The Restoration Of The Works Of Art In Italy (Felicia Dorothea Hemans Poems)
LAND of departed fame! whose classic plains Have proudly echo'd to immortal strains; Whose hallow'd soil hath given the great ...
LAND of departed fame! whose classic plains Have proudly echo'd to immortal strains; Whose hallow'd soil hath given the great ...
'Midst Tivoli's luxuriant glades,Bright-foaming falls, and olive shades,Where dwelt, in days departed long,The sons of battle and of song,No tree, ...
'Among many nations was there no King like him.' -Nehemiah, xiii, 26. 'Know ye not that there is a ...
Voice of the gifted elder time!Voice of the charm and the Runic rhyme!Speak! from the shades and the depths disclose,How ...
No cloud to dim the splendour of the dayWhich breaks o'er Naples and her lovely bay,And lights that brilliant sea ...
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. ...
My child, my child, thou leav'st me!??"I shall hearThe gentle voice no more that blest mine earWith its first utterance; ...
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 ...
Green wave the oak for ever o'er thy rest, Thou that beneath its crowning foliage sleepest,And, in the stillness of ...
Dark lowers our fate,And terrible the storm that gathers o'er us;But nothing, till that latest agonyWhich severs thee from nature, ...
Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God. ~ Luke, xii, ...
Look on the white Alps round! If yet they gird a land Where freedom's voice and ...
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 ...
The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament showeth his handy-work.Psalm xix. 1. NO cloud obscures the summer ...
The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast, And the woods against a stormy sky Their giant ...
Rome, Rome! thou art no more As thou hast been!On thy seven hills of yore Thou satst a queen. Thou ...
GO! trace th' unnumbered streams, o'er earth That wind their devious course, That draw from Alpine heights their birth, Deep ...
I called on dreams and visions, to discloseThat which is veil'd from waking thought; conjuredEternity, as men constrain a ghostTo ...
A monarch on his death-bed lay — Did censors waft perfume,And soft lamps pour their silvery ray, Thro' his proud ...
Now autumn strews on every plain, His mellow fruits and fertile grain;And laughing plenty, crown'd with sheaves,With purple grapes, and ...
Answer me, burning stars of night,Where is the spirit gone, That past the reach of human sight,As a swift breeze ...
The stately homes of EnglandHow beautiful they stand!Amidst their tall ancestral trees,O'er all the pleasant land!The deer across their green ...
A BLESSING on thy head, thou child of many hopes and fears!A rainbow-welcome thine hath been, of mingled smiles and ...
How many blessed groups this hour are bending, Through England's primrose meadow-paths, their way Towards spire and tower, 'midst shadowy ...
The corn, in golden light, Waves o'er the plain;The sickle's gleam is bright; Full swells the grain.Now send ...
CALM on the bosom of thy God, Fair spirit, rest thee now!E'en while with ours thy footsteps trod, His seal ...
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