Elfindale (James Avis Bartley Poems)
PART FIRST.Sweet Frankie lives in Elfindale;Where all the flowers are fair, and frail(Like her fair self,) a slender fairy,And like ...
James Avis Bartley Poems on Beauty (24 Poems)
The Lover (James Avis Bartley Poems)
SCENE I.--A WOODED MOUNTAIN IN BLOOM--TIMESUNRISE--ENTER LOVER SOLUS.This is my fair resort, the Summer SunIs rising there, the ocean gleams ...
The Angels Of Earth (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Angels of Earth! they soothe and bless The troubled soul of man,Bestow the most of happiness, They can.Angels of Earth--they are but ...
Blannerhassett’s Island (James Avis Bartley Poems)
On beautiful Ohio when you sail,And view its banks, forever green and fair,And feel the falling sunlight, and the galeThat ...
Imagination (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Now fir'd imagination soars on high, and showsMagnific scenes. The first--a summer's dawn--A sky of purest blue--a golden seaBeneath--earth bright ...
The Water (James Avis Bartley Poems)
The water, see it, leaps from the mountain's high brow, Like a roll of smooth silver, and laughingly nowSee, it skips, ...
The Heavenly Flower (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Now the final stroke is over! And the heart hath ceased its beat;And that form so palely beauteous, In a ghastly winding ...
To Bettie (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Give me thy heart, give me thy hand,Thy love, thy dower, thy goods, thy land;Give me o'er thee a free ...
Adieu To Emory (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Adieu to thee, Emory! adieu to thee now!There is grief in my spirit, there's gloom on my brow,I have left ...
A Song Of The Olden Time (James Avis Bartley Poems)
To-day my gay and happy heart, Was lost in pleasant dreaming;And I had won a loving part In all the by-gone's seeming.I ...
The Lost Pleiad (James Avis Bartley Poems)
No more with thy bright sisters of the sky, Who warble ever,Wilt thou send forth thy choral melody, Sad maid! for ever.No ...
The Thunder Storm (James Avis Bartley Poems)
'Twas a cloudless night in August, and the earth all silent lay,With hills, and glittering rivers and mountains far away,And ...
The Wintry Days (James Avis Bartley Poems)
The wintry days have come once more, The birds are still, the sweet flowers dead,And faint winds sigh a wailing song O'er ...
Melancholy (James Avis Bartley Poems)
There comes a time for flowers to fade, and light to die in gloom,There is a time for mortal bliss ...
The Spirit Of Poesy (James Avis Bartley Poems)
O! radiant spirit, bright Poesy, whereIs thy dwelling, thou seraph of beauty, so fairIn the rainbow thou laughest at sweet ...
Disappointment (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Last eve ere sleep had closed mine eyes, To me there came a dream,That when the saffron morn should rise O'er lovely ...
The Vow Of Love (James Avis Bartley Poems)
'Twas evening's hour of magic power, The sun went brightly down,And shadows fell as with a spell, Along the mountains brown.On high ...
You Ask Why I Am Lonely Now (James Avis Bartley Poems)
You ask why I am lonely now, In all this brilliant scene,And why I look on beauty's charms, With cold, unalter'd mien.You ...
An Incident (James Avis Bartley Poems)
The sighs of summer night, were sweet without,As the breath of spirits, on the folded roses,The sweet moon, like a ...
Love Song – I (James Avis Bartley Poems)
My heart is newly gushing, With love for thee, with love for thee,With thoughts as wild and wasteful, As yonder sea, as ...
The Wanderer (James Avis Bartley Poems)
With none to share my ship with me,A wand'rer o'er life's stormy sea,One brilliant star, like lamp of love,Smiles calmly ...
On —- (James Avis Bartley Poems)
A brainless beauty, a would-be coquette,A brow of marble, but a heart of jet;An eye that shows no vestige of ...
Love Without Hope (James Avis Bartley Poems)
I cannot cease to love thee, Coldest fair!Though pleading cannot move thee, And I despair.Thy beauty was diviner, Than the summer moon,And thou ...
Sabbath (James Avis Bartley Poems)
The Sabbath morn! How beautiful, How peaceful and how blest;An Angel's whisper seems to lull The weary world to rest.Hark! how the ...