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 ...
PART I.A small dell, open on one side to the surrounding country. An altar-mound of green turf. Adam and Eve ...
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 SUNKEN ROCK.A gentle ship was sailing Upon the Indian seas,O lovely looked she sailing, So fair were wave and breeze:Yet sunken ...
Brave beauteous pair! if e'er indeedYour names were clothed in mortal weed;If ye are more than lovely gleams,Whose dwelling is ...
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 ...
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 ...
O blessed well of love! O flower of grace!O glorious morning star! O lamp of light!Most lively image of thy ...
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 ...
In gloom and thunder,That day of wonderShall burst unlooked for in the midst of life,When bells are ringing,And maidens singing,And ...
Sainted spot,With peace and love and hope imbued!Alaric A. Watts.WHY art thou precious, fane obscure,Undecked by nature, art, or pride,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 HAVEN GAINED.Inscribed to Captain C. Biden, Commander of the ship Victory.And we are parting, glorious Sea! And thou art anchored, ...
When science from creation's faceEnchantment's veil withdraws,What lovely visions yield their placeTo cold material laws!Campbell.FANCY, thou art a waking dream,For ...
Ah! see the virgin rose, how sweetly sheDoth first peep forth with bashful modesty,That fairer seems the less ye see ...
A light, a darkness, mingling, each with each,Rogers.SUN, ever guidingWhat never knows rest,Vast giant stridingFrom east unto west;Eye piercing and ...
THE SPIRIT OF THE CAPE.CHANGE the vision. Now no more Gorgeous smile both sea and sky;Sunset mimics now no shore Where bright ...
I sing of thee; 'tis sweet to singOf such a fair and gladsome thing!Allan Cunninghame.NOT for thy loveliness though rare,(Few ...
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 ...
From Retsch's OutlinesBeauty, wealth,Might, valour, wisdom, mingled and absorbedIn one cold similarity of dust!Milman.THERE lies he, as in sleep reclined,A ...
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 ...
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 ...
The breeze blew fresh 'twas free; he was not so.Mary Howitt.BRIGHT roses round thy cottage twine,And bending from the trees,Gay ...
Psalm cxvi. 7.CALL it not liberty this ceaseless ranging,The universe a prison were for thee;Call it not happiness this reckless ...
Psalm lv. 6.I ask not wingsThat I may flee to bright and far off isles,Where nature ever smiles,Those isles of ...
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