The Rural Life In New England. Canto Second (Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney Poems)
In the gay and crowded cityWhere the tall and jostling roof-treesJealous seem of one another,Jealous of the ground they stand ...
In the gay and crowded cityWhere the tall and jostling roof-treesJealous seem of one another,Jealous of the ground they stand ...
FAR in the west, where still the red man heldHis rights unrifled, dwelt an aged chief,With his young daughter. Joyous ...
Died at Hartford, August 4th, 1861; and his wife, Mrs. ELIZA STORRSTRUMBULL, the night after his funeral.Death's shafts fly thick, ...
FOR the first time, a lovely sceneEarth saw, and smiled,--A gentle form with pallid mienBending o'er a newborn child:The pang, ...
Late Chief Justice of Connecticut, died at Hartford, on Sunday morning,December 15th, 1861, aged 84. 'Tis not for pen and ink,Or ...
I have crept forth to die among the trees.They have sweet voices that I love to hear,Sweet, lute-like voices. They ...
Flow on for ever, in thy glorious robeOf terror and of beauty. Yea, flow onUnfathom'd and resistless. God hath setHis ...
Died at Hartford, on Saturday Evening, November 15th, 1862, aged 62years.A sense of loss is on us. One hath gone Whose ...
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, May 4th, 1860.Aye, robe yourselves in black, light messengersWhose letter'd faces to the people tellThe pulse and ...
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 ...
I fain would be thy pupil, mighty Deep!Yet speak thou gently to me, for I fearThy liquid terror, and I ...
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 ...
ABOVE them spread a stranger sky Around, the sterile plain,The rock-bound coast rose frowning nigh, Beyond,--the wrathful main:Chill remnants of the wintry ...
Died at Hartford, November, 1861.The knot of crape upon yon stately door,And sadness brooding o'er the sun-bright halls,What do they ...
Died at Hartford, May 22d, 1860, aged 87.One saintly man the less, to teach us howWisely to live,--one blest example ...
I heard a knellToll slow amid the consecrated islesWhere slumber England's dead. A solemn dirgeBroke forth amid the tomb of kings, ...
Editor of the "Christian Secretary" for more than twenty years, died atHartford, December 5th, aged 59.We knew him as a ...
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