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 ...
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 ...
O blessed well of love! O flower of grace!O glorious morning star! O lamp of light!Most lively image of thy ...
ADDRESS TO THE DEEP.WONDROUS, fearful restless Sea,What have I to do with thee?Thou so strong, and I so weak,Ev'n when ...
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 ...
The curtain's drawn look there and you shall spyThe faded god of your idolatry.Davenant.WORLD thou art old and grey!World thou ...
Oh! 'tis the curse of absence, that our loveBecomes too sad, too tender, too profound,For all our far off friends.Wilson.SUMMER ...
The things we enjoy are passing, and we are passing who enjoy them.Abp. Leighton.I ASKED the stars in the pomp ...
Psalm lv. 6.I ask not wingsThat I may flee to bright and far off isles,Where nature ever smiles,Those isles of ...
Jeremiah x. 6.IN the dark winter of affliction's hour,When summer friends and pleasures haste away,And the wrecked heart perceives how ...
Didst thou ever see a lark in a cage? Such is the soul in the body. This world is like ...
The depth saith, it is not in me; and the sea saith, it is not with me. It cannot be ...
Beyond the clouds and beyond the tomb,It is there, it is there my child.Mrs. Hemans.MEN with passions earth deform,Ocean is ...
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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