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 ...
Where yonder moss-grown ruin lonely stands,Which from the James, the Pilgrim may survey,Stretch alway forth its old, forsaken handsAs if ...
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, ...
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 ...
When smiling spring, an angel fair! Walks o'er the verdant plain,And breathes a soft and balmy air, From isles beyond the main:When ...
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 ...
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 ...
Two lovers in the strength of life, Had built a beauteous home,Where tall, ancestral oaks uprose, O'ershadowing their high dome.He was a ...
Give me thy heart, give me thy hand,Thy love, thy dower, thy goods, thy land;Give me o'er thee a free ...
Sweet maiden of the feeling soul, I saw thy little form,Arrayed in gay and glittering garb, And felt thy beauty's charm.And, Lora! ...
Come back to me, my absent friend! Since thou wast far away,The vernal flowers have lost some charms, Less bright the vernal ...
There comes a time for flowers to fade, and light to die in gloom,There is a time for mortal bliss ...
Now, Mary fair, the Spring has come, Back to our fairyland,And buds begin to breathe perfume, The breeze blows sweet and bland;The ...
Dear maid, with whom I, happy, wander'd back, To roam o'er that now sacred, hallow'd ground,Where Smith who trod old ocean's ...
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 ...
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 ...
I love thee--oh! I love thee, With fervor, deep and wild,Thy beauty's charm most strangely, My spirit hath beguiled.I love thee--oh! I ...
They do not--nay, they cannot die; They go to dwell in Heaven;Where God a free and full supply Of purest joys hath ...
Take back those pledges, dearest maid, Which once I warmly gave,For then I dreamed I would be free, And nevermore thy slave.Yes! ...
Oh, home of honor, native land, When roaming o'er the sea,The eye still turns, the heart still yearns, O dearest home, for ...
I love thee, and my trembling lyre Will learn no other strain;I marvel if thy gentle heart Will ever cease disdain;I marvel ...
To mountains hoar and russet plain,A joyous sprite, I come again;With many a sweet and joyous strain,And break grim winter's ...
O poet, would'st thou make a name That ne'er will die,But be coeval with the lights In yonder sky?Strike not a single, ...
The sleeper lies, with closed eyes, And softly moving breath,So soft, so still, her life's sweet thrill, 'Tis only more than death.Her ...
At dawn I rose from silent sleep, And heard a sky-lark singing,Amid the azure far and deep, Till all the arch was ...
Farewell, ye verdant hills and vales, Farewell thou rolling river,Whose waves flow onward to the sea, Returning, never, never.From all thy scenes, ...
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