Lines Adressed To A Young Friend, During A Visit At The Sea Coast (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
SWEET girl! affection's pleading voice attend,And hear the tender counsels of a friend;By friendship's pen impress'd, these lines receive,And tho' ...
Elizabeth Bath Poems on Joy & Excitement (22 Poems)
Address To Solitude (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
THOU tranquil friend! to thee I'll fly, When foes my peace invade;With thee shall ev'ry care subside, Nor ...
An Effusion (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
AS early o'er the dewy lawn I took my pensive way;The brilliants of the opening morn Adorn'd each ...
False Friendship Delineated (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
HE never yet consulted friendship's laws,Who would not suffer in her glorious cause;Who would not sacrifice the proffer'd gain,But let ...
On Death (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
THERE is a king which all the world must own,From him who begs to him who fills the throne;There is ...
On The Fading Enjoyments Of Time (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
ALTHO' to man's aspiring pride, It may appear degrading;Yet look on all the world around,And say what ...
A Fragment (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
FANCY shall fix my lone abode, Where human foot ne'er trod;Peace shall surround my humble cot,For ever ...
Written At Close Of Day (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
WAKED to reflection at this solemn hour, When day retiring leaves the mind to tread ...
To Religion (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
RISE sacred dawn of everlasting day,And guide my spirit on its heavenward way.At thy approach the shades of night retire,We ...
On The Aeolian Harp (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
METHINKS I hear the band of saints above, In holy anthem join'd, their voices raise,Tuning their golden harps to ...
Addressed To A Friend (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
IF , when far distant, memory should pourtrayThe sweet enjoyments of a former day;If she should reign and by her ...
To The Bee (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
HAIL harbinger of spring! Already on the wing,Humming thy lengthen'd notes along the vale; ...
To Disappointment (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
RELENTLESS foe to human peace, Why fix thy dwelling here?Why triumph o'er the wounded heart, And force the ...
Written By Moonlight (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
SILVER Empress of the night,Smiling Cynthia chaste and bright,Listen to my artless lays,While I bless thy friendly rays.Solemn grandeur gilds ...
To Memory (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
Written after the departure of a Friend with her Infant. HAIL , sov'reign Memory, hail! I court thy pow'r,I love ...
To The Memory Of A Much Loved Sister (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
DARK is the hour inscrib'd on memory's page, Too often drawn from sad affliction's store;Of future sorrows the too ...
To Sensibility (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
SOFT Sensibility! subduing power,Thy thorns are wounding while I pluck the flower;Thy influence all unseen, beyond controul,Rouses each finer feeling ...
Imagination’s Picture (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
TAKE the landscape and beholdWaving forests ting'd with gold,Rosy health with ruddy glow,Seated on the mountain's brow;Or upon its steep ...
On Poverty (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
DARK is the cloud which hov'ring o'er the mind,Shades the bright promises of early youth;Nips all its blossoms, blights the ...
An Estimate Of The Pleasures Of Life (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
WHAT are all our promis'd pleasures, But the dew drops of the morn;Little, trembling, glittering treasures, Transient gems ...
The Retrospect (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
PLEASANT it was when evening's soothing calm Invited us to loiter on the green, ...
Sonnet VIII (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
E'EN winter has its charmstho' his keen blastSeals all creationtho' his driving snowsLevel her surface, and in feather'd garbCloathe the ...