Chicomico – Part V (Lucretia Maria Davidson Poems)
THE fourth day found the dark tribe brooding o'erTheir chieftain's body, chieftain now no more!As fire half-quench'd, some faint spark ...
THE fourth day found the dark tribe brooding o'erTheir chieftain's body, chieftain now no more!As fire half-quench'd, some faint spark ...
(Written in her sixteenth year)BRIGHTLY o'er spire, and dome, and tower,The pale moon shone at midnight hour,While all beneath her ...
THERE's silence in the princely halls,And brightly blaze the lighted walls,While clouds of musk and incense riseFrom vases of a ...
(Written in her fourteenth year.)WHAT sight of horror, fear and woe,Now greets chief Hillis-ha-ad-joe?What thought of blood now lights his ...
(Written in her fourteenth year.)Lo! enthron'd on golden clouds,Sinks the monarch of the day;Now yon hill his glory shrouds,And his ...
WHILE swift on his way young Rathmond sped,Death's horrors awaited those he fled.Already were the prisoners bound,One word, and every ...
AN ALLEGORY,(Written in her fifteenth year)The night was calm, the sky serene,The sea a mirror display'd,On its bosom the twinkling ...
(Written in her fifteenth year.)Friend of my heart, thou monitor of youth,Well do I love thee, dearest child of truth;Though ...
(Written in her sixteenth year.)The sky is pure, the clouds are light,The moonbeams glitter cold and bright;O'er the wide landscape ...
(Written in her fifteenth year.)Touch not the heart, for Sorrow's voiceWill mingle in the chorus wild;When Scotland weeps, canst thou ...
When bending o'er the brink of life,My trembling soul shall stand,Waiting to pass death's awful flood,Great God! at thy command.When ...
FOR THE DEATH OF GOLIATH.(Written in her fifteenth year.)Strike with joy the wild harp's string,God, O Israel, is your King!We ...
WRITTEN WHILE CONFINED TO HER BED DURING HER LAST ILLNESS.There is a something which I dread,It is a dark, a ...
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