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 ...
O Earth, adore creative power,That made and gave to man as dower,This world of beauty rare,With hills and vales of ...
The earth was young, the world was fair,And balmy breezes filled the air,Nature reposed in solitude,When God pronounced it "very ...
Sister darling, ope the window, let the balmy air oncemoreFan my flushed and throbbing brow as in the happydays of ...
Ah! the year is slowly dying,And the wind in tree-top sighing,Chant his requiem.Thick and fast the leaves are falling,High in ...
I took up the burden of life anewWhen she, the pure-hearted, died;When the golden cord was rent in twain,And she ...
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 ...
Come and listen to the chimingOf St. Michael's merry bells,When the joyous Christmas morning,All of Bethlehem's story tells.When they sweetly ...
Come back to me, O ye, my children;Come back to the home as of yore;As my longing eye peers through ...
Just look, 'tis a quarter past six, love—And not even the fires are caught;Well, you know I must be at ...
Oh! waves in the sunlight gleaming,Oh! billows with ceaseless roar,Bring back to this aching heart of mine,The laddie you bore ...
When the heavens with stars are gleamingLike a diadem of light,And the moon's pale rays are streaming,Decking earth with radiance ...
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 ...
Come Peace, on snowy pinions,Come, nestle like a dove;Encircle earth's dominionsWith harmony and love.Let anger, pride and malice,And strife forgotten ...
O come to me in my dreams love!When the world is wrapped in sleep,And the silver moon like virgin queen,Her ...
Why did the sun his beams concealAs if unwilling to revealThat deed of mankind on the dayWhen Jesus, at the ...
Can I forget thee? No, while mem'ry lasts,Thine image like a talisman entwined,Around my heart by sacred friendship's tiesRemains unchanged, ...
'Tis said but a name is friendship,Soulless, and shallow, and vain;That the human heart ne'er beats in response,Or echoes sweet ...
I'll think of thee, mine own, dear oneAs morn's first blushing rayDiffuses light o'er the dim earth—Turns darkness into day.I'll ...
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 ...
When the Autumn's breezesWere sweeping o'er the land,Came the mighty mandateFrom the upper land.Now from pain and anguishThou hast found ...
Sleep, love sleep,The night winds sigh,In soft lullaby.The Lark is at restWith the dew on her breast.So close those dear ...
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