Helen And Sedley (Mary Hopkins Pilkington Poems)
A TALE FOUNDED UPON A NOVEL,ENTITLED" HELEN OF GLENROSS."FAIR Helen was the loveliest maidThat Scotia's land has seen;A sylph-like form, ...
A TALE FOUNDED UPON A NOVEL,ENTITLED" HELEN OF GLENROSS."FAIR Helen was the loveliest maidThat Scotia's land has seen;A sylph-like form, ...
NOT far from Tyvy's banks and bayAn humble dwelling rose;Around its walls the woodbine twin'd,Encircled with the rose.The purple violet ...
NOT in a verdant varying vale,Not shelter'd by a wood,Not sweetly fann'd by zephyr's gale,Or margin'd by a flood,Whose gentle ...
DECEMBER'S hollow winds had howl'd,And whistled through the air;The leafless trees an emblem stoodOf sorrow and despair.Beneath an aged oak ...
NO more let Europe's offspring boastSuperior sense and worth;Or fancy virtue is attach'dTo any spot of earth;Nor e'er suppose that ...
FOUR beggars at once! each imploring a poet,If the muses inspire, on their persons to show it;But the Helicon's distant--and ...
WHEN evening's pale light had retired from the plain,And night had the valley o'erspread;When the dew was converted to big ...
YOUNG Edward was a noble youth,A finer ne'er was seen;He was his aged gran-dam's pride,And lov'd by all the green.Yet ...
YOU request me, my friend, on true courage to write;Yet do you reflect, that whilst I indite,Or attempt to explain ...
THE night was dark, the hollow windsRush'd through the falling leaves;For autumn shed her yellow hue,And ting'd the verdant trees.Long ...
'TWAS on a gloomy sombre night,When clust'ring clouds had form'dInto a mass so densely thick,That Nature seem'd appall'd!The whistling winds ...
SAID a beau to his friend, who resides on Brook Green,"Oh, Charles! near your house I've a new beauty seen!Her ...
WHEN virtue and dignity jointly combine,Like the sun's radiant beams, more effulgent they shine;For when virtue is hid by Obscurity's ...
PERMIT a dull muse, my dear Charlotte, to say,The season approaches when Brook Green looks gay;Or in other terms, my ...
OH Death! insatiate archer! why on mePour forth thy vengeance with a shaft so keen?Why was no other victim mark'd ...
AH! why did no foreboding fear foretelThe dire misfortune which I now deplore?Why, dearest Charlotte, when I said farewell ,Did ...
ONCE more I'll endeavour to paint,In language which flows from the heart ,Those wishes , which make language faint,Those feelings ...
(In Imitation of Doctor Cotton's Fire-side.)THIS morn, dear Mary, were our handsUnited firm in Hymen's bands;Bands which to me are ...
THE worst of tortures fate can findTo lacerate the feeling mind,And rob the soul of rest,Is, when its adverse laws ...
COULD the cards, dear Louisa, which herald your name,Be endow'd with the pow'r of proclaiming your fame,At each door where ...
WHENE'ER, my friend, this lamp I see,My grateful thoughts will warm tow'rds thee;Not with a blue , or vap'rous light,But ...
My drowsy thoughts, by sleep refin'd,Salute the rising day;Death's torpid image o'er my mindHas now resign'd its sway.And as the ...
ENCLOS'D within a spot of earth,A form superior lies,Endow'd with talents great and rare,Humane, sincere, and wise!Oh, Pemberton! thy matchless ...
THIS crested pin, I heard you say,Was like a beam from fortune's ray,Portending some event that's kind,To soothe my griefs, ...
AGE, when adorn'd with innate worth,Affords the youthful race on earthA bright example--and a gleamNot ill compar'd with Cynthia's beam;Which ...
FIFTY more! my kind friend--and apologize too!Yet with form--let me ask, what has friendship to do?And such friendship as yours--flowing ...
FARNHAM! receive the mede of praise,An humble mede--whose meteor raysCannot illumine worth like thine;Worth , which with radiance divine,Displays itself ...
A SYLPH, my dear aunt, is the gift which I send,In the hope it will warm , and comfort my ...
THEE, verdant plant, with joy I greet,And welcome too my roof;Thy fragrant leaves appear more sweet,From being friendship's proof!And as ...
FRIENDSHIP! thou sweet, balsamic pow'r,Which soothes affliction's trying hour,And with a ray divineIllumes the dreary path of life,Checking resentment--healing strife,On ...
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