The Lay Of Marie – Canto First (Matilda Betham Poems)
The guests are met, the feast is near, But Marie does not yet appear! And to her vacant seat on high Is lifted ...
Matilda Betham Poems on Home (17 Poems)
The Lay Of Marie – Canto Second (Matilda Betham Poems)
Some, fearing Marie's tale was o'er, Lamented that they heard no more; While Brehan, from her broken lay, Portended what she yet might ...
Cen’lin, Prince Of Mercia (Matilda Betham Poems)
WHEN Britain many chiefs obey'd,And seven Saxon princes sway'd,The Mercian monarch, fam'd afar,In peace respected, fear'd in war,Favour'd by heav'n ...
Edgar And Ellen (Matilda Betham Poems)
"Arrest thy steps! On these sad plains, Fair dame, no farther go! But listen to the martial strains, Whose wildness speaks of woe! Hark! ...
Vignette – XVIII (Matilda Betham Poems)
_Written jointly with a particular Friend, after a conversationsimilar to the subject, with the Damon of the Story_. --------Believing love was ...
Vignette – XXVI (Matilda Betham Poems)
ELEGY ON EDWARD BETHAM,_Lost in the Duchess of Gordon East Indiaman, off the Cape of Good Hope_. --------Lovely as are the ...
The Terrors Of Guilt (Matilda Betham Poems)
YON coward, with the streaming hair,And visage, madden'd to despair,With step convuls'd, unsettled eye,And bosom lab'ring with a sigh,Is Guilt! ...
Vignette – XXI (Matilda Betham Poems)
LINES._Written for a Young Gentleman to speak at the Audit at St. Saviour'sSchool, Southwark, after the Battle of Trafalgar_. --------While others, ...
Lines To Mr. Radcliffe, On First Reading The Mysteries Of Udolpho (Matilda Betham Poems)
Enchantress! whose transcendant pow'rs, With ease, the massy fabric raise;-- Beneath whose sway the tempest low'rs, Or lucid stream meaend'ring plays;-- Accept the tribute ...
Written April The 18th, 1796 (Matilda Betham Poems)
THE beauteous queen of social love,Descending from the realms above,Through the wide space of ether flew,With care this little world ...
To M.I. (Matilda Betham Poems)
THOU, Margaret, lov'st the secret shade,The murmuring brook, or tow'ring tree;The village cot within the glade,And lonely walk have charms ...
Vignette – IV (Matilda Betham Poems)
"Come, Edmund, now the sun goes down, Thy many wanderings tell!Say, after all thine eyes have seen, If home appears so well!""So ...
Song–Distance From The Place Of Our Nativity (Matilda Betham Poems)
Since I married Palemon, though happy my lot, Though my garden is pleasant, and lightsome my cot, Though love's smile, like a ...
Vignette – XIV (Matilda Betham Poems)
TO MR. AND MRS. EVERARD,_On their only Son's being in the Navy_, 1811. --------Talent and beauty, and the heart's warm glow,Gilding ...
Written In Zimmermanns Solitude. (Matilda Betham Poems)
HAIL, melancholy sage! whose thoughtful eye,Shrunk from the mere spectator's careless gaze,And, in retirement sought the social smile,The heart-endearing aspect, ...
The Heir (Matilda Betham Poems)
See yon tall stripling! how he droops forlorn! How slow his pace! how spiritless his eye! Like a dark cloud in summer's ...
To A Llangollen Rose, (Matilda Betham Poems)
THE DAY AFTER IT HAD BEEN GIVEN BY MISS PONSONBY. Soft blushing flow'r! my bosom grieves, To view thy sadly drooping leaves: For, ...