I Love Thee (James Avis Bartley Poems)
I love thee--oh! I love thee, With fervor, deep and wild,Thy beauty's charm most strangely, My spirit hath beguiled.I love thee--oh! I ...
James Avis Bartley Poems (135 Poems)
Sunset (James Avis Bartley Poems)
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 Eloquence (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Ah Eloquence! thou God-like power; That swayest the human heart,We still must call thee, rarest dower, In the high gift of Art;And ...
Love Song – I (James Avis Bartley Poems)
My heart is newly gushing, With love for thee, with love for thee,With thoughts as wild and wasteful, As yonder sea, as ...
Parting Song (James Avis Bartley Poems)
We meet with smiles, we part in tears; This is our earthly lot,We cannot find a place on earth, Where friends have ...
Monticello (James Avis Bartley Poems)
'Tis true that when the god-like die, Their glorious monumentAre earth's great mountains and the sky, Their names with all things blent--But, ...
The Wanderer (James Avis Bartley Poems)
With none to share my ship with me,A wand'rer o'er life's stormy sea,One brilliant star, like lamp of love,Smiles calmly ...
Dwelling In Heaven (James Avis Bartley Poems)
They do not--nay, they cannot die; They go to dwell in Heaven;Where God a free and full supply Of purest joys hath ...
The Old Mill Wheel (James Avis Bartley Poems)
The old mill-wheel, it turns, it turns Throughout the livelong day,And flings the current of the stream, Abroad in glist'ning spray:That old, ...
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 ...
Take Those Pledges Back (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Take back those pledges, dearest maid, Which once I warmly gave,For then I dreamed I would be free, And nevermore thy slave.Yes! ...
The Millennium (James Avis Bartley Poems)
The promis'd years, the better times, By God himself foretold,Have dawn'd, and banish'd hateful crimes, The latest age of gold.Not now a ...
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 ...
Lilly May (James Avis Bartley Poems)
The fairest of our village maids, Was blue-eyed Lilly May;Her brow was decked with golden curls, Her laugh was wild and gay:And ...
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, ...
A Stroll Down Quality Row (James Avis Bartley Poems)
The other day I took a stroll, Just when the sun grew low,A down the Row of Quality, That gay and charming ...
The Lady’s Soliloquy (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Ah! now I am beloved by him, And sweet it is, to think,That life no more will be so dim, To make ...
The Dead Eagle (James Avis Bartley Poems)
No more through the regions of glorious day,Shall thy wings waft thee proudly--oh proudly away--No more shall thy scream thrill ...
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 ...
Montpelier, Orange County, VA (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Where'er the great have lived or died, A charm pervades the very air;And generous spirits, pausing, oft Will pour the heart's deep ...
Though Thou Wast Passing Fair (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Though thou wast passing fair, And wondrous beauty crown'd thee,And Fancy's robe most rare, Forever brightly bound thee:I could not teach my ...
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 ...
O Bride! Speak To Me (James Avis Bartley Poems)
O Birdie! speak to me, Speak from thy silent grave;It doth not roll o'er thee, Death's dark and Stygian wave!Sweet! speak, I'm ...
She Would Have It So (James Avis Bartley Poems)
I loved her; and beneath the moon,We met among the flowers of June;I gave her my all, my love's rich ...
Star Of Rest (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Star of Rest! thy silvery lustre, Brightly streams from heaven above,Ere each sweet and glittering cluster Ope on earth their eyes of ...
On —- (James Avis Bartley Poems)
A brainless beauty, a would-be coquette,A brow of marble, but a heart of jet;An eye that shows no vestige of ...
Ellen (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Ellen, my heart is not yet thine, And still I can but sigh,Whene'er I view thy semblance shine In Memory's mirror nigh.Thy ...
The Song Of May (James Avis Bartley Poems)
To mountains hoar and russet plain,A joyous sprite, I come again;With many a sweet and joyous strain,And break grim winter's ...
To A Poet’s Wife (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Thou art indeed a happy one, And hast a charmed life,A noble triumph thou hast won, A bright-eyed Poet's wife.His fancy plucks ...
The Face I See In Dreams (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Strangely sweet, and softly clear, With pure and starry beams,Reposing there, and moving here; The face I see in dreams.Oh! lovely is ...