Uranne (Mary Weston Fordham Poems)
In a far off hamlet near the seaWhere billows oft, in days of storm, andNights of darkness rush reckless to ...
In a far off hamlet near the seaWhere billows oft, in days of storm, andNights of darkness rush reckless to ...
Columbia, all hail!May thy banner ne'er be furledTill Liberty, with her beauteous rays,Enlighten all the world.Columbia, to theeFrom every clime ...
'Twas sunset's hour, the glorious dayHad in its beauty passed away;The sun had bathed in golden dyesThis Southern land of ...
'Twas a cloudless morn and the sun shone bright,And dewdrops sparkled clear;And the hills and the vales of this Western ...
I am sitting sad and lonelyWhere I've often sat before,And I am musing, fondly musingOf my Florence who pass'd o'er.Pass'd ...
O, insatiable monster! Could'st thou notIn pity turn aside thy venomed shaftFrom her my gifted, darling friend?Has sympathy within thy ...
Come back to me, O ye, my children;Come back to the home as of yore;As my longing eye peers through ...
Oh! waves in the sunlight gleaming,Oh! billows with ceaseless roar,Bring back to this aching heart of mine,The laddie you bore ...
On a starry, wintry night,Frosty and cold was the air,And the lowly vale where Bethlehem stood,Looked bleak, and barren and ...
Lady with thine eyes of beautyRivaling cerulean flowers,Where the love-beams seem to linger,Throughout youth's bright, sunny hours.With thy smile of ...
Rest thee aged pilgrim, now thy toils are o'er;Peacefully thou'st landed over Jordan's shore;Safe from all the sorrows, free from ...
O! sing ye a dirge for the loved and the lost,That have found them a home 'neath the coral reefsdeep;That ...
Why did the sun his beams concealAs if unwilling to revealThat deed of mankind on the dayWhen Jesus, at the ...
When the Sabbath was declining, just at twilight'smystic hour,Left the "Upper Courts" an angel, sent to cull oursweetest flower,Not in ...
Oh! Erin my country, my ancestor's home!Impelled by my wants, I, from thee, had to roam;And now my heart yearneth, ...
You may speak of a grave in a distant land,Or of one 'neath ocean's foam,Where the dolphins play o'er the ...
As, I sit by the ruddy oak fire,And feel the grateful glow,Come mem'ries sweet of a rustic cot,That stood near ...
Carolina mourns to-day. For he, the giftedSon of her adoption, is no more. The voiceThat stirred the bosoms of her ...
Oh! surely for thee were the gates ajar,As thy chariot onward sped,When with brightened eye and youth renewed,Triumphant thou did'st ...
My Mother! With the angels now,Life's race completely run;The Pilgrim's cross is laid aside,The Christian's crown is won.Full two-score years ...
Will you leave the hills of Scotland?Your childhood's happy home,To brave the dangers of the deep,In foreign lands to roam—Say, ...
By the Rivers of Babylon we mournfully bent,With "harps on the willows" and venture all rent,For burdened by sorrow and ...
Just as the twilight's holy hourIn quietude so deep,Was hushing nature to repose,Our "Charlie" fell asleep.Just in the bloom of ...
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