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 ...
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.)The Indian Chieftain is far away,Through the forest his footsteps fly,But his heart is behind him ...
(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, ...
(Written in her thirteenth year.)When Israel's sons, from cruel bondage freed,Fled to the land by righteous Heaven decreed;Insulting Pharaoh quick ...
(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 fifteenth year.)Touch not the heart, for Sorrow's voiceWill mingle in the chorus wild;When Scotland weeps, canst thou ...
I come in the breath of the waken'd breeze,I kiss the flowers, and I bend the trees;And I shake the ...
(Writtten in her thirteenth year.)Why that blush on Ella's cheek,What doth the flitting wand'rer seek?Doth passion's black'ning tempest scowl,To agitate ...
(Written in her fifteenth year )When evening spreads her shades around,And darkness fills the arch of heaven;When not a murmur, ...
(Written in her sixteenth year.)Farewell, and whenever calm solitude's hour,Shall silently spread its broad wings o'er your bower,Oh! then gaze ...
(Written in her fifteenth year.)Sweet babe, I cannot hope thou wilt be freedFrom woes, to all, since earliest time, decreed;But ...
(Written in her fifteenth year.)Headache! thou bane to Pleasure's fairy spell,Thou fiend, thou foe to joy, I know thee well!Beneath ...
Thou brightly-glittering star of even,Thou gem upon the brow of HeavenOh! were this fluttering spirit free,How quick 't would spread ...
(Written in her fifteenth year.)Oh! I have seen the blush of morn,And I have seen the evening sky;But ah! they ...
"IF I LOSE THEE, I AM LOST."ADDRESSED TO A FRIEND.(Written in her fifteenth year.)Wafted o'er a treacherous seaFar from home, ...
Written in her fifteenth year.His faults were great, his virtues less,His mind a burning lamp of Heaven;His talents were bestowed ...
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