The Ball-Room Belle. (George Pope Morris Poems)
The moon and all her starry train Were fading from the morning sky,When home the ball-room belle againReturned, with throbbing pulse ...
The moon and all her starry train Were fading from the morning sky,When home the ball-room belle againReturned, with throbbing pulse ...
To meet, and part, as we have met and parted, One moment cherished and the next forgot,To wear a smile when ...
In the days that are gone, by this sweet-flowing water, Two lovers reclined in the shade of a tree;She was the ...
Deliver us from evil, Heavenly Father! It still besets us wheresoe'er we go!Bid the bright rays of revelation gather To light the ...
Before the BattleThe clarion call of liberty Rings on the startled gales!The rising hills reverberate The rising of the vales!Through all the ...
The wind-harp has music it moans to the tree,And so has the shell that complains to the sea,The lark that ...
Some love to stroll where the wassail-bowl And the wine-cups circle free;None of that band shall win my hand: No! a sober ...
Thank God for pleasant weather! Chant it, merry rills!And clap your hands together, Ye exulting hills!Thank Him, teeming valley! Thank Him, fruitful plain!For ...
My lady waits!--'Tis now the hour When morn unbars her gates!--My vessel glides beneath the tower Where now my lady waits.Her signal ...
Thou hast woven the spell that hath bound me, Through all the sad changes of years;And the smiles that I wore ...
The sword of the hero! The staff of the sage!Whose valor and wisdom Are stamped on the age!Time-hallowed mementos Of those who have ...
Come, come to me, love! Come, love!--AriseAnd shame the bright stars With the light of thine eyes;Look out from thy lattice-- Oh, lady-bird, ...
My heart I gave you with my hand, In brighter days than these,In that down-trodden father-land Beyond the distant seas,Where you were ...
Wealth sought the bower of Beauty,Dressed like a modern beau:Just then Love, Health, and DutyTook up their hats to go.Wealth ...
Old Nick, who taught the village-school, Wedded a maid of homespun habit;He was as stubborn as a mule, She was as playful ...
Oh, this love--this love! I ainse the passion slighted;But hearts that truly love, Must break or be united. Oh, this love!When first he ...
A merry life does the hunter lead! He wakes with the dawn of day;He whistles his dog--he mounts his steed, And scuds ...
My lady hath as soft a handAs any queen in fairy-land;And, hidden in her tiny boot,As dainty and as light ...
As streams at morn, from seas that glide, Rejoicing on their sparkling way,Will turn again at eventide, To mingle with their kindred ...
I never could find a good reason Why sorrow unbidden should stay,And all the bright joys of life's season Be driven unheeded ...
I love the night when the moon streams bright On flowers that drink the dew--When cascades shout as the stars peep ...
He died, as he had lived, beloved, Without an enemy on earth;In word and deed he breathed and moved The soul of ...
Lady of England--o'er the seasThy name was borne on every breeze,Till all this sunset clime becameFamiliar with Victoria's name.Though seas ...
Our Order, like the ark of yore, Upon the raging sea was tossed;Secure amid the billow's roar, It moved, and nothing has ...
Love left one day his leafy bower, And roamed in sportive vein,Where Vanity had built a tower, For Fashion's sparkling train.The mistress ...
Oh, think of me, my own beloved, Whatever cares beset thee!And when thou hast the falsehood proved, Of those with smiles who ...
Jeannie Marsh of Cherry Valley,At whose call the muses rally; Of all the nine none so divineAs Jeannie Marsh of Cherry ...
Near the banks of that lone river, Where the water-lilies grow,Breathed the fairest flower that ever Bloomed and faded years ago.Now we ...
The morning is breaking-- The stag is away!The hounds and the hunters The signal obey!The horn bids the echoes Awake as we go,And ...
The star of love now shines above, Cool zephyrs crisp the sea;Among the leaves the wind-harp weaves Its serenade for thee.The star, ...
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