Recollection (Laura Sophia Temple Poems)
An Elegiac Poem to the Memory of MARIA CATHARINETEMPLE.Steal on dark silent hour ! I love thy sway,Let others hail ...
An Elegiac Poem to the Memory of MARIA CATHARINETEMPLE.Steal on dark silent hour ! I love thy sway,Let others hail ...
Bright smiles the face of bucksome day,And merry bells their changes ring ;But who is he in trim so gay,Whose ...
Supposed to be written by the VICTIM of an ill-placed AFFECTION."Enchanted grounds o'er which I vacant stray'd,In bow'rs of fragrance ...
Now died the Night-breeze on the winding shore,And Folly's babbling voice was heard no more ;Calm was the hour, all ...
A PERSIAN TALE.The fable of the following little tale is taken from an ingenious and justly admired AuthorYe blooming Maids ...
"Yet Hope was once my parasite,"And flattered, and revelled, and ruined."Thou ask'st, my Friend, why starts th' unbidden tear, Why from ...
What art thou calm ? Is all thy flutt'ring o'er ?Does Joy dilate, does Grief convulse no more ?Has Passion ...
Gone are the dreams of gay delight,That hover'd o'er my youthful slumbers ; No more I view their features bright,No more ...
Ah ! let me hear again that mellow strain,That dulcet trill, whose soft and lucid sweepSteals o'er my trembling soul ...
A PASTORAL.Fair Nature looks jocund, her features are gay, And ripe are the Roses of Love,The children of Summer blush wild ...
Lo ! at length the Morn appearingComes with faintly-dawning light,Quick I start, the summons hearing,From the fever'd dreams of night.Oh ...
Now, while the voice of Folly sleeps,While Fancy's wings are gaily plying, And o'er the plains and shadowy steepsThe gales of ...
Supposed to have been written by MARY, Queen of Scots,during her confinement.Now brightly smiles the cloudless sky,And soft the gales ...
Loud rav'd the rav'ning storm ! it came--it past,And Angels trembled at the ruthless blast ;Yes, angels wept to view ...
What is Pleasure ?--'tis a bubble, Fill'd with empty froth and wind ;Leading on to care and trouble, Leaving many a sting ...
SONG.I saw the leaves of Hope uncloseI drank their rich meridian bloom ;And oh ! behold her fairest rose,Stripp'd of ...
SONG .Now smiling Summer gilds the scene,And bids each flow'r its sweets exhale,Clothes the tall hills in brightest green,And loads ...
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