The Troubadour. Canto 1 (Letitia Elizabeth Landon Poems)
CALL to mind your loveliest dream,--When your sleep is lull'd by a mountain stream,When your pillow is made of the ...
CALL to mind your loveliest dream,--When your sleep is lull'd by a mountain stream,When your pillow is made of the ...
WHY did she love her mother's so?It hath wrought her wondrous wo.Once she saw an armed knightIn the pale sepulchral ...
None will dwell in that cottage; for, they sayOppression reft it from an honest man,And that a curse clings to ...
SHE sat alone beside her hearth-For many nights alone;She slept not on the pleasant couchWhere fragrant herbs were strewn.At first ...
HOW deep within each human heart,A thousand treasured feelings lie;Things precious, delicate, apart,Too sensitive for human eye.Our purest feelings, and ...
ALONE in the forest, Sir Lancelot rodeO'er the neck of his courser the reins lightly flowedAnd beside hung his helmet, ...
SHE left the festival, for it seem'd dimNow that her eye no longer dwelt on him,And sought her chamber,--gazed, (then ...
THROUGH the light curtains came the perfumed air,And flung them back and show'd a garden, whereThe eye could just catch ...
He is come from the land of the sword and shrine,From the sainted battles of Palestine;The snow plumes wave o'er ...
IT was a king in Africa,He had an only son;And none of Europe's crowned kingsCould have a dearer one.With good ...
THE sun is on the crowded street,It kindles those old towers;Where England's noblest memories meet,Of old historic hours.Vast, shadowy, dark, ...
IT is Christmas, and the sunshineLies golden on the fields,And flowers of white and purpleYonder fragrant creeper yields.Like the plumes ...
DIVINEST art, the stars aboveWere fated on thy birth to shine;Oh, born of beauty and of love,What early poetry was ...
SHE was just risen from her bended knee,But yet peace seem'd not with her piety;For there was paleness upon her ...
AND there the island lay, the waves aroundHad never known a storm; for the north windWas charm'd from coming, and ...
SHE is yet a child in years,Twelve springs are on her face,Yet in her slender form appearsThe woman's perfect grace.Her ...
AY, surely it is here that Love should come,And find, (if he may find on earth), a home;Here cast off ...
THERE'S a white stone placed upon yonder tomb, Beneath is a soldier lying —The death-wound came, amid sword and plume, When banner ...
OH lone and lovely solitude,Washed by the sounding sea;Nature was in a poet's mood,When she created thee.How pleasant in the ...
Vain folly of another age,This wandering over earth,To find the peace by some dark sinBanish'd our household hearth.On Lebanon the ...
Alone, alone! — no other faceWears kindred smile, kindred line;And yet they say my mother's eyes.They say my father's brow, ...
I SHOULD like to dwell where the deep blue seaRock'd to and fro as tranquilly,As if it were willing the ...
IT suits thee well to weep,As thou lookest on the fair land,Whose sceptre thou hast heldWith less than woman's hand.On ...
MARK you not yon sad procession;'Mid the ruin'd abbey's gloom,Hastening to the worm's possession,To the dark and silent tomb!See the ...
YOUTH! thou art a lovely time,With thy wild and dreaming eyes;Looking onwards to their prime,Coloured by their April skies,Yet I ...
A word will fill the little heartWith pleasure and with pride;It is a harsh, a cruel thing,That such can be ...
FLOAT on-float on-my haunted bark,Above the midnight tide;Bear softly o'er the waters darkThe hopes that with thee glide.Float on-float on-thy ...
AY, screen thy favourite dove, fair child,Ay, screen it if you may,--Yet I misdoubt thy trembling handWill scare the hawk ...
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