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 (135 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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Lover (James Avis Bartley Poems)
SCENE I.--A WOODED MOUNTAIN IN BLOOM--TIMESUNRISE--ENTER LOVER SOLUS.This is my fair resort, the Summer SunIs rising there, the ocean gleams ...
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 ...
The Prophecy Of Columbia (James Avis Bartley Poems)
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 ...
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 ...
Watoga (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Oh, think not that the polished breast, Only, can feel the fire of love,Pure as the flames that brightly rest In bosoms ...
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 ...
Imagination (James Avis Bartley Poems)
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 ...
Poet’s Enchanted Life (James Avis Bartley Poems)
THE ANGEL-CHILD.A fairy land of grass and flowers, And of the greenest treesA land of singing brooks and springs, A land of ...
To Lizzie (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Oh, Lizzie, when I read your card, Which you had printed in the paper,Wherein you said your case was hard, My fancy ...
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, ...
An Hymn (James Avis Bartley Poems)
To him whose soul is locked and bolted fast, By lust and guilt against the entrance there,Of heavenly light; whose soul ...
The Lovers (James Avis Bartley Poems)
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 ...
The Heavenly Flower (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Now the final stroke is over! And the heart hath ceased its beat;And that form so palely beauteous, In a ghastly winding ...
You Told Me That You Loved Me (James Avis Bartley Poems)
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 ...
Virginia (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Thy soil, Virginia! is all hallowed ground, Made such by steps of patriots; thy high fame,Alway unto our ears, a glorious ...
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 Sabbath Worshipper (James Avis Bartley Poems)
'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 ...
Adieu To Emory (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Adieu to thee, Emory! adieu to thee now!There is grief in my spirit, there's gloom on my brow,I have left ...
Serenade – I (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Far o'er the landscape green, The moonlight like a lake,Lies; 'tis a lovely scene, To bid my lady wake; My lady, lady, wake, Wake, ...
To Lora Gordon Boon (James Avis Bartley Poems)
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! ...
A Song Of The Olden Time (James Avis Bartley Poems)
To-day my gay and happy heart, Was lost in pleasant dreaming;And I had won a loving part In all the by-gone's seeming.I ...
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 ...