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 am a little world made cunningly.Donne.COME, let me sound thy depths, unquiet seaOf thought and passion; let thy wild ...
Brave beauteous pair! if e'er indeedYour names were clothed in mortal weed;If ye are more than lovely gleams,Whose dwelling is ...
THE EDEN OF THE SEA.Inscribed to the Rev. B. Bailey, Senior Chaplain of Ceylon.A dream! a dream! Our billowy home Before ...
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 ...
I would some instruction draw,And raise pleasure to the height,Through the meanest object's sight.By the murmur of a spring,Or the ...
O blessed well of love! O flower of grace!O glorious morning star! O lamp of light!Most lively image of thy ...
In gloom and thunder,That day of wonderShall burst unlooked for in the midst of life,When bells are ringing,And maidens singing,And ...
Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise,To scorn delights and live laborious days.Milton.I.O MOCKERY to dream of ...
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 ...
Is there no armour of the soul whereinI may array my thoughts and vanquish Death?It may not be: my hour ...
The curtain's drawn look there and you shall spyThe faded god of your idolatry.Davenant.WORLD thou art old and grey!World thou ...
A light, a darkness, mingling, each with each,Rogers.SUN, ever guidingWhat never knows rest,Vast giant stridingFrom east unto west;Eye piercing and ...
I sing of thee; 'tis sweet to singOf such a fair and gladsome thing!Allan Cunninghame.NOT for thy loveliness though rare,(Few ...
Ah! well beseems,Us, the strong insects of an April morn,Steady and constant as the thistle's downWhen winds are on it ...
Yea, he hath finished!For him there is no longer any futureHis life is bright.No ominous hourKnocks at his door with ...
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! ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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