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 ...
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, ...
I CANNOT love thee, tho' thy soul Be one which all good thoughts control; Altho' thy eyes be starry bright, ...
SPIRIT! who over this our mortal Earth, Where nought hath birth Which imperfection doth not some way dim, Since Earth ...
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 ...
IT was a fever-dream; I lay Awake, as in the broad bright day, But faint and worn I drew my ...
Written on the occasion of the death of the infant daughter of Her Grace the Duchess of Sutherland. I.HARK, through ...
HOW Memory haunts us! When we fain would be Alone and free, Uninterrupted by his mournful words, Faint, indistinct, as ...
Two beautiful and rosy babes are pictured here alone, Two infants of a noble race, as any near the throne:-- ...
A WORD is ringing thro' my brain, It was not meant to give me pain; It had no tone to ...
I.As by his lonely hearth he sate, The shadow of a welcome dream Pass'd o'er his heart,--disconsolate His home did ...
A CHEER to keep our hearts up, A cup to drown our tears, And we'll talk of those who perished, ...
AS when from dreams awakingThe dim forms float awayWhose visioned smiles were makingOur darkness bright as day;We vainly strive, while ...
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