Pocahontas (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Where yonder moss-grown ruin lonely stands,Which from the James, the Pilgrim may survey,Stretch alway forth its old, forsaken handsAs if ...
James Avis Bartley Poems on Dreams (20 Poems)
The Princess Of Peru (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Far to the wilds of rich Peru,Gonzalo came--of pallid hue,Strange in these Western lands of night,Where nought, save woman's eyes, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Watoga (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Oh, think not that the polished breast, Only, can feel the fire of love,Pure as the flames that brightly rest In bosoms ...
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 ...
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 Wife To The Absent Husband (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Come back to me, my absent friend! Since thou wast far away,The vernal flowers have lost some charms, Less bright the vernal ...
The Dream Of Love (James Avis Bartley Poems)
I dreamed last night, my lady-love, A dear, delicious dream;'Twas not in bower or blooming grove, Nor by the sylvan stream.'Twas in ...
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 ...
Lilly: A Poem (James Avis Bartley Poems)
The May sun sheds an amber beam, Upon the river's liquid plain,But never to that glorious gleam, Her eyes will ope again:Sweet ...
Baby Song (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Rock'd on Mamma's heaving breast, Heaving like the pearly deep,Hugg'd to that sweet, honey rest, Sleep, little baby, sleep, Baby sleep.White like the ...
Serenade – II (James Avis Bartley Poems)
How sombre is the gloom! I see no beam of star,Gleam o'er the garden's bloom, Or silent wood afar;So dark the thoughts ...
The Face I See In Dreams (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Strangely sweet, and softly clear, With pure and starry beams,Reposing there, and moving here; The face I see in dreams.Oh! lovely is ...
The Enchanted Realm Of Joy (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Oh! I am sick of the ennui that comes of the earth,All tasteless its landscapes--and charmless its mirth.Away, swift away, ...
Lament (James Avis Bartley Poems)
My soul is sad--oh! dark to-night, 'Tis wrapt in midnight's gloom;Wild minstrel! seize thy harp and sing, As o'er the victor tomb.For ...
Susie (James Avis Bartley Poems)
A gentle maid, a dove-like soul, An eye that knows no ill;I met her from her rural walk, Upon yon grassy hill.Her ...
To Fannie (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Fair maid, in those beloved eyes, The dream of pensive beauty lies,The radiance when the day grows less, The charm of twilight ...