On Sensibility.- A Fragment. (Isabella Lickbarrow Poems)
OH Sensibility, thou dangerous gift,Which, like Pandora's fabled box, containsCompounded good and ill, the fountain headAnd source whence flow the ...
OH Sensibility, thou dangerous gift,Which, like Pandora's fabled box, containsCompounded good and ill, the fountain headAnd source whence flow the ...
WINIFRED WATERS, when I look on you now,-With the sweet peace of God on your beautiful browAs you lie lily-white ...
I buried love and doomed myself to beIts monument. Above the recent graveUpon myself I carved a dozen lines,Beyond my ...
Law! what is law? The wise and sage, Of every clime and every age, In this most cordially unite, That ...
Through the lattice rushes the south wind, dense With fumes of the flowery frankincense From hawthorn blossoming thickly; And gold ...
Vanity of vanities, all is vanity--SOLOMON.What are life's joys and gains?What pleasures crowd its ways,That man should take such painsTo ...
ALAS! for that voice which the envoy of Heaven, In accents celestial, pour'd sweet on the ear,That when the ...
How long, ah me! this weary heart hath strivenWith vanity, and with a wild desire!How long, and yet how long, ...
'Twas a Venerable Person, whom I met one Sunday morning,All appareled as a prophet of a melancholy sect;And in a ...
You, if it fall to you to take From us the lamp that Athens gave, Fill it with mercy for ...
Twas a sick young man with a face ungayAnd an eye that was all alone;And he shook his head in ...
By myself walking,To myself talking,When as I ruminateOn my untoward fate,Scarcely seem IAlone sufficiently,Black thoughts continuallyCrowding my privacy;They come unbidden,Like ...
I would have been as great as George EliotBut for an untoward fate.For look at the photograph of me made ...
Boaz, overcome with weariness, by torchlight made his pallet on the threshing floor where all day he had worked, and ...
I "Percussus sum sicut foenum, et aruit cor meum." - Ps. ci Wintertime nighs; But my bereavement-pain It cannot bring ...
Old Deuteronomy's lived a long time; He's a Cat who has lived many lives in succession. He was famous in ...
High from the earth I heard a bird, He trod upon the trees As he esteemed them trifles, And then ...
I had eight birds hatched in one nest, Four cocks there were, and hens the rest. I nursed them up ...
'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede - Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to ...
I There was a roaring in the wind all night; The rain came heavily and fell in floods; But now ...
I would have been as great as George Eliot But for an untoward fate. For look at the photograph of ...
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