The Pictures Of Memory (Isabella Lickbarrow Poems)
LIKE fairy groupes beneath the forest shade,With moonlight faintly scatter'd o'er the scene,In long perspective stretching to the view,The shadowy ...
LIKE fairy groupes beneath the forest shade,With moonlight faintly scatter'd o'er the scene,In long perspective stretching to the view,The shadowy ...
ON Kilda's rock a man of pensive mien,Sat thoughtful, gazing on the restless deep,And as he mark'd with what a ...
Favour'd of heav'n, awhile my speech attend:On brighter visions now unclose thine eyes,Again shall Europe's realms before thee rise.Of this ...
OH Solitude! thou visionary power,If e'er thou hadst a "local habitation,"This is the place, and here must be thy throne:The ...
KIND shepherd! if thy hoary locks,Bespeaking venerable age,May trust and confidence inspire,Oh! wilt thou, with thy counsel sage,Assist a sad ...
WRITTEN AT THE REQUEST OF A FRIEND.ALCANOR bids me hail the welcome morn,Seven times return'd, since, when in youthful pride,While ...
FAME, and honour, wealth, and friendship,All are objects of desire,Frequent sought with ceaseless trouble,All can ardent hopes inspire.Fame is but ...
OH Sensibility, thou dangerous gift,Which, like Pandora's fabled box, containsCompounded good and ill, the fountain headAnd source whence flow the ...
COME ye deep shades of night, that from the viewOf an unpitying world the wretched shroud,That give the harass'd limbs ...
ALAS my friend, how quickly pleasure flies!Life's brightest hours the swiftest fade away:Hope's distant prospects glad our longing eyes;We reach ...
He will not sleep: by Moscow's lurid glareOf fiery columns darting to the skies-By her sad widows' wail and orphans ...
YON sun, who runs his annual courseAbout earth's varied bound,While slow revolving seasons roll,Their never-ceasing round-Yon rising sun, whose early ...
ONCE more the swift wheels of old Time's rapid chariotHave hastily roll'd months and seasons away;Once more we take leave ...
A PHILOSOPHIC maid, with tranquil mind,Life's gayer scenes and youth's fond hopes resign'd,Left Piercefield's lov'd retreats, from childhood dear,And came ...
HOPE, blest, and dearest gift of heaven,Thy smile can all our griefs assuage;To man by kind indulgence given,To cheer his ...
BELOV'D companion of my early years!My friend in solitude, my secret joy!Dear were the soothing whispers of thy voice,Dear were ...
COME thou sweet Muse my lay inspire,That wak'st to pensive strains the lyre,Come thy mournful numbers pour;Oh be thy notes ...
THOU dear delightful vale adieu!Sweet spot, from early years belov'd,Enraptur'd still thy charms I view,Nor leave thee with a heart ...
SWEET Cumbrian Bard, esteem'd and honour'd long,In youth belov'd respected in thy age,Thine is each title to mankind endear'd,The social ...
WILL you, my absent friend, acceptThe tribute of a Muse sincere?This simple chaplet she has woveTo grace for you the ...
OH! happy lone retreat!Where my forefathers sleep;Though the rough surging billows beatAgainst thy woody steep,Peace dwells for ever there,Beneath thy ...
MY Henry! ah why would'st thou leave me behind thee,And cross the wide waves of the ocean alone,This sweet little ...
PEACEFUL as thy gentle spirit,May thy lot in life still be;And may heav'n its choicest blessings,Shower through future years on ...
WILL aught but death the ties of nature break;Will death alone divide united hearts;Will friendship's bonds all other power defy,Sever'd ...
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