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 ...
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 ...
WHEN fallen man from Paradise was driven, Forth to a world of labour, death, and care; Still, of his native ...
ON Dinan's walls the morning sunlight plays, Gilds the stern fortress with a crown of rays, Shines on the children's ...
I.OF all the joys that brighten suffering earth, What joy is welcomed like a new-born child? What life so wretched, ...
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 ...
I.IT was a Highland chieftain's son Gazed sadly from the hill: And they saw him shrink from the autumn wind, ...
I CANNOT love thee, tho' thy soul Be one which all good thoughts control; Altho' thy eyes be starry bright, ...
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 ...
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.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 ...
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 ...
I.WHEN first, beloved, in vanish'd hours The blind man sought thy love to gain, They said thy cheek was bright ...
I.WHEN first thou camest, gentle, shy, and fond, My eldest-born, first hope, and dearest treasure, My heart received thee with ...
I.MAY-DAY is come!--While yet the unwillng Spring Checks with capricious frown the opening year, Onward, where bleak winds have been ...
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 ...
PILGRIM, who toilest up life's weary steep, To reach the summit still with pleasure crowned;Born but to sigh and ...
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