cried with mournful voice, I sought his gracious ear, In the sad ...
Yet one Song more! one high and solemn strain Ere PAEAN! on thy temple's ruined wall I hang the silent ...
I O THOU, that sit'st upon a throne, With harp of high majestic tone, To praise the King of kings; ...
WHEN, in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with ...
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