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 ...
THERE's silence in the princely halls,And brightly blaze the lighted walls,While clouds of musk and incense riseFrom vases of a ...
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 ...
(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.)Loud 'gainst the rocks the wild spray is dashing,Its snowy white foam o'er the waves rudely ...
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, ...
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