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 Sadness (32 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, ...
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 ...
Napoleon (James Avis Bartley Poems)
INTRODUCTION.If ye will walk amid the ancient wood,Ye will perceive the lordly oak o'erspreadThe slender shrubs, and shield them from ...
Australia; Or The New Goldden Age (James Avis Bartley Poems)
In ancient days, in old, immortal Rome,Where virtues, surnamed Roman, had their home;When Virtue triumphed over Vice, and threwAcross their ...
Hours With Nature (James Avis Bartley Poems)
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 ...
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 ...
Love (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Of woman was I born, and man I am.I come to teach the greatest, yet the most meekOf all true ...
Criticus (James Avis Bartley Poems)
The Southern Muse--so long with drooping wing,--The Southern Muse, alas! too sad to sing--Her fair head drooped and dim her ...
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, ...
There Is A God (James Avis Bartley Poems)
The azure vault so far above,Arrayed in smiles of peace and love,Would sweetly seem the truth to prove-- "There is a ...
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 ...
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 ...
To Marian (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Dear Marian, thou art far away,And I'm disconsolate to-day, In sorrow sighing;My pleasant thoughts lie like the leaves,O'er whose cold heads ...
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 Holy Lady (James Avis Bartley Poems)
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 ...
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 ...
Lilly Lane (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Come to my calling, Lilly Lane,Like music falling, Come again.The earth is dreary, Sorrow's reign,My thoughts are weary, Come again.The flowers upspringing, Bring me pain,My ...
Yemen (James Avis Bartley Poems)
My soul has been wandering in Yemen, The land of the aloe and myrrh;Where the breezes that blow from the ocean, Brought ...
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 ...
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 ...
Hymn To The Father (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Heavenly father, God of mercy, Look upon a sinful soul;For, the waves of sad contrition, Now above me darkly roll.Ah! my crimes ...
Virginia Home Of Honor (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Oh, home of honor, native land, When roaming o'er the sea,The eye still turns, the heart still yearns, O dearest home, for ...
The Letter (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Amid a flower-strown cottage room, The Lady sat at even,Beneath the peerless evening star, Just peeping out in heaven;And, in her hands, ...
To One (James Avis Bartley Poems)
I love thee, and my trembling lyre Will learn no other strain;I marvel if thy gentle heart Will ever cease disdain;I marvel ...
Old Homestead (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Old homestead! old homestead! what feelings arise!As now the old homestead greets kindly our eyes;Old homestead, where oft we were ...
To Mary (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Now lovely Vesper shows her lamp, In yonder slowly darkening sky;It is the hour, when musing here, I heave for thee the ...
Oh, Love! The Dew Lies On The Flower (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Oh, love! the dew lies on the flower, And the stars gleam on the sea;It is the charm'd, the silent hour, When ...
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 ...