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.)Lo! enthron'd on golden clouds,Sinks the monarch of the day;Now yon hill his glory shrouds,And his ...
(Written in her fifteenth year.)'T was evening - all was calm and silent, saveThe low hoarse dashing of the distant ...
(Written in her seventeenth year.)And this was once the realm of nature, whereWild as the wind, tho' exquisitely fair,She breath'd ...
(Written in her fifteenth year.)As he spoke, he beheld on the sea-beaten strandA form,'twas so airy, so light,He could almost ...
(Written in her sixteenth year.)I dreamed a dream in the midst of my slumbers,And as fast as I dreamed it, ...
(Written in her fifteenth year.)Maid of the briny wave and raven lock,Whose bed's the sea-weed, and whose throne's the rock,Tell ...
I have pass'd o'er the earth in the darkness of night,I have walk'd the wild winds in the morning's broad ...
(Written in her eleventh year.)THE MOON.Lo! yonder rides the empress of the night!Unveil'd she casts around her silver light;Cease not, ...
Thou brightly-glittering star of even,Thou gem upon the brow of HeavenOh! were this fluttering spirit free,How quick 't would spread ...
She gave me a flow'ret, - and oh! it was sweet!'T was a pea, in full bloom, with its dark ...
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