The Messenger-Bi (Felicia Dorothea Hemans Poems)
Thou art come from the spirits' land, thou bird! Thou art come from the spirits' land!Through the dark pine-grove ...
Thou art come from the spirits' land, thou bird! Thou art come from the spirits' land!Through the dark pine-grove ...
The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament showeth his handy-work.Psalm xix. 1. NO cloud obscures the summer ...
Thine is a strain to read among the hills, The old and full of voices;??"by the source Of some free ...
If it be sad to speak of treasures gone, Of sainted genius call'd too soon away,Of light, from this world ...
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 ...
I come, I come! ye have called me long;I come o'er the mountains, with light and song.Ye may trace my ...
GO! trace th' unnumbered streams, o'er earth That wind their devious course, That draw from Alpine heights their birth, Deep ...
A song for the death-day of the brave A song of pride!The youth went down to a hero's grave, ...
The bark that held a prince went down, The sweeping waves roll'd on;And what was England's glorious crown ...
SUBLIME is thy prospect, thou proud-rolling Ocean, And Fancy surveys thee with solemn delight;When thy mountainous billows are wild ...
I called on dreams and visions, to discloseThat which is veil'd from waking thought; conjuredEternity, as men constrain a ghostTo ...
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 ...
They grew in beauty, side by side, They fill'd one home with glee;Their graves are sever'd, far and wide, By ...
WHEN twilight's grey and pensive hourBrings the low breeze, and shuts the flower, And bids the solitary star Shine in ...
A monarch on his death-bed lay — Did censors waft perfume,And soft lamps pour their silvery ray, Thro' his proud ...
Praise ye the Lord. Praise ye the Lord from the heavens: praise him in the heights. PRAISE ye the Lord! ...
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 ...
Eagle! this is not thy sphere!Warrior-bird, what seek'st thou here?Wherefore by the fountain's brinkDoth thy royal pinion sink?Wherefore on the ...
Now autumn strews on every plain, His mellow fruits and fertile grain;And laughing plenty, crown'd with sheaves,With purple grapes, and ...
OH! blest art thou, whose steps may roveThrough the green paths of vale and grove,Or, leaving all their charms below, ...
Answer me, burning stars of night,Where is the spirit gone, That past the reach of human sight,As a swift breeze ...
Thou sleepest but when wilt thou wake, fair child?When the fawn awakes in the forest wild?When the lark's wing mounts ...
The stately homes of EnglandHow beautiful they stand!Amidst their tall ancestral trees,O'er all the pleasant land!The deer across their green ...
The sun comes forth; each mountain heightGlows with a tinge of rosy light,And flowers, that slumbered through the night, Their ...
A BLESSING on thy head, thou child of many hopes and fears!A rainbow-welcome thine hath been, of mingled smiles and ...
WHEN the soft breath of Spring goes forthFar o'er the mountains of the North,How soon those wastes of dazzling snowWith ...
Mark vi. 47-51.Fear was within the tossing bark, When stormy winds grew loud;And waves came rolling high and dark, And ...
Child, amidst the flowers at play,While the red light fades away;Mother, with thine earnest eye,Ever following silently;Father, by the breeze ...
Of life's past woes, the fading traceHath given that aged patriarch's faceExpression, holy, deep, resign'd, The calm sublimity of mind.Years ...
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