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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
THE OUTWARD-BOUND SHIPShe is on her way, a goodly ship, With her tacklings loosed, her pilot gone;Behind, beneath, around, the deep, 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 ...
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 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, ...
A NEW YEAR'S DAY SONG.THERE is wintry cold and snow At home, on mount or lea;With us, 'tis summer's glow, As we ...
Is there no armour of the soul whereinI may array my thoughts and vanquish Death?It may not be: my hour ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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