The First Sacrifice (Mary Jane Jewsbury Poems)
PART I.A small dell, open on one side to the surrounding country. An altar-mound of green turf. Adam and Eve ...
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 ...
THE EDEN OF THE SEA.Inscribed to the Rev. B. Bailey, Senior Chaplain of Ceylon.A dream! a dream! Our billowy home Before ...
SUNSET AND NIGHT. BEAUTIFUL! O beautiful!When his blaze of glory done,In the Tropics sinks the Sun!Not, as at his noon, untendedBy ...
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 ...
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 ...
Jeremiah xxi. 9.YES the depth of gloom is over,Light is breaking on my soul,And the long benighted rover,Faintly views the ...
TO AN INFANT AFAR.THOU art sleeping or at play, Happy one! pretty one!Laughing, lisping, far away,Heedless of the salt-sea spray, Happy one! ...
The things we enjoy are passing, and we are passing who enjoy them.Abp. Leighton.I ASKED the stars in the pomp ...
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 ...
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 ...
Beyond the clouds and beyond the tomb,It is there, it is there my child.Mrs. Hemans.MEN with passions earth deform,Ocean is ...
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