Paraphrases From David’s Psalms (Emma Lyon Poems)
Paraphrased From David's Psalms. Psalm XIX.THE arched heavens ere since the birth of timeInstruct the earth, in characters sublime, ...
Emma Lyon Poems on Mind (17 Poems)
Lines To D. F*****, Esq. Barrister (Emma Lyon Poems)
IS there on earth a charm more firmly binds,Than gentle gratitude congenial minds?That Goddess now, at whose soft shrine I ...
Stanzas To The Moon (Emma Lyon Poems)
TO thee, bright Orb, my humid eyes I raise; To thee I sigh, reflecting as I gaze,How dark earth's ...
Lines: Written to my Sister during her Passage to the West Indies (Emma Lyon Poems)
MY soul with joyful gratitude surveys The cheerful sun each day more splendid rise!The softest breezes fan me as ...
Conclusion (Emma Lyon Poems)
Descend , O Muse, With More Than Wonted Fire,Ere Deadly Silence Steals Upon My Lyre; Come, Let The Solemn ...
Lines Addressed To The University Of Cambridge (Emma Lyon Poems)
AS late the Muse in silent hour I sought,And chanc'd to rove the various field of thought,Where many a trifle ...
The Maniac, A Song (Emma Lyon Poems)
BEHOLD yonder Maniac! how swiftly she flies, O'er hills, and o'er mountains, still deep'ning her sighs,She laughs at the ...
The Maniac A Song (Emma Lyon Poems)
BEHOLD yonder Maniac! how swiftly she flies, O'er hills, and o'er mountains, still deep'ning her sighs,She laughs at the ...
An Ode On Anger (Emma Lyon Poems)
WHO shall paint Anger in his furious form? The gloomy frown, the flashing of the storm,The violence that overleaps ...
The Flights Of Fancy (Emma Lyon Poems)
HAIL , Fancy, hail! ungovernable pow'r, And tell my bosom how thy mimic art,Out-trav'lling time, can in one fleeting ...
An Ode On Ambition (Emma Lyon Poems)
HOW glorious the breast that in life's early morn, Ambition! enkindles thy flame;Who pants for thy trophies, and longs ...
Ode To Sleep (Emma Lyon Poems)
SWEET Sleep! that unsolicited to all, In night's dark robe descending from the sky,Soft as the dews upon the ...
Ode on the Fear of Criticism (Emma Lyon Poems)
OH ! where amid this dreary scene Of enmity and strife,Unvex'd with many a thorn between, Can spring ...
An Ode To Suspicion (Emma Lyon Poems)
SUSPICION ! Demon of the twilight hour, Silent, dark brooding in the wav'ring mind,That dost our peace with length'ning ...
Lines On Friendship. Addressed To Miss F. B***** (Emma Lyon Poems)
WHILE Friendship, Frances! spreads my Muse's wing,Dwells on thy virtues, and allures to sing,If these weak hands could touch the ...
Ode on Beauty (Emma Lyon Poems)
MUST beauty reign with tyrant sway, And every nobler prize excel;Eclipsing with her transient ray, The bosom where ...
An Ode On Solitude (Emma Lyon Poems)
HAIL , Solitude! whose silent sphereIs music to th' harmonious ear.O! waft me from the realms of pride,And let me ...