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 ...
What hast thou seen, with thy shining eye, Thou Needle, so subtle and keen?--"I have been in Paradise, stainless and fair.And ...
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 ...
Why gaze ye on my hoary hairs,Ye children young and gay?Your locks, beneath the blast of cares,Will bleach as white ...
Flow on for ever, in thy glorious robeOf terror and of beauty. Yea, flow onUnfathom'd and resistless. God hath setHis ...
Died at Hartford, May 4th, 1860.Aye, robe yourselves in black, light messengersWhose letter'd faces to the people tellThe pulse and ...
I fain would be thy pupil, mighty Deep!Yet speak thou gently to me, for I fearThy liquid terror, and I ...
For more than sixty years Pastor of one Church in East Granville,Mass., died there in 1859, aged 83.Not in the ...
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 Sacramento, California, January 16th, 1860, aged 70.A pleasant theme it is to think of himThat parted friend, whose ...
Died at Hartford, May 12th, 1860.Gone, pure in heart! unto thy fitting home,Where nought of ill can follow. O'er thy ...
Died at Hartford, May 22d, 1860, aged 87.One saintly man the less, to teach us howWisely to live,--one blest example ...
Tree! why hast thou doffed thy mantle of greenFor the gorgeous grab of an Indian queen?With the timbered brown, and ...
Died at Mansfield, Connecticut, February, 1861.The world seems drearier when the good depart,The just, the truthful, such as never madeSelf ...
ST. STEPHEN'S cloistered hall was proudIn learning's pomp that day,For there a robed and stately crowdPressed on in long array.A ...
Died at Portland, Connecticut, January 1st, 1861.I think of her unfolding prime, Her childhood bright and fair,The speaking eye, the earnest ...
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 ...
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