The Sinless Child Part 6 (Elizabeth Oakes Smith Poems)
'Tis the summer prime, when the noiseless airIn perfumed chalice lies,And the bee goes by with a lazy hum,Beneath the ...
'Tis the summer prime, when the noiseless airIn perfumed chalice lies,And the bee goes by with a lazy hum,Beneath the ...
The loud winds rattled at the door-The shutters creaked and shook,While Eva, by the cottage hearth,Sat with abstracted look.With every ...
Untiring all the weary dayThe widow toiled with care,And scarcely cleared her furrowed browWhen came the hour of prayer;The voices, ...
As years passed on, no wonder, eachAn inward grace revealed;For where the soul is peace and love,It may not be ...
AN acorn fell from an old oak tree,And lay on the frosty ground"O, what shall the fate of the acorn ...
Then trim the lights, my strange, strange child,And let the fagots glow;For more of these mysterious thingsI fear, yet long, ...
Whilom ago, in lowly life,Young Eva lived and smiled,A fair-haired girl, of wondrous truth,And blameless from a child.Gentle she was, ...
'Twas night-bright beamed the silver moon,And all the stars were dim;The widow heard within the dellSweet voices of a hymn,As ...
Alone, yet not alone, the heart doth broodWith a sad fondness o'er its hidden grief;Broods with a miiser's joy, wherein ...
Thou poet-painter, preacher of great truth,Far more suggestive thine than written tomeLo, we return with thee to that vast dome,Dim ...
A simple thing, yet chancing as it did,When life was bright with its illusive dreams,A pledge and promise seemed beneath ...
And is this life? and are we born for this?To follow phantoms that elude the grasp,Or whatso'er's secured, within our ...
Still onward goes the barque- the tideBears it along where breakers foam and roar,And oaks unbending, riven, line the shore;Dense ...
It cannot be, the baffled heart, in vain,May seek, amid the crowd, its throbs to hide;Ten thousand others kindred pangs ...
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