Ode (Maria Gowen Brooks Poems)
Thou who wert born of Psyche and of LoveAnd fondly nurst on Poesy's warm breast Painting, oh, power adored! My country's sons ...
Thou who wert born of Psyche and of LoveAnd fondly nurst on Poesy's warm breast Painting, oh, power adored! My country's sons ...
Thou with the dark blue eye upturned to heaven,And cheek now pale, now warm with radiant glow, Daughter of God,--most dear,-- Come ...
COMPOSED AT THE REQUEST OF A LADY WHO RETURNED TO THE NORTH AND DIED SOON AFTER.ADIEU, fair isle! I love ...
ADIEU, fair isle! I love thy bowers, I love thy dark-eyed daughters there;The cool pomegranate's scarlet flowers Look brighter in their jetty ...
How beauteous art thou, O thou morning sun! -The old man, feebly tottering forth, admiresAs much thy beauty, now life's ...
SWEET is the evening twilight; but, alas!There's sadness in it: day's light tasks are done,And leisure sighs to think how ...
ACACIAS here inclinedTheir friendly heads in thick profusion, planted,And with a thousand tendrils clasp'd and twined;And when at fervid noon ...
'T IS now the hour of mirth, the hour of love,The hour of melancholy. Night, as vainOf her full beauty, ...
THEN, lowly bending, with seraphic grace,The vase he proffer'd full; and not a gemDrawn forth successive from its sparkling place,But ...
OH! laurel'd bard, how can I part,Those cheering smiles no more to see,Until my soothed and solaced heartPours forth one ...
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