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 ...
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 ...
Round Sizergh's antique, massy walls,Full frequent swept the whistling blast;It sigh'd along the spacious halls,And through the tap'stried chambers past.The ...
SWEET Child of Sensibility!Haste thee from mirth and noise and folly,And o'er sad scenes of melancholy,Come, and muse, and mourn ...
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 ...
OH Sensibility, thou dangerous gift,Which, like Pandora's fabled box, containsCompounded good and ill, the fountain headAnd source whence flow the ...
IN life's gay morn, while undepress'd by grief,The heart quick vibrates to the sense of joy;And mounting vig'rous, yet uncheck'd ...
COME ye deep shades of night, that from the viewOf an unpitying world the wretched shroud,That give the harass'd limbs ...
OH! can there be on earth a lovelier sight,One that endears us more to human kind,Than a young groupe of ...
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 ...
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 ...
THOU spirit, lodg'd in tender breathing airsOf plaintive melancholy, soft and wild!Source of delight to every feeling heart,Long hast thou ...
HOPE, blest, and dearest gift of heaven,Thy smile can all our griefs assuage;To man by kind indulgence given,To cheer his ...
BUT few the Delian god inspiresWith genuine true poetic fires;But few who bear the poet's name,Shall share the lasting wreath ...
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 ...
O GENTLE Peace! celestial visitant!Thou friend to virtue, charity, and love,Whose smile can make a paradise on earth,Without whose presence ...
SHE comes, the poet's fav'rite theme,The pride of all the circling year;She comes, but tearful is her eye,No smiles upon ...
THAT sun which rose o'er Judah's land,On this auspicious day,Shall shine for ages yet to come,With never-setting ray.The Sun of ...
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