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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Southern Muse--so long with drooping wing,--The Southern Muse, alas! too sad to sing--Her fair head drooped and dim her ...
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, see it, leaps from the mountain's high brow, Like a roll of smooth silver, and laughingly nowSee, it skips, ...
To him whose soul is locked and bolted fast, By lust and guilt against the entrance there,Of heavenly light; whose soul ...
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 ...
Now the final stroke is over! And the heart hath ceased its beat;And that form so palely beauteous, In a ghastly winding ...
Adieu to thee, Emory! adieu to thee now!There is grief in my spirit, there's gloom on my brow,I have left ...
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 ...
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 ...
Hail, beauteous maiden, gentle spring! I see thee slowly move,On lowering wings, on yon green hill From yon blue fields above.Hail, beauteous ...
O! radiant spirit, bright Poesy, whereIs thy dwelling, thou seraph of beauty, so fairIn the rainbow thou laughest at sweet ...
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 ...
The Summer's sunset throws a tender spell,Along the hills, o'er ocean's softened swell;The God of day goes flaming down the ...
To mountains hoar and russet plain,A joyous sprite, I come again;With many a sweet and joyous strain,And break grim winter's ...
The sky to me did never speak, The sea rolled ever dumb,--Of him beneath whose wondrous power, Their mystic forms had come.The ...
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 flowers! the flowers! I love ye, flowers; Ye have a mystic voiceTo speak unto my inmost soul And make my heart ...
O freedom's home! thy banner streams, A meteor on the gale;And I behold the haughty flags Of Europe fade and pale.And, crowding ...
Near yonder banks at even, We whispered words most dear,Till love's sweet star in Heaven, Was shining, bright and clear.We saw the ...
Amid the tempest, wild and dark, Upon Life's troubled sea;One only star illumes the scene, With heavenly brilliancy.Oh! sweetly o'er the howling ...
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