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 fourteenth year.)WHAT sight of horror, fear and woe,Now greets chief Hillis-ha-ad-joe?What thought of blood now lights 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.)'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 yoar.)Methought, (unwitting how the place I gained,)I rested on a fleecy, floating cloudFar o'er the earth, ...
A VOLCANIC ISLAND, WHICH APPEARED AND DISAPPEARED AMONG THE AZORES, IN 1811.(Written in her sixteenth year.)Isle of the ocean, say, ...
And must we part? yes, part for ever;I'll waken thee again - no, never;Silence shall chain thee cold and drear,And ...
We commend our brother to thee, oh earth!To thee he returns, from thee was his birth!Of thee was he form'd, ...
(Written in her fourteenth year.)WHY, gentle Muse, wilt thou disdainTo lend thy strains to me?Why do I supplicate in vainAnd ...
"IF I LOSE THEE, I AM LOST."ADDRESSED TO A FRIEND.(Written in her fifteenth year.)Wafted o'er a treacherous seaFar from home, ...
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