Ode On Hope (Maria Logan Poems)
HOPE , heavenly maid! to thee I sing, Who hovering round the anguish'd heart, Dost steep in dewy balm thy wing, To lenify ...
Maria Logan Poems (24 Poems)
To Sleep (Maria Logan Poems)
HASTE! gentle Sleep! in pity shedThy blessings on my weary head:Come! but do not come alone,Bring the partners of thy ...
The Bride-Cake (Maria Logan Poems)
"HERE! take this potent charm," Mauritius said,"And see if Time hath ought in store for thee;"With care beneath thy downy ...
Stanzas To The Moon (Maria Logan Poems)
TO thee, bright Orb, my humid eyes I raise; To thee I sigh, reflecting as I gaze,How dark earth's transitory scenes ...
To The Author’s Brother. On the choice of a Wife in the Year 1789 (Maria Logan Poems)
O THOU, the best of brothers and of friends!Say, who but thee could wake the sleeping lyre?Fann'd by thy breath ...
To Opium (Maria Logan Poems)
LET others boast the golden spoil, Which Indian climes afford;And still, with unavailing toil, Increase the shining hoard:Still let Golconda's dazzling pride On ...
To Adelina. Written while reading the Third Volume of Mrs Smith’s ‘Orphan of the Castle’ (Maria Logan Poems)
THOU lovely penitent! whose long-drawn sighsBespeak a breast o'ercharg'd with silent grief;O lift once more to heav'n thy downcast eyes,Whence ...
The Crops, A Tale. (Maria Logan Poems)
A MONKEY-TRIBE that lately bred, By some odd chance in Britain's isle,When comb'd and drest, and wash'd and fed, With lap-dogs shar'd ...
Ode to Indifference (Maria Logan Poems)
BE thou, Indifference! my song,And as life's days glide careless on, I'll shed no sorrowing tear;If thou wilt in my bosom ...
The Beggar Boy. A Tale. (Maria Logan Poems)
"OH ! Lady, listen to my tale, " 'Twill drive the roses from thy cheek;"Let soft humanity prevail, "And hear the hapless ...
To Sickness (Maria Logan Poems)
WHAT tho' my cheeks thy pallid liv'ry wear. And each enfeebled nerve thy pow'r obeys!Tho' hourly doom'd thy chilling grasp to ...
Ode To Fortune On My Birth Day (Maria Logan Poems)
AH ! Fortune, turn thy mazy wheel,If aught of good the fates conceal, To cheer my natal day;To scatter this unjoyous ...
To Imagination (Maria Logan Poems)
THOU fair enchantress! whose delusive charms Oft-times have drawn my wand'ring feet astray,Oft-times seduc'd me from Reflection's arms, Beyond the light of ...
The Maniac, A Song (Maria Logan Poems)
BEHOLD yonder Maniac! how swiftly she flies, O'er hills, and o'er mountains, still deep'ning her sighs,She laughs at the trav'ller who ...
Ode to Ingratitude (Maria Logan Poems)
THE sigh that struggles in my breast,The tear that fain would give it rest, Can no relief impart;Since first I felt ...
Ode on Adversity (Maria Logan Poems)
ADVERSITY ! whose gloomy face Still haunts my wearied eye,What bosom can thy sorrows chase, By thee once doom'd to sigh?Chill blew ...
Lines on Friendship. Addressed to Miss F. B*****. (Maria Logan Poems)
WHILE Friendship, Frances! spreads my Muse's wing,Dwells on thy virtues, and allures to sing,If these weak hands could touch the ...
To Miss H-D. In Answer To A Very Elegant Copy of Verses (Maria Logan Poems)
NO!- I will ne'er lament that Heav'n deniesThe jocund pleasures Health's gay Queen supplies;Tho' all the joys that frolic in ...
Verses. Designed for an Inscription at the Entrance of a Grove (Maria Logan Poems)
SONS of Discord! come not near, Peace and gentle Love are here; Each unhallow'd passion hence! Here Pleasure dwells with Innocence. Beauteous pair! may ...
To Health (Maria Logan Poems)
COME! jocund Nymph of rosy hue,Thy light foot wet with morning dew,Thy bosom open to the gale,Which breathes delight o'er ...
Sonnet. On the Spring of a Seventh Year of Uninterrupted Sickness (Maria Logan Poems)
AGAIN the unexpected year returns,But Health,-gay smiling Health,-returns no more!E'en now with added rage the fever burns,Tho' chilling northern blasts ...
Margaret’s Death – A Song (Maria Logan Poems)
(THE SAME MEASURE AS ROSLIN CASTLE.)'Twas night! and all were hush'd in sleep,Save the 'lorn wretch who wakes to weep,When ...
Impromptu, To A Friend (Maria Logan Poems)
IN pity cease-nor thus for ever pour The pois'nous draught of flatt'ry o'er my mind;Why seek to lessen its too little ...
Sonnet To My Father (Maria Logan Poems)
AH ! who can paint the joys and fears, When, distant in a foreign land,A Daughter reads with flowing tears A letter ...