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 Sense & Perception (20 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 ...
The Lay Of Marie – Canto Third (Matilda Betham Poems)
"Careless alike who went or came, I seldom ask'd the stranger's name, When such a being came in view As eagerly the question ...
The Old Sheperd’s Recollections (Matilda Betham Poems)
Low, heavy clouds are hanging on the hills, And half-impatient of the sun's approach, Shake sullenly their cold and languid wings! Oh! it ...
The Outlaw (Matilda Betham Poems)
BEFORE the fair Aurora spreadHer azure mantle o'er the skies,While sleep its pleasing influence shed,On grateful mortals weary eyes.Emerg'd from ...
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 ...
Arthur And Albina (Matilda Betham Poems)
AH me! the yellow western sky turns pale,And leaves the cheerless sons of earth to mourn;And yet I hear not ...
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 ...
Fragment 3 (Matilda Betham Poems)
A Pilgrim weary, toil-subdued, I reach'd a country, strange and rude, And trembled, lest approaching eve My hope of shelter might deceive; When I ...
The Fraternal Duel (Matilda Betham Poems)
'OH! hide me from the sun! I loath the sight!I cannot bear his bright, obtrusive ray:Nought is so dreadful to ...
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! ...
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 ...
L’Homme De L’Ennui (Matilda Betham Poems)
Forlornly I wander, forlornly I sigh, And droop my head sadly, I cannot tell why: When the first breeze of morning blows ...
Reflections Occasioned By The Death Of Friends (Matilda Betham Poems)
My happiness was once a goodly tree, Which promis'd every day to grow more fair, And rear'd its lofty branches in the ...
Written On Whitsun-Monday 1795 (Matilda Betham Poems)
AT an open window sitting,On this day of mirth and glee,'Cross a flow'ry vista flitting,Many passing forms I see.Ah! lovely ...
The Mother (Matilda Betham Poems)
"And beats my heart again with joy! And dances now my spirit light! The skiff that holds my darling boy This moment burst ...
Vignette – I (Matilda Betham Poems)
If writing Journals were my task, From cottagers to kings--A little book I'd only ask, And fill it full of wings!Each pair ...
Vignette – XVI (Matilda Betham Poems)
To MRS. A.An Hour was before me, no creature more bright,More airy, more joyous, e'er sprang on my sight.To catch ...
Fragment 1 (Matilda Betham Poems)
They, ere he left them, had attain'd their primeAnd were less alter'd by the hand of Time;But, the slim youth ...