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 ...
Oh, think not that the polished breast, Only, can feel the fire of love,Pure as the flames that brightly rest In bosoms ...
The azure vault so far above,Arrayed in smiles of peace and love,Would sweetly seem the truth to prove-- "There is a ...
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! ...
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 ...
Beneath those stars of summer, I told thee my wild love;And I beheld thy blushes, And saw thy bosom move.It was a ...
What bids the soul of man to gaze, Upon a spot of earth,As a sun of focal rays? The spell of human ...
Ah! now I am beloved by him, And sweet it is, to think,That life no more will be so dim, To make ...
A brainless beauty, a would-be coquette,A brow of marble, but a heart of jet;An eye that shows no vestige of ...
I loved thee in my happy youth, When I was free from guile,And I have kept that early truth, And wear as ...
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