Red Rose (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Sweet rose! ere Ellen gathered thee From off thy parent stem,With hope to rival her sweet cheek, Thou wast a floral gem.But ...
James Avis Bartley Poems (135 Poems)
Love Without Hope (James Avis Bartley Poems)
I cannot cease to love thee, Coldest fair!Though pleading cannot move thee, And I despair.Thy beauty was diviner, Than the summer moon,And thou ...
Song Of The Converted Heathen (James Avis Bartley Poems)
The sky to me did never speak, The sea rolled ever dumb,--Of him beneath whose wondrous power, Their mystic forms had come.The ...
The Enchanted Realm Of Joy (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Oh! I am sick of the ennui that comes of the earth,All tasteless its landscapes--and charmless its mirth.Away, swift away, ...
To A Poet (James Avis Bartley Poems)
O poet, would'st thou make a name That ne'er will die,But be coeval with the lights In yonder sky?Strike not a single, ...
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 ...
The Child’s Prayer (James Avis Bartley Poems)
O Lord, I kneel at mother's knee,And lift my trembling heart to thee.Send down thy grace, I meekly pray,To drive ...
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 ...
The Flowers (James Avis Bartley Poems)
The flowers! the flowers! I love ye, flowers; Ye have a mystic voiceTo speak unto my inmost soul And make my heart ...
Written In An Album (James Avis Bartley Poems)
As stainless thought my hand should write,Upon this page of spotless white;Nor would I that thy falling tearShould blot the ...
To My Lyre (James Avis Bartley Poems)
O harp, with whom my childhood played, Within that verdant dell,O'erbower'd by boughs of grateful shade, I go--Farewell! farewell!If I have durst ...
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 ...
Native Mountains (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Native Mountains! on your summits, Stream the gleaming floods of day,While a thousand silver cascades, Leap within the early ray;There amid your ...
Song–Undying Affection (James Avis Bartley Poems)
I loved thee in my happy youth, When I was free from guile,And I have kept that early truth, And wear as ...
Oh, Blue-Eyed Maid, I Sigh For Thee (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Oh! blue-eyed maid, I sigh for thee, A gentle twilight's close,When music dies upon the lea, And dew drops wet the rose.I ...
My Old Virginia Home (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Around my old Virginia home, My heart forever clings;Whene'er I hear its name pronounced, I think a thousand things.I think how once ...
Freedom’s Home (James Avis Bartley Poems)
O freedom's home! thy banner streams, A meteor on the gale;And I behold the haughty flags Of Europe fade and pale.And, crowding ...
Sabbath (James Avis Bartley Poems)
The Sabbath morn! How beautiful, How peaceful and how blest;An Angel's whisper seems to lull The weary world to rest.Hark! how the ...
Susie (James Avis Bartley Poems)
A gentle maid, a dove-like soul, An eye that knows no ill;I met her from her rural walk, Upon yon grassy hill.Her ...
Love Song – II (James Avis Bartley Poems)
I love thee, oh! I love thee, As the sweet bee loves the flower,As the swallow loves the summer, As the humming ...
Near Yonder Banks At Even (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Near yonder banks at even, We whispered words most dear,Till love's sweet star in Heaven, Was shining, bright and clear.We saw the ...
Yorktown (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Here met three nations, panoplied for fight, Moving before the vision gorgeously;Then shamed with Battle's gloom the paling Night, Upon the land ...
To The Beloved (James Avis Bartley Poems)
I dream of thee, beloved one, When the moon comes o'er the sea,And hangs her horns of silver, In yonder forest tree!I ...
Time And Eternity (James Avis Bartley Poems)
The darkness falls on wood and field, On lofty peak, on silent sea,The infant Moon and Planets yield A faint and feeble ...
The Life-Land (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Oh yes, there's a land, far away, out of sight,Where the fairest of flowers forever bloom bright--Where the groves never ...
To Mis M.T.R. (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Whate'er may be my unknown fate Upon this dark, terrestrial sphere,Wilt smile to hear that I am blest, And o'er my anguish ...
To Fannie (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Fair maid, in those beloved eyes, The dream of pensive beauty lies,The radiance when the day grows less, The charm of twilight ...
The Sleeper (James Avis Bartley Poems)
The sleeper lies, with closed eyes, And softly moving breath,So soft, so still, her life's sweet thrill, 'Tis only more than death.Her ...
Of A Skylark (James Avis Bartley Poems)
At dawn I rose from silent sleep, And heard a sky-lark singing,Amid the azure far and deep, Till all the arch was ...
Farewell To Ablemarle (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Farewell, ye verdant hills and vales, Farewell thou rolling river,Whose waves flow onward to the sea, Returning, never, never.From all thy scenes, ...