Dreams Of Heaven (Mary Jane Jewsbury Poems)
Bright must they be, for there are none that die,And none that weep, and none that say farewell.Mrs. Hemans.LEAVES may ...
Bright must they be, for there are none that die,And none that weep, and none that say farewell.Mrs. Hemans.LEAVES may ...
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 ...
A rose hedged with a briar.Drummond.Alas! what else is love but sorrow.Byron.THERE is softness in the dew;And in starlight trembling ...
THE BURDEN OF THE SEA.Isaiah, XXIII.THE sea hath spoken! Hear, O Earth! Where everlasting hills arise;And all the host of heaven, stand ...
Queen of all harmonious things,Dancing words, and speaking strings.Cowley.SPIRIT, or Power, or Spell, or whatsoe'erOf name beseems thee best, Ethereal ...
SUNSET AND NIGHT. BEAUTIFUL! O beautiful!When his blaze of glory done,In the Tropics sinks the Sun!Not, as at his noon, untendedBy ...
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 ...
THE OUTWARD-BOUND SHIPShe is on her way, a goodly ship, With her tacklings loosed, her pilot gone;Behind, beneath, around, the deep, And ...
Is not my light like that holier lightThat Heaven sheds over life's path?L. E. L."HOME! home! vain wanderer, why that ...
THE HAVEN GAINED.Inscribed to Captain C. Biden, Commander of the ship Victory.And we are parting, glorious Sea! And thou art anchored, ...
Is there no armour of the soul whereinI may array my thoughts and vanquish Death?It may not be: my hour ...
A light, a darkness, mingling, each with each,Rogers.SUN, ever guidingWhat never knows rest,Vast giant stridingFrom east unto west;Eye piercing and ...
Ah! well beseems,Us, the strong insects of an April morn,Steady and constant as the thistle's downWhen winds are on it ...
Jeremiah xxi. 9.YES the depth of gloom is over,Light is breaking on my soul,And the long benighted rover,Faintly views the ...
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 ...
Weep not, my mother, weep not, I am blest,But must leave heaven if I return to thee;For I am where ...
The things we enjoy are passing, and we are passing who enjoy them.Abp. Leighton.I ASKED the stars in the pomp ...
Psalm cxvi. 7.CALL it not liberty this ceaseless ranging,The universe a prison were for thee;Call it not happiness this reckless ...
We'll bring the first born of our flowers,To kiss thy feet and crown thy head.Crashaw.JESUS whom creation ownsGracious, mighty, kind, ...
Didst thou ever see a lark in a cage? Such is the soul in the body. This world is like ...
Thou mustAcknowledge that more loving dustNe'er wept beneath the skies.Heaven and Earth.O WERE my Love a bee,I would not chide ...
What deaths we suffer ere we die!Logan.'TIS not that I was happy as the bird upon the bough,'Tis not that ...
Ezekiel vii. 16.ART thou an emblem, gentle, guileless bird,Of human hearts lamenting sin and strife?And gladly as thy low sweet ...
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