Marietta Holley Poems on Happiness Archives - Famous Inspirational Poems, Poetry, Quotes

"I leave my child to Heaven." And with these wordsUpon her lips, the Lady Mildred passedUnto the rest prepared for her ...

I said that I would see Her once, to curse her fair, deceitful grace,To curse her for my life-long agony; But when ...

High on a rocky cliff did once a gray old castle stand,From whence rough-bearded chieftains led their vassals--ruled the land.For centuries ...

Last night she came unto me, And kneeling by my side,Laid her head upon my bosom, My beautiful, my bride;My lost one, ...

I might strive as well to melt to softness the soulless breast Of some fair and saintly image, carven out of ...

'Twas a bleak dull moor that stretched beforeThe low stone porch of the cottage door,And standing there was youth and ...

On the shore I sit and gaze Out on the twilight sea,For my ship may come, though many days I have waited ...

In a waste of yellow sand, on the brow of a dreary hill, A slight little slip of a rose struggled ...

The sides of the hill were brown, but violet buds had started In gray and hidden nooks o'erhung by feathery ferns ...

Come, gentle sleep, with the holy night, Come with the stars and the white moonbeams,Come with your train of handmaids bright, Blessed ...

What though upon a wintry sea our life bark sails,What though we tremble 'neath its cruel gales, Its icy blast;We see ...

My heart sings like a bird to-nightThat flies to its nest in the soft twilight, And sings in its brooding bliss;Ah! ...

Now sinks the Summer sun into the sea; Sure never such a sunset shone as this, That on its golden wing has ...

Marietta Holley Poems on Happiness (13 Poems)