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, ...
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, ...
INTRODUCTION.If ye will walk amid the ancient wood,Ye will perceive the lordly oak o'erspreadThe slender shrubs, and shield them from ...
PART FIRST.Sweet Frankie lives in Elfindale;Where all the flowers are fair, and frail(Like her fair self,) a slender fairy,And like ...
SCENE I.--A WOODED MOUNTAIN IN BLOOM--TIMESUNRISE--ENTER LOVER SOLUS.This is my fair resort, the Summer SunIs rising there, the ocean gleams ...
In ancient days, in old, immortal Rome,Where virtues, surnamed Roman, had their home;When Virtue triumphed over Vice, and threwAcross their ...
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 ...
The sun descends along the glowing west,His bright rays quivering o'er Potomac's breast--And still he flashes, with his parting smile,And ...
On beautiful Ohio when you sail,And view its banks, forever green and fair,And feel the falling sunlight, and the galeThat ...
Oh, think not that the polished breast, Only, can feel the fire of love,Pure as the flames that brightly rest In bosoms ...
Of woman was I born, and man I am.I come to teach the greatest, yet the most meekOf all true ...
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 ANGEL-CHILD.A fairy land of grass and flowers, And of the greenest treesA land of singing brooks and springs, A land of ...
The water, see it, leaps from the mountain's high brow, Like a roll of smooth silver, and laughingly nowSee, it skips, ...
Now the final stroke is over! And the heart hath ceased its beat;And that form so palely beauteous, In a ghastly winding ...
When summer's rosy twilight fell,Upon yon river's gentle swell,Leading the spirit by its song,As through the land it sweeps along;We ...
Give me thy heart, give me thy hand,Thy love, thy dower, thy goods, thy land;Give me o'er thee a free ...
'Twas Sabbath morn. A holy light Hung o'er the hill and wood,O'er wooded stream, and lofty height, And mighty solitude.All Nature lay ...
No more with thy bright sisters of the sky, Who warble ever,Wilt thou send forth thy choral melody, Sad maid! for ever.No ...
'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 have come once more, The birds are still, the sweet flowers dead,And faint winds sigh a wailing song O'er ...
Oh, Heaven hath given to earth some souls, Of rarest loveliness,Whose being's constant current rolls, The wretched still to bless.Well wishing Heaven ...
Farewell to the land which we sought o'er the wave;We made it our home; it will now be our grave:Farewell, ...
O! radiant spirit, bright Poesy, whereIs thy dwelling, thou seraph of beauty, so fairIn the rainbow thou laughest at sweet ...
Hark! the organ's solemn peal Ascends the lofty fane,To win the soul's repeal, From everlasting pain:To waft the voice of praise To Him ...
Hast thou come back, my Shakspeare! bard, Who didst dethrone and drive away those others,From cold Parnassus, fate that seem'd too ...
Beneath those stars of summer, I told thee my wild love;And I beheld thy blushes, And saw thy bosom move.It was a ...
Oh! Love's the sweetest joy of earth, Love's keenest pang is bliss,And, like a wild, delirious bee, We hang upon a kiss:With ...
My soul has been wandering in Yemen, The land of the aloe and myrrh;Where the breezes that blow from the ocean, Brought ...
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 ...
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 ...
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