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 ...
Magnolia! "Pale city of the dead,"Adown thy gravelled walks I tread,Thy marble pillars looming high,Thy polished shafts around me lie.With ...
With hands all reddened and sore,With back and shoulders low bent,She stands all day, and part of the nightTill her ...
Columbia, all hail!May thy banner ne'er be furledTill Liberty, with her beauteous rays,Enlighten all the world.Columbia, to theeFrom every clime ...
The earth was young, the world was fair,And balmy breezes filled the air,Nature reposed in solitude,When God pronounced it "very ...
'Twas sunset's hour, the glorious dayHad in its beauty passed away;The sun had bathed in golden dyesThis Southern land of ...
"Cast down your bucket where you are,"From burning sands or Polar starFrom where the iceberg rears its headOr where the ...
Sister darling, ope the window, let the balmy air oncemoreFan my flushed and throbbing brow as in the happydays of ...
Maiden —River, why in ceaseless flowMust you ripple to and fro?Stop a while.Lonely on thy bank I stand,On your shining, ...
'Twas a cloudless morn and the sun shone bright,And dewdrops sparkled clear;And the hills and the vales of this Western ...
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 ...
With thy rugged, ice-girt shore,Draped in everlasting snow,Thou'rt enthroned a queen.Crown of moss and lichen grey,Frosted o'er with ocean spray,All ...
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 ...
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 ...
On a starry, wintry night,Frosty and cold was the air,And the lowly vale where Bethlehem stood,Looked bleak, and barren and ...
Mightier than the sword thou art,Thou can'st pierce like venomed dart,Time and space count naught with thee,Leagues of land or ...
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 ...
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 ...
I'm sitting by the hearthstone now,And my heart is lone and drear;It seems as though the autumn blastHad left its ...
Oh! surely 'tis a theme sublimeThat stirs my soul to-day;Awake then, muse nor slumber more,Till sung the wondrous lay.My song ...
O! sing ye a dirge for the loved and the lost,That have found them a home 'neath the coral reefsdeep;That ...
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