The Abencerrage : Canto II. (Felicia Dorothea Hemans Poems)
Fair land! of chivalry the old domain,Land of the vine and olive, lovely Spain!Though not for thee with classic shores ...
Fair land! of chivalry the old domain,Land of the vine and olive, lovely Spain!Though not for thee with classic shores ...
Lonely and still are now thy marble halls,Thou fair Alhambra! there the feast is o'er;And with the murmur of thy ...
LAND of departed fame! whose classic plains Have proudly echo'd to immortal strains; Whose hallow'd soil hath given the great ...
Heroes of elder days! untaught to yield,Who bled for Spain on many an ancient field;Ye, that around the oaken cross ...
Courage was cast about her like a dressOf solemn comeliness,A gathered mind and an untroubled faceDid give her dangers grace. ...
'Among many nations was there no King like him.' -Nehemiah, xiii, 26. 'Know ye not that there is a ...
…….."This is to be a mortal,And seek the things beyond mortality!" ~ Manfred.Thy voice prevails — dear friend, my gentle ...
Fear! I'm a Greek, and how should I fear death?A slave, and wherefore should I dread my freedom?I will not ...
No cloud to dim the splendour of the dayWhich breaks o'er Naples and her lovely bay,And lights that brilliant sea ...
……………….SometimesThe young forgot the lessons they had learnt,And lov'd when they should hate, like thee, Imelda! ~ Italy, a PoemPassa ...
In Genoa, when the sunset gaveIts last warm purple to the wave,No sound of war, no voice of fear,Was heard, ...
Nor look nor tone revealeth aughtSave woman's quietness of thought;And yet around her is a lightOf inward majesty and might. ...
To die for what we love! Oh! there is powerIn the true heart, and pride, and joy, for this;It is ...
The Troubadour o'er many a plainHath roamed unwearied, but in vain.O'er many a rugged mountain-scene And forest wild his track ...
A sound of woe in Salem! — mournful criesRose from her dwellings — youthful cheeks were pale,Tears flowing fast from ...
Wildly and mournfully the Indian drum On the deep hush of moonlight forests broke;"Sing us a death-song, for thine hour ...
Thou'rt gone!–thou'rt slumb'ring low, With the sounding seas above thee; It is but a restless wo, But a ...
Dark lowers our fate,And terrible the storm that gathers o'er us;But nothing, till that latest agonyWhich severs thee from nature, ...
And slight, withal, may be the things which bringBack on the heart the weight which it would fling Aside for ...
These birds of Paradise but long to fleeBack to their native mansion. ~ Prophecy of Dante A Requiem! and ...
Thou shalt lie downWith patriarchs of the infant world with kings,The powerful of the earth the wise the good,Fair forms, ...
I stood beside thy lowly grave; Spring-odours breath'd around, And music, in the river-wave, Pass'd with a lulling ...
My father's house once more,In its own moonlight beauty! yet around,Something, amidst the dewy calm profound,Broods, never marked before!Is it ...
In the deep hour of dreams,Through the dark woods, and past the moaning sea,And by the star-light gleams,Mother of sorrows! ...
The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast, And the woods against a stormy sky Their giant ...
The sea-bird's wing, o'er ocean's breast Shoots like a glancing star,While the red radiance of the west Spreads kindling fast ...
Ask'st thou my home?—my pathway wouldst thou know,When from thine eye my floating shadow pass'd?Was not my work fulfill'd and ...
Thou sleepest but when wilt thou wake, fair child?When the fawn awakes in the forest wild?When the lark's wing mounts ...
A BLESSING on thy head, thou child of many hopes and fears!A rainbow-welcome thine hath been, of mingled smiles and ...
Mark vi. 47-51.Fear was within the tossing bark, When stormy winds grew loud;And waves came rolling high and dark, And ...
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