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 ...
THE lake is calm, the sun is low,The whippoorwill is chaunting slow,And scarce a leaf through the forest is seenTo ...
(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.)'T was evening - all was calm and silent, saveThe low hoarse dashing of the distant ...
(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 fifteenth year.)Loud 'gainst the rocks the wild spray is dashing,Its snowy white foam o'er the waves rudely ...
(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 ...
(IN IMITATION OF THE SCOTCH)Written in her thirteenth yearWha is it that caemeth sae blithe and sae swift,His bonnet is ...
(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 ...
I come in the breath of the waken'd breeze,I kiss the flowers, and I bend the trees;And I shake the ...
(Written in her fifteenth year.)Am I in fairy land? or tell me, pray,To what love-lighted bower I've found my way?Sure ...
A VOLCANIC ISLAND, WHICH APPEARED AND DISAPPEARED AMONG THE AZORES, IN 1811.(Written in her sixteenth year.)Isle of the ocean, say, ...
(Written in her fifteenth year )When evening spreads her shades around,And darkness fills the arch of heaven;When not a murmur, ...
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 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 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 ...
Farewell, and may some angel guide,Some viewless spirit hover o'er thee;Who, let or weal or woe betide,Will still unchanging move ...
How sweet the hour when daylight blendsWith the pensive shadows on evening's breast;And dear to the heart is the pleasure ...
(Written in her fifteenth yaar.)When Cushan was mourning in solitude drear,When the curtains of Midian trembled with fear,On the wings ...
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