Swiss Song, On The Anniversary Of An Ancient Battle (Felicia Dorothea Hemans Poems)
Look on the white Alps round! If yet they gird a land Where freedom's voice and ...
Look on the white Alps round! If yet they gird a land Where freedom's voice and ...
She stood upon the loftiest peak,Amidst the clear blue sky, A bitter smile ...
From the bright stars, or from the viewless air,Or from some world unreached by human thought,Spirit, sweet spirit! if thy ...
Why wouldst thou leave me, oh! gentle child?Thy home on the mountain is bleak and wild,A straw-roof'd cabin, with lowly ...
It wav'd not thro' an Eastern sky,Beside a fount of Araby;It was not fann'd by southern breezeIn some green isle ...
Thy heart is in the upper world, where fleet the chamois bounds;Thy heart is where the mountain-fir shakes to the ...
Warrior! whose image on thy tomb, With shield and crested head,Sleeps proudly in the purple gloom By the stain'd window ...
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 ...
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 ...
Where hath not a woman stood, Strong in affection's might? a reed, upborne By an o'er mastering current! ...
Sleep 'midst thy banners furl'd!Yes! thou art there, upon thy buckler lying,With the soft wind unfelt around thee sighing,Thou chief ...
Thy rest was deep at the slumberer's hour If thou didst not hear the blastOf the savage horn, from ...
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 citron groves their fruit and flowers were strewing Around a Moorish palace, while the sigh Of low ...
THRONE of expression! whence the spirit's rayPours forth so oft the light of mental day,Where fancy's fire, affection's melting beam,Thought, ...
There blend the ties that strengthen Our hearts in hours of grief,The silver links that lengthen Joy's visits when most ...
Fount of the woods! thou art hid no more,From Heaven's clear eye, as in time of yore!For the roof hath ...
THE hills all glow'd with a festive light,For the royal city rejoic'd by night:There were lamps hung forth upon tower ...
I LAY on that rock where the storms have their dwelling, The birthplace of phantoms, the home of the ...
Tho' youth may boast the curls that flow,In sunny waves of auburn glow;As graceful on thy hoary head,Has time the ...
In the deep hour of dreams,Through the dark woods, and past the moaning sea,And by the star-light gleams,Mother of sorrows! ...
Go forth, for she is gone!With the golden light of her wavy hair,She is gone to the fields of the ...
Thou art no lingerer in monarch's hall,A joy thou art, and a wealth to all!A bearer of hope unto land ...
I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me ...
Birds, joyous birds of the wandering wing!Whence is it ye come with the flowers of spring?–"We come from the shores ...
Thou thing of years departed! What ages have gone by,Since here the mournful seal was set By love and agony! ...
The prisoned thrush may brook the cage,The captive eagle dies for rage. Lady of the Lake. 'Twas a trumpet's pealing ...
DEEP, fiery clouds o'ercast the sky, Dead stillness reigns in air, There is not e'en a breeze, on high The ...
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