On The Death Of An Infant (Anne C Lynch Poems)
Why should we weep for thee,Since thou hast gone unsullied back to heaven,No stain upon thy spirit's purity, ...
Why should we weep for thee,Since thou hast gone unsullied back to heaven,No stain upon thy spirit's purity, ...
Untrodden, drear, and lone, Stretched many a league away,Beneath a burning, noonday sun, The Syrian desert lay.The scorching rays that ...
A beauty like young womanhood's Upon the green earth lies,And June's sweet smile hath waked again All summer's harmonies.The insects ...
Throw open, once again, The portals of the tomb;And give, among the glorious dead, Another hero room!Unclose your shadowy ranks, ...
Oh, stern indeed must be that minstrel's heart, In the world's dusty highway doomed to move,Who with life's sunshine and ...
Where the dark primeval forests Rise against the western skyAnd "the Father of the Waters" In his strength goes rushing ...
Maiden! in whose kindling eye,Burns the fire of prophecy,On whose brow its glories shine,Priestess at the hidden shrine;Tell me what ...
Nay, read it not, thou wouldst not know What lives within my heart,For from that fount it does not flow; ...
I know not if thy noble worth My country's annals claim,For in her brief, bright history I have not read ...
The brilliant west is glowing, With sunset's farewell ray;The silver waves are flowing, On to the distant sea;The pale bright ...
I see the sons of Genius rise The nobles of our land;And foremost in the gathering ranks I see the ...
Speak low -- tread softly through these halls; Here genius lives enshrined, --Here reign, in silent majesty, The monarchs of ...
A glorious vision burst On Europe's dazzled sight, Upon that day when first Columbia sprang to light; --When ...
Go, ye sweet messengers, To that dim-lighted room,Where lettered wisdom from the walls Sheds a delightful gloom; Where ...
More proudly on thy winding course, Dark Alleghany! flow;The noblest burden thou couldst bear Is on thy waters now.But calm ...
I love to look on that eye of blue,For tears have not yet worn a channel through;And the few bright ...
Child of the thoughtful brow,The speaking eye and the confiding look! List to those teachings now,And make thy guiding ...
Heaven lies about us in our infancy.Sweet child of fairy land! since first I dwelt, with tearful eye,Upon the page ...
Fresh, through the mist of ages past, Thou risest on our view,As when from Judah's waving fields, Thy footsteps brushed ...
Our patriot sires are gone, The conqueror Death lays low Those veterans one by one, Who braved each ...
Why bends she o'er that glittering toy With such an earnest gaze,As if those flashing jewels cast Love glances in ...
The enthusiast brooding in his cell apart O'er the sad image of the Crucified, — The drooping head, closed lips ...
As some dark stream within a cavern's breast, Flows murmuring, moaning for the distant sun,So ere I met thee, murmuring ...
The mountain lake, o'ershadowed by the hills, May still gaze heavenward on the evening star,Whose distant light its dark recesses ...
Give me the bracelets that your warriors wear, The Roman traitress to the Sabine cried, "Give me the toys, and ...
Securely cabined in the ship below, Through darkness and through storm I cross the sea, A pathless wilderness of waves ...
Ah no! my love knows no vain jealousy: The rose that blooms and lives but in the sun, Asks not ...
Thou brave old Titan, that in chains didst lie, Bound to the rock on the Caucasian hill,Who by sublime endurance ...
The honey-bee that wanders all day long, The field, the woodland, and the garden o'er, To gather in his fragrant ...
Oh bard! what though upon thy mortal eyes There fell no glimmering ray of earthly light, And the deep shadow ...
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