The Coronation Of Inez De Castro (Felicia Dorothea Hemans Poems)
There was music on the midnight;From a royal fane it roll'd,And a mighty bell, each pause between,Sternly and slowly toll'd.Strange ...
There was music on the midnight;From a royal fane it roll'd,And a mighty bell, each pause between,Sternly and slowly toll'd.Strange ...
The night-wind shook the tapestry round an ancient palace-room,And torches, as it rose and fell, waved thro' the gorgeous gloom,And ...
Thou'rt gone!–thou'rt slumb'ring low, With the sounding seas above thee; It is but a restless wo, But a ...
He sat in silence on the ground, The old and haughty Czar;Lonely, tho' princes girt him round, And leaders of ...
The Kaiser feasted in his hall, The red wine mantled high;Banners were trembling on the wall, To the peals of ...
Dark lowers our fate,And terrible the storm that gathers o'er us;But nothing, till that latest agonyWhich severs thee from nature, ...
Come near!—ere yet the dustSoil the bright paleness of the settled brow,Look on your brother, and embrace him now, ...
In sweet pride upon that insult keenShe smiled; then drooping mute and broken-hearted,To the cold comfort of the grave departed. ...
There were thick leaves above me and around, And low sweet sighs like those of childhood's sleep,Amidst their dimness, and ...
Warrior! whose image on thy tomb, With shield and crested head,Sleeps proudly in the purple gloom By the stain'd window ...
We saw thee, O stranger, and wept!We look'd for the youth of the sunny glance,Whose step was the fleetest in ...
What hid'st thou in thy treasure-caves and cells?Thou hollow-sounding and mysterious main!—Pale glistening pearls, and rainbow-colour'd shells,Bright things which gleam ...
The citron groves their fruit and flowers were strewing Around a Moorish palace, while the sigh Of low ...
THE hills all glow'd with a festive light,For the royal city rejoic'd by night:There were lamps hung forth upon tower ...
In the deep hour of dreams,Through the dark woods, and past the moaning sea,And by the star-light gleams,Mother of sorrows! ...
Birds, joyous birds of the wandering wing!Whence is it ye come with the flowers of spring?–"We come from the shores ...
Thou art no lingerer in monarch's hall,A joy thou art, and a wealth to all!A bearer of hope unto land ...
Thou thing of years departed! What ages have gone by,Since here the mournful seal was set By love and agony! ...
GO! trace th' unnumbered streams, o'er earth That wind their devious course, That draw from Alpine heights their birth, Deep ...
A monarch on his death-bed lay — Did censors waft perfume,And soft lamps pour their silvery ray, Thro' his proud ...
The sun comes forth; each mountain heightGlows with a tinge of rosy light,And flowers, that slumbered through the night, Their ...
WHEN the soft breath of Spring goes forthFar o'er the mountains of the North,How soon those wastes of dazzling snowWith ...
O thou breeze of spring!Gladdening sea and shore,Wake the woods to sing,Streams have felt the sighingOf thy scented wing,Let each ...
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