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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
I sing of thee; 'tis sweet to singOf such a fair and gladsome thing!Allan Cunninghame.NOT for thy loveliness though rare,(Few ...
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 ...
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 ...
Thought from the bosom's inmost cell,By magic tints made visible.Montgomery.I HEARD last night a lovely lute,I heard it in the ...
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 lv. 6.I ask not wingsThat I may flee to bright and far off isles,Where nature ever smiles,Those isles of ...
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 ...
Hosea xiv. 7.O FAIR the lily grows,No emblem meet for me,Its snowy lustre throwsReproach on all I see;But if wheat's ...
What deaths we suffer ere we die!Logan.'TIS not that I was happy as the bird upon the bough,'Tis not that ...
Proverbs xviii. 14.WIND play o'er my brow,Cool it with thy breath,Lest within it nowFever turn to death;Leave that bending rose,Bright ...
Oh! by that little word,How many thoughts are stirred!Miss Bowles.The rose to its summer splendour,Leaves to their first bright hue,Do ...
Job xiii. 5.WHOM see I? Not the God I sought,With vague imaginings of mind;A Deity of formless thought,A God no ...
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