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.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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
SPIRIT! who over this our mortal Earth, Where nought hath birth Which imperfection doth not some way dim, Since Earth ...
A MOMENT since, he stood unmoved--alone; Courage and thought on his resolvēd brow; But hope is quivering in the broken ...
I.HERE, where the rain-drops may not fall, the sunshine doth not play, Where the unfelt and distant breeze in whispers ...
I.ONCE more the people meet, With glad expectant faces: once again The fair young monarch and her lovely train, With ...
I.IT is the music of her native land,-- The airs she used to love in happier days; The lute is ...
PEACE to their ashes! Far away they lie, Among their poor, beneath the equal sky. Among their poor, who blessed ...
I.AH, cease to plead with that sweet cheerful voice, Nor bid me struggle with a weight of woe, Lest from ...
I.OH! watch me; watch me still Thro' the long night's dreary hours, Uphold by thy firm will Worn Nature's sinking ...
'TWAS a bright May morn, and each opening flower Lay sunning itself in Flora's bower; Young Love, who was fluttering ...
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 ...
A LONE, wayfaring wretch I saw, who stood Wearily pausing by the wicket gate; And from his eyes there streamed ...
Written on the occasion of the death of the infant daughter of Her Grace the Duchess of Sutherland. I.HARK, through ...
I.WHEN first, beloved, in vanish'd hours The blind man sought thy love to gain, They said thy cheek was bright ...
SHE is standing by her loved one's side, A young and a fair and a gentle bride, But mournfulness hath ...
THE captive pirate sate alone,Musing over triumphs gone,Gazing on the clear blue skyFrom his dungeon window high.Dreamingly he sate, and ...
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