Sonnet. “But to be still! oh, but to cease awhile” (Frances Anne Kemble Poems)
But to be still! oh, but to cease awhile The panting breath and hurrying steps of life, The ...
But to be still! oh, but to cease awhile The panting breath and hurrying steps of life, The ...
Have you not heard that in some deep-seal'd graves, The Dead retain in beauty undisturb'd The very countenance ...
Weep'st thou to see the ruin and decay Which Time doth wreak upon earth's mighty things? Temples of ...
Oh, serious eyes! how is it that the light, The burning rays, that mine pour into ye, Still ...
Triumph not, fools! and weep not, ye faint-hearted! Have ye believed that the supreme decree Of Heaven had ...
Blaspheme not thou thy sacred life, nor turn O'er joys that God hath for a season lent, Perchance ...
When 'twas my hap to meet you, for awhile Our paths together lay-and each one brought Heart to ...
Like one who walketh in a plenteous land, By flowing waters, under shady trees, Through sunny meadows, where ...
Blame not my tears, love, to you has been given The brightest, best gift, God to mortals allows; The sunlight ...
Beside a well-reap'd field at Eventide, One laid him down to rest who'd wandered far, And fought and ...
If thou wert standing by yon tide, And I were standing by thy side, Methinks a death I ...
Struggle not with thy life!-the heavy doom Resist not, it will bow thee like a slave: Strive not! ...
O Lesbian! if thy faith were mine, Then might I in that summer sea Seek for a slumber ...
Sorrow and sin, and suffering and strife, Have been cast in the waters of my life; And they ...
Written among the Ruins of the Sonnenberg Thou who within thyself dost not behold Ruins as great as ...
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