Lines On The Death Of The Princess Charlotte (John Anster Poems)
Weep!--for the wrath of God is over us!Weep!--for his arm is lifted to destroy!Famine hath thinned the land! in Autumn's ...
Weep!--for the wrath of God is over us!Weep!--for his arm is lifted to destroy!Famine hath thinned the land! in Autumn's ...
Hast thou sailed on the summer seaWhen its bosom lies in light?And have the scenes of life to theeBeen as ...
Oh, what a lovely silent spot!'Mid such a scene the eremite would hopeTo build his lowly cot,Just where with easy ...
Oh Fancy, hither bend thy flight,Hither steer thy car of light,Tho' its rainbow colours fleeEre they have shone a moment ...
Oh breathe not--breathe not--sure 'twas something holy--Earth hath no sounds like these--again it passesWith a wild, low voice, that slowly ...
Scene.--A Terrace overlooking the Garden of a Convent--Matilda and Bertha in conversation.Matilda.Oh! think not that I mourn the lonely doomThat ...
Lonely was the blossomingOf the sad unwelcomed Spring;And Man, the slave of passions blind and brute,A wanderer in a world ...
Mine was a dream of strange delight,And did not vanish with the night.Methought a Voice was leading meThro' dusk walks ...
Seen through pure crystal the imprisoned sand,Without a murmur, counts its flowing hour;--The dial's shifting bar of shade;--the handOf the ...
Alfred,--oh read his tale by Milton told!--In seasons, when the change of day and nightDoth, in our heaven, ill separate ...
Well! with what art we labour to deceiveOur hearts, and nurse vain phantasies of Hope,And swelling thoughts, that have no ...
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