Invocation To Hope (Judith Sargent Murray Poems)
To the Editors of the Massachusetts Magazine.Gentlemen,The following imperfect Lines are with diffidence offered to your attention-they arose from the ...
To the Editors of the Massachusetts Magazine.Gentlemen,The following imperfect Lines are with diffidence offered to your attention-they arose from the ...
The strong River of Thought has an aye-changeful course,Yet for ever it springs from the same changeless sourceWhere God-given Truth ...
(OF AN UNFINISHED POEM.) Dear woman! star of sad life's clouded heaven,I dedicate myself to thee again; Fair woman! as ...
LATE was the hour; and hush'd each sound,When Egbert sought his downy bed;Tho' silence reign'd, yet balmy sleepHad from his ...
TO HUPNOS. I.Kind Comforter of all the weary Gods, With drooping eyelids, head that ever nods! Thou silent soother, that ...
a prayerO Mary, fragile mother, hear me, hear me now although I do not know your words. The black rosary ...
I stood in a dream between Life and Death, And I whisper'd to the twain—"Now, which of you has the ...
See in the babe two loveliest flowers united—yet in truth,While in the bud they seem the same—the virgin and the ...
Stay with me, Poesy! playmate of childhood!Friend of my manhood! delight of my youth!Roamer with me over valley and wildwood, ...
O'ER Royal Charlotte's sacred bierLet Britain pour the grateful tear;Ah! why should be represtSuch tears as pious children pay,When parent ...
OH, Hope! thou soother sweet of human woes.How shall I lure thee to my haunts forlorn?For me wilt thou renew ...
WHERE the hoarse billows rush upon the shore, Where shrieks some screech-owl's melancholy voice,Where the bleak winds in ...
President HooverFelt in need of a sootherAfter his little tiffWith Governor Al Smith.(Edmund Clerihew Bentley)
St. Agnes' Eve--Ah, bitter chill it was! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold; The hare limp'd trembling through ...
See in the babe two loveliest flowers united--yet in truth, While in the bud they seem the same--the virgin and ...
a prayer O Mary, fragile mother, hear me, hear me now although I do not know your words. The black ...
CESARIO, thy Lyre's dulcet measure, So sweetly, so tenderly flows; That could my sad soul taste of pleasure, Thy music ...
EXULT MY MUSE! exult to see Each envious, waspish, jealous thing, Around its harmless venom fling, And dart its powerless ...
WHEN FATE in ruthless rage assail'd my breast, And Heaven relentless seal'd the harsh decree; HOPE, placid soother of the ...
TELL ME, LOVE, when I rove o'er some far distant plain, Shall I cherish the passion that dwells in my ...
WHEN by Zeus relenting the mandate was revoked, Sentencing to exile the bright Sun-God, Mindful were the ploughmen of who ...
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