Ocean : Gratefully Inscribed to Mr. Linfitt of Burnham Academy (Mary Anne Browne Poems)
Oh ! how I love to stand on some high rock, And gaze upon the foaming wild abyss Of Ocean — all ...
Mary Anne Browne Poems (64 Poems)
Mont Blanc (Mary Anne Browne Poems)
Monarch of mountains! in thy cloudy robe, Thou sit'st secure upon thy craggy throne, Seeming to lord it over half the globe, As ...
St. Mark’s Eve – A Fragment (Mary Anne Browne Poems)
'Twas the Eve of St. Mark, and she stood by the church, And gazed with undaunted eyeOn the ruin'd form of ...
Greece (Mary Anne Browne Poems)
The flowers still bloom in fair Ionia's isles ;On Marathon the summer sun still smiles ;The zephyr in the balmy ...
Luke XVIII. 42. (Mary Anne Browne Poems)
And Jesus said unto him, Receive thy sight, thy faith hath saved thee.HE sate by the way side, an aged ...
Loves (Mary Anne Browne Poems)
There is a love by Nature fix'd, Deep planted in the human heart;It is a feeling pure—unmix'd— That cannot from the breast ...
Stanzas to Mary (Mary Anne Browne Poems)
Nay ;— do not strive to check my tears, But let them flow unheeded on ; —The cherish'd hope of future ...
On Reading An Assertion (Mary Anne Browne Poems)
Oh, why say that Woman is faithless and light, And that wisdom alone to thy sex is confined ;That her heart ...
John VIII. 11. (Mary Anne Browne Poems)
He said unto the woman, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.SHE stood beneath the temple's sacred ...
The Mourner to New-Year’s Day (Mary Anne Browne Poems)
Roll on, sad year !—thou canst not bring Aught that can bless, or injure me,—Roll on ;—and on thy heavy wing Bear ...
She Dreameth (Mary Anne Browne Poems)
She sleeps within a blooming bower,And around her is many a summer flower,And the fragrant winds that wander thereStir the ...
The last time I stood by this river (Mary Anne Browne Poems)
The last time I stood by this river, The sun was just sinking to rest ;I parted — and parted for ...
Revelations X. 5, 6. (Mary Anne Browne Poems)
And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and uponthe earth, lifted up his hand to heaven, and ...
Ennisfall (Mary Anne Browne Poems)
When last I took a sad farewell Of thee—my native Ennisfall,The cold pale moon-light softly fell On the grey turrets of thy ...
Tears (Mary Anne Browne Poems)
What is that tear—that sorrowless tear— That rests on the infant's cheek awhile,'Till the fond parent coming near Soon chases away the ...
The Maniac (Mary Anne Browne Poems)
I know, my love, thou art false to me ; Yet I cannot love thee less :And I know I have ...
Exodus XX. 3. (Mary Anne Browne Poems)
Thou shalt have no other gods before me."BLESSED be God! who has not sealedHis gospel from our sight,Who His commandments ...
1 Corinthians XIII. 11. (Mary Anne Browne Poems)
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; ...
Lament for a Highland Chieftain (Mary Anne Browne Poems)
'Tis he ! — Our noble Chieftain liesStretch'd on the turf before our eyes ;His life-blood on the heathery groundDrops ...
Jeremiah XVII. 9. (Mary Anne Browne Poems)
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.THE ocean wave at morn is calm,Above it glows the quiet ...
I Speak Not of Beauty (Mary Anne Browne Poems)
I speak not of beauty; — it is not a face That can win the affection of hearts such as mine ...
Verses – Written After Reading the Anacreonic Song in ‘The Light of Haram’ (Mary Anne Browne Poems)
It is not in the hall where the sparkling wine flows, That pleasure, and peace, and contentment are foundFor me there ...
John IV. 24. (Mary Anne Browne Poems)
God is a Spirit; and they that worship him, must worship Him in spirit and in truth.WHERE shall we worship ...
Stanzas – 3 (Mary Anne Browne Poems)
Nay ;—ask not for a mirthful air,— I ne'er will sing of joy again ;Dejected—driven to despair— As I for ever must ...
To Mary, On Seeing Her Portrait (Mary Anne Browne Poems)
Oh take that portrait from my sight; — I cannot bear to gazeOn eyes that only mock the light Hers shed on ...
From a Wife to Her Husband in Adversity (Mary Anne Browne Poems)
Why heave that sigh, my only love ? Is, then, the scene so sad before thee,That nothing can the thoughts remove That ...
Stanzas – 2 (Mary Anne Browne Poems)
Hast thou not seen when winter hath bound In icy chains the river;When not a flower adorn'd the ground, And nature seem'd ...
Written In An Album (Mary Anne Browne Poems)
Unworthy though I am to claim Remembrance fond of one like thee,Yet on this page I trace my name, That thou may'st ...
Stanzas, On the Death of a Young Lady (Mary Anne Browne Poems)
And can it be true, that thy pure happy spirit Hath fled from these regions of darkness and death,In the beautiful ...
Hebrews XI. 1. (Mary Anne Browne Poems)
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.FAIR maiden! who art thou?Who, with ...