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 ...
DEAD!-it was like a thunderboltTo hear that he was dead;Though for long weeks the words of fearCame from his dying ...
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 ...
FIRST FAIRY.MY home and haunt are in every leaf,Whose life is a summer day, bright and brief,--I live in the ...
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 ...
LITTLE the present careth for the past,Too little-'tis not well!For careless ones we dwellBeneath the mighty shadow it has cast.Its ...
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 ...
"We fly from the cold."AWAY , away, o'er land and sea,This is now no home for me;My light wings may ...
LIFE in its many shapes was there,The busy and the gay;Faces that seemed too young and fairTo ever know decay.Wealth, ...
THEY fled,--for there was for the braveLeft only a dishonour'd grave.The day was lost; and his red handWas now upon ...
HE stood by the river's sideA conqueror and a king,None match'd his step of prideAmid the armed ring.And a heavy ...
She lay upon a bank, the favourite hauntOf the spring wind in its first sunshine hour,For the luxuriant strawberry blossoms ...
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, gaze upon her rose-wreath'd hair, And gaze upon her smile; Seem as you drank the very air Her breath perfumed the while; And ...
LONG years have past since last I stoodAlone amid this mountain scene,Unlike the future which I dreamed,How like my future ...
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 ...
HE stands within the silent square,That square of state, of gloom;A heavy weight is on the air,Which hangs as o'er ...
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 ...
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