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 ...
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 ...
I.IT was a Highland chieftain's son Gazed sadly from the hill: And they saw him shrink from the autumn wind, ...
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, ...
SPIRIT! who over this our mortal Earth, Where nought hath birth Which imperfection doth not some way dim, Since Earth ...
(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.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 ...
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 ...
'TWAS a bright May morn, and each opening flower Lay sunning itself in Flora's bower; Young Love, who was fluttering ...
I.COME o'er the green hills to the sunny sea! The boundless sea that washeth many lands, Where shells unknown to ...
IT was a fever-dream; I lay Awake, as in the broad bright day, But faint and worn I drew my ...
I.WHEN first thou camest, gentle, shy, and fond, My eldest-born, first hope, and dearest treasure, My heart received thee with ...
SHE is standing by her loved one's side, A young and a fair and a gentle bride, But mournfulness hath ...
Two beautiful and rosy babes are pictured here alone, Two infants of a noble race, as any near the throne:-- ...
I.THOU! whose impassion'd face The Painter loves to trace, Theme of the Sculptor's art and Poet's story-- How many a ...
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 ...
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