A Contrast (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
Trained tenderly by Heaven and Earth,Up grew she to her gentle height,-Grew to the level of the lightThat shines by ...
Trained tenderly by Heaven and Earth,Up grew she to her gentle height,-Grew to the level of the lightThat shines by ...
FAIR OTAHEITE , fondly blest By him who long was doom'd to brave The fury of the Polar wave, That fiercely mounts the ...
When man had ceased to utter his lament, A god then let me tell my tale of sorrow.WHAT hope of once ...
'Tis the first sanction Nature gave to man,Each other to assist in what they can;Just or unjust, this law for ...
True as the church clock hand the hour pursuesHe plods about his toils and reads the news,And at the blacksmith's ...
Si veris magna paraturFama bonis, et se successu nuda remotoInspicitur virtus, quicquid laudamus in ulloMajorum, ortuna fuit.- LucanWhilst martial echoes ...
Hark! how the Orient's bells are proclaiming Obsequies strange to the shrines of the west--Services Christendom's cruelties shaming-- Taught by the merciful, ...
To a FriendHOW steep yon mountains rise around,How bold yon gloomy woods ascend!How loud the rushing torrents soundThat midst these ...
PASSION brings reason—who can pacifyAn anguish'd heart whose loss hath been so great?Where are the hours that fled so swiftly ...
Departed soul, whose sudden calm deceaseCame in the moment when thy joyous heartWelcom'd the birth-hour of thy latest born-Thou at ...
Far off (no matter whether east or west,A real country, or one made in jest,Nor yet by modern Mandevilles disgraced,Nor ...
Like a flood river whirled at rocky banks,An army issues out of wilderness,With battle plucking round its ragged flanks;Obstruction in ...
'Twas night, and now advanc'd the solemn hour;The keeper of the prison, from his tow'r, Astonish'd, sees a form divinely ...
It was a young Examiner, scarce thirty were his years, His name our University loves, honours, and reveres: He pondered ...
WHAT universal sadness glooms around!Oh! is he gone whose worth the heart reveres!That solemn bell's now doubly awful sound,Alas! too ...
When man had ceased to utter his lament, A god then let me tell my tale of sorrow. WHAT hope ...
PASSION brings reason--who can ...
TO you, my friends, allow me to detail, The feats of monks in Catalonia's vale, Where oft the holy fathers ...
Nightfall, that saw the morning-glories float Tendril and string against the crumbling wall, Nurses him now, his skeleton for grief, ...
[As a Tribute of Esteem and Admiration this Poem is inscribed to ROBERT MERRY, Esq. A. M. Member of the ...
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