Oriska (Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney Poems)
FAR in the west, where still the red man heldHis rights unrifled, dwelt an aged chief,With his young daughter. Joyous ...
FAR in the west, where still the red man heldHis rights unrifled, dwelt an aged chief,With his young daughter. Joyous ...
LADY Flora gave cards for a party at tea,To flowers, buds, and blossoms of every degree;So from town and from ...
FOR the first time, a lovely sceneEarth saw, and smiled,--A gentle form with pallid mienBending o'er a newborn child:The pang, ...
Died at Hartford, Sunday, May 5th, 1861.She found a painless avenue to makeThe great transition from a world of careTo ...
Died at Hartford, April 30th, 1861, aged 22.I saw a brilliant bridal. All that cheersAnd charms the leaping heart of youth ...
Died at Hartford, January 29th, 1862, aged 92.We saw him on a winter's day, Beneath the hallowed dome,Where for so many ...
Died at Hartford, December 30th, 1861.Sorrow and Joy collude. One mansion hearsThe children shouting o'er their Christmas Tree,While in the ...
Toil on! toil on! ye ephemeral train,Who build in the tossing and treacherous main;Toil on,--for the wisdom of man ye ...
Thou'rt beautiful, my flower, -my winter flower!-These many weeks I've watch'd thy graceful meshOf silvery roots, making their busy wayDown ...
Daughter of Col. SAMUEL and Mrs. ELIZABETH COLT, died January 20th,1862, aged 7 months and 27 days.THE MOURNING MOTHER.A tomb ...
A faithful Teacher of the young from early years, and recently thePrincipal of a Female Seminary and Boarding School at ...
Only son of SAMUEL S. FOSS, Esq., died May 23d, 1859, aged threeyears and three months."Read more, Papa," the loving ...
Professor of Astronomy in Yale College, Conn., died at New Haven, May,1859.Spring pour'd fresh beauty o'er the cultured grounds,And woke ...
Widow of the late CALEB POND, Esq., died at Hartford, February 19th1861, aged 73.Would any think who marked the smile On ...
Died at Hartford, August, 1859.I saw her overlaid with many flowers,Such as the gorgeous summer drapes in snow,Stainless and fragrant ...
Died at Hartford, October 23d, 1861, aged 20. How beautiful in deathThe young and lovely sleeper lies--Sweet calmness on the close-sealed ...
Died at Hartford, May 12th, 1860.Gone, pure in heart! unto thy fitting home,Where nought of ill can follow. O'er thy ...
Widow of the late EZEKIEL WILLIAMS, Esq., and Daughter of ChiefJustice Oliver Ellsworth, died at Hartford, February 28th, 1860,aged 87.She ...
Died at Hartford, May 19th, 1862.Frail stranger at the gate of life, Too weak to grasp its key,O'er whom the Sun ...
I heard a knellToll slow amid the consecrated islesWhere slumber England's dead. A solemn dirgeBroke forth amid the tomb of kings, ...
Died at Saratoga, N.Y., June 2d, 1862, aged 35.WRITTEN ON HER BIRTH-DAY.This was her birth-day here, When summer's latest flowersWere kindling ...
Died at Hartford, September 23d, 1859.The beautiful hath fled To join the spirit-train;Earth interposed with strong array,Love stretch'd his arms to ...
Child of Robert BONNER, Esq., died at New York, April 28th, 1859,aged 13 months.There was a cradling lent us here, To ...
FLOWERS! fresh flowers, with your fragrance free,Have you come in your queenly robes to me?Me hve you sought from your ...
Died at Hartford, Nov. 11th, 1839, aged 4 years and 6 months.The garner'd Jewel of our heart, The Darling of our ...
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