The Thunder Storm (James Avis Bartley Poems)
'Twas a cloudless night in August, and the earth all silent lay,With hills, and glittering rivers and mountains far away,And ...
James Avis Bartley Poems (135 Poems)
The Wintry Days (James Avis Bartley Poems)
The wintry days have come once more, The birds are still, the sweet flowers dead,And faint winds sigh a wailing song O'er ...
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 ...
Milly (James Avis Bartley Poems)
A fairy thing was Milly when She blest my wondering sight;I ne'er shall meet her match again-- A maid so gaily bright.Her ...
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 Dream Of Love (James Avis Bartley Poems)
I dreamed last night, my lady-love, A dear, delicious dream;'Twas not in bower or blooming grove, Nor by the sylvan stream.'Twas in ...
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 ...
The Song Of The Slain At The Battle Of Ticonderoga (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Farewell to the land which we sought o'er the wave;We made it our home; it will now be our grave:Farewell, ...
To Spring (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Hail, beauteous maiden, gentle spring! I see thee slowly move,On lowering wings, on yon green hill From yon blue fields above.Hail, beauteous ...
The Spirit Of Poesy (James Avis Bartley Poems)
O! radiant spirit, bright Poesy, whereIs thy dwelling, thou seraph of beauty, so fairIn the rainbow thou laughest at sweet ...
Sin Of The Choral Singer (James Avis Bartley Poems)
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 ...
Spring (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Now, Mary fair, the Spring has come, Back to our fairyland,And buds begin to breathe perfume, The breeze blows sweet and bland;The ...
Disappointment (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Last eve ere sleep had closed mine eyes, To me there came a dream,That when the saffron morn should rise O'er lovely ...
To My Copy Of Shakspeare Which Had Been Lost (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Hast thou come back, my Shakspeare! bard, Who didst dethrone and drive away those others,From cold Parnassus, fate that seem'd too ...
To Eleanor (James Avis Bartley Poems)
When Hesper shows his rosiate lamp of love, High in yon lofty arch of dewy blue;When gentle dews distilling from above, Sparkle ...
To The Muse. L’Envoi (James Avis Bartley Poems)
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 ...
Lilly: A Poem (James Avis Bartley Poems)
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 ...
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 ...
Beneath Those Stars Of Summer (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Beneath those stars of summer, I told thee my wild love;And I beheld thy blushes, And saw thy bosom move.It was a ...
Song (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Oh! Love's the sweetest joy of earth, Love's keenest pang is bliss,And, like a wild, delirious bee, We hang upon a kiss:With ...
The Vow Of Love (James Avis Bartley Poems)
'Twas evening's hour of magic power, The sun went brightly down,And shadows fell as with a spell, Along the mountains brown.On high ...
Hallowed Ground (James Avis Bartley Poems)
What bids the soul of man to gaze, Upon a spot of earth,As a sun of focal rays? The spell of human ...
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 ...
The Train Is Coming (James Avis Bartley Poems)
The train is coming, coming, It whistles, don't you hear?I saw the smoking engine, And soon they will be here.The train is ...
Where Is Our Brother? (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Where is our brother? I have come From wandering far and long,And oh! I miss one well-known face, Gone from our little ...
You Ask Why I Am Lonely Now (James Avis Bartley Poems)
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 ...
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 ...
Baby Song (James Avis Bartley Poems)
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 ...
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 ...