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 ...
John Anster Poems on Sadness (12 Poems)
Zamri. A fragment (John Anster Poems)
Hast thou sailed on the summer seaWhen its bosom lies in light?And have the scenes of life to theeBeen as ...
Solitude (John Anster Poems)
Oh, what a lovely silent spot!'Mid such a scene the eremite would hopeTo build his lowly cot,Just where with easy ...
Ode To Fancy (John Anster Poems)
Oh Fancy, hither bend thy flight,Hither steer thy car of light,Tho' its rainbow colours fleeEre they have shone a moment ...
Elegy (John Anster Poems)
Oh breathe not--breathe not--sure 'twas something holy--Earth hath no sounds like these--again it passesWith a wild, low voice, that slowly ...
Matilda (John Anster Poems)
Scene.--A Terrace overlooking the Garden of a Convent--Matilda and Bertha in conversation.Matilda.Oh! think not that I mourn the lonely doomThat ...
The Triumph Of Music (John Anster Poems)
Lonely was the blossomingOf the sad unwelcomed Spring;And Man, the slave of passions blind and brute,A wanderer in a world ...
Mirth And Grief. An Allegory (John Anster Poems)
In vain--ah me!--in vain, with murmured charmOf love--inwoven sounds, would I recallThe long--forgotten art--in vain imploreAt noon the colouring of ...
A Dream Remembered In A Dream (John Anster Poems)
Mine was a dream of strange delight,And did not vanish with the night.Methought a Voice was leading meThro' dusk walks ...
Dirge (John Anster Poems)
CHORUS.Like the oak of the vale was thy strength and thy height,Thy foot, like the erne of the mountain in ...
“Mark Ye Well The Blood–Red Rose.” (John Anster Poems)
Mark ye well the blood--red Rose,Matin hour, her hood unclose,Ye shall in her blushing faceThe weeping dews of midnight trace.Such ...
Sonnet. “And must I perish thus?–a nameless tomb” (John Anster Poems)
And must I perish thus?--a nameless tombWhere few shall weep:--some days of writhing pain,Ere yet I sink:--some hopes that still ...