Hamlet On His Brier (Mary Jane Jewsbury Poems)
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 ...
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 ...
Once on a charger there was laid,And brought before a royal maid,As price of attitude and grace,A guiltless head, 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 ...
Ah! well beseems,Us, the strong insects of an April morn,Steady and constant as the thistle's downWhen winds are on it ...
Jeremiah xxi. 9.YES the depth of gloom is over,Light is breaking on my soul,And the long benighted rover,Faintly views the ...
Oh! 'tis the curse of absence, that our loveBecomes too sad, too tender, too profound,For all our far off friends.Wilson.SUMMER ...
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 ...
Weep not, my mother, weep not, I am blest,But must leave heaven if I return to thee;For I am where ...
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 ...
The breeze blew fresh 'twas free; he was not so.Mary Howitt.BRIGHT roses round thy cottage twine,And bending from the trees,Gay ...
For to itself it oft so diverse grew,That still it seemed the same, and still it seemed a new.Giles Fletcher.SEEK ...
THE VOYAGER'S REGRET.THEY are thinking far awayOf their loved ones on the water;The mother of her son,The father of his ...
There are some folks whom oft we see,With such a taste for pedigree,The moment a fresh face is found,Enquiring whispers ...
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 ...
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 ...
We'll bring the first born of our flowers,To kiss thy feet and crown thy head.Crashaw.JESUS whom creation ownsGracious, mighty, kind, ...
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 ...
New times, new climes, new men, new arts, but still,The same old tears, old crimes, and oldest ill.Byron.SIN thou hast ...
O 'tis the heart that magnifies this lifeMaking a truth and beauty of her own.Wordsworth.I AM come back to my ...
Nature's self's thy Ganymede.Cowley.EVERY bud possessingThat the garden yields,Yet in search of blessingFound in distant fields,Wild inconstant bee,What so false ...
Thou mustAcknowledge that more loving dustNe'er wept beneath the skies.Heaven and Earth.O WERE my Love a bee,I would not chide ...
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 ...
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