Poetical Portraits (Mary Jane Jewsbury Poems)
I.A dancing shape, an image gay,To haunt, to startle, and waylay.And yet a Woman, still and bright,With something of an ...
I.A dancing shape, an image gay,To haunt, to startle, and waylay.And yet a Woman, still and bright,With something of an ...
I am a little world made cunningly.Donne.COME, let me sound thy depths, unquiet seaOf thought and passion; let thy wild ...
THE EDEN OF THE SEA.Inscribed to the Rev. B. Bailey, Senior Chaplain of Ceylon.A dream! a dream! Our billowy home Before ...
Queen of all harmonious things,Dancing words, and speaking strings.Cowley.SPIRIT, or Power, or Spell, or whatsoe'erOf name beseems thee best, Ethereal ...
MY SEA-HERMITAGE.Inscribed to Capt. C. Biden,E.I.C.S. Commander of the Ship Victory.Swinging in my cot at ease,Yet a wanderer o'er the ...
Is not my light like that holier lightThat Heaven sheds over life's path?L. E. L."HOME! home! vain wanderer, why that ...
THE SPIRIT OF THE CAPE.CHANGE the vision. Now no more Gorgeous smile both sea and sky;Sunset mimics now no shore Where bright ...
Yes, for him the victor,Sing but low, sing low!A soft, sad, miserere chaunt,For a soul about to go!Mrs. Hemans.GO to ...
Why should a tear be in an old man's eye?Wordsworth.I passPleasantly on: the road leads to the skies,And mine's a ...
Oh! 'tis the curse of absence, that our loveBecomes too sad, too tender, too profound,For all our far off friends.Wilson.SUMMER ...
Yea, he hath finished!For him there is no longer any futureHis life is bright.No ominous hourKnocks at his door with ...
Is there no name on earthApt to contain the ocean of man's will?Love, honour, friendship, are they nothing worth?Nought.Anonymous.I LOOK ...
For to itself it oft so diverse grew,That still it seemed the same, and still it seemed a new.Giles Fletcher.SEEK ...
Oh! a haunted heart is a weight to bear!Mrs. Hemans.My brow is burningAnd my heart is yearningWith wishes infinite, and ...
Then all gave way mind, passion, pride.Croly."A BOON a boon thou noble queen,"A suppliant kneeling said,"There's one doth crave a ...
Written At MidnightThus, without life, how sweet in life to lie!Thus, without dying, oh! how blest to die!I HAVE heard ...
We'll bring the first born of our flowers,To kiss thy feet and crown thy head.Crashaw.JESUS whom creation ownsGracious, mighty, kind, ...
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