A Voice From The Factories (Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton Poems)
WHEN fallen man from Paradise was driven, Forth to a world of labour, death, and care; Still, of his native ...
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.OF all the joys that brighten suffering earth, What joy is welcomed like a new-born child? What life so wretched, ...
I.SHE came to England from the island clime Which lies beyond the far Atlantic wave; She died in early youth--before ...
RUINS! A charm is in the word: It makes us smile, it makes us sigh, 'Tis like the note of ...
AH! I remember when I was a girl How my hair naturally used to curl, And how my aunt four ...
NEVER again! When first that sentence fell From lips so loth the bitter truth to tell, Death seemed the balance ...
I WAS a laughing child, and gaily dweltWhere murmuring brooks, and dark blue rivers roll'd,And shadowy trees outspread their silent ...
IT is the twilight hour, The daylight toil is done, And the last rays are departing Of the cold and ...
O, FRIEND! whose heart the grave doth shroud from human joy or woe, Know'st thou who wanders by thy tomb, ...
A MOMENT since, he stood unmoved--alone; Courage and thought on his resolvēd brow; But hope is quivering in the broken ...
(Of my Brother's infant Son, February 21, 1839.)I.THERE is a sound of laughter light and gay, And hurried welcomes, as ...
I.ONCE more the people meet, With glad expectant faces: once again The fair young monarch and her lovely train, With ...
I.AH, cease to plead with that sweet cheerful voice, Nor bid me struggle with a weight of woe, Lest from ...
MY beautiful! my beautiful! that standest meekly by With thy proudly arched and glossy neck, and dark and fiery eye; ...
A LONE, wayfaring wretch I saw, who stood Wearily pausing by the wicket gate; And from his eyes there streamed ...
SHE is standing by her loved one's side, A young and a fair and a gentle bride, But mournfulness hath ...
I.MAY-DAY is come!--While yet the unwillng Spring Checks with capricious frown the opening year, Onward, where bleak winds have been ...
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 ...
A WORD is ringing thro' my brain, It was not meant to give me pain; It had no tone to ...
PILGRIM, who toilest up life's weary steep, To reach the summit still with pleasure crowned;Born but to sigh and ...
I.HUSH, moaning autumn wind! be still, be still! Thy grieving voice forbiddeth hearts to rest; We hear thee sweeping down ...
THEY loved one another! young Edward and his wife,And in their cottage-home they dwelt, apart from sin and strife.Each evening ...
A CHEER to keep our hearts up, A cup to drown our tears, And we'll talk of those who perished, ...
I.IN old Shuil Donald's cottage there are many voices weeping, And stifled sobs, and murmurings of sorrow wild and vain, ...
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