As When From Dreams Awaking (Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton Poems)
AS when from dreams awakingThe dim forms float awayWhose visioned smiles were makingOur darkness bright as day;We vainly strive, while ...
AS when from dreams awakingThe dim forms float awayWhose visioned smiles were makingOur darkness bright as day;We vainly strive, while ...
WHEN fallen man from Paradise was driven, Forth to a world of labour, death, and care; Still, of his native ...
I.WHAT shalt THOU know of Spring? A verdant crown Of young boughs waving o'er thy blooming head: White tufted Guelder-roses, ...
'TIS done--the night has pass'd away; And, basking in the sunny day, The laughing fountain's waters bear No record of ...
ON Dinan's walls the morning sunlight plays, Gilds the stern fortress with a crown of rays, Shines on the children's ...
SILENT old gateway! whose two columns stand Like simple monuments on either hand; No trellised iron-work, with pleasant view Of ...
I.SHE came to England from the island clime Which lies beyond the far Atlantic wave; She died in early youth--before ...
I.MY lay is ended! closed the circling year, From Spring's first dawn to Winter's darkling night; The moan of sorrow, ...
NEVER again! When first that sentence fell From lips so loth the bitter truth to tell, Death seemed the balance ...
SPIRIT! who over this our mortal Earth, Where nought hath birth Which imperfection doth not some way dim, Since Earth ...
I.HERE, where the rain-drops may not fall, the sunshine doth not play, Where the unfelt and distant breeze in whispers ...
SOUND not the Horn!--the guarded relic keep: A faithful sharer of its master's sleep: His life it gladden'd--to his life ...
I.ONCE more the people meet, With glad expectant faces: once again The fair young monarch and her lovely train, With ...
FRIEND of old days, of suffering, storm, and strife, Patient and kind through many a wild appeal; In the arena ...
I.OH! watch me; watch me still Thro' the long night's dreary hours, Uphold by thy firm will Worn Nature's sinking ...
ONCE more, my harp! once more, although I thought Never to wake thy silent strings again, A wandering dream thy ...
MY beautiful! my beautiful! that standest meekly by With thy proudly arched and glossy neck, and dark and fiery eye; ...
IT was a fever-dream; I lay Awake, as in the broad bright day, But faint and worn I drew my ...
I.BY the rush of the Rhine's broad stream, Down whose rapid tide We sailed as in some sweet dream Sitting ...
THE captive pirate sate alone,Musing over triumphs gone,Gazing on the clear blue skyFrom his dungeon window high.Dreamingly he sate, and ...
DO you remember all the sunny places, Where in bright days, long past, we played together? Do you remember all ...
I.As by his lonely hearth he sate, The shadow of a welcome dream Pass'd o'er his heart,--disconsolate His home did ...
OH! treasured thus by passion's slave, Dear relic of the bygone year; Say, what remains of her who gave? The ...
ROSY child, with forehead fair, Coral lip, and shining hair, In whose mirthful, clever eyes Such a world of gladness ...
I.'Twas in youth, that hour of dreaming; Round me, visions fair were beaming, Golden fancies, brightly gleaming, Such as start ...
WITH none to heed or mark The prisoner in his cell, In a dungeon, lone and dark, He tuned his ...
AS when from dreams awakingThe dim forms float awayWhose visioned smiles were makingOur darkness bright as day;We vainly strive, while ...
IMRA! thy form is vanished From the proud and patriot band; Imra! thy voice is silent, 'Mongst the voices of ...
The poplars are fell'd: farewell to the shade,And the whispering sound of the cool colonnade;The winds play no longer and ...
WHEN, poor in all but hope and love, I clasped thee to my faithful heart; For wealth and fame I ...
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