On The Regret Of Youth (Matilda Betham Poems)
Before a rose is fully blown, The outward leaves announce decay; So, ere the spring of Youth is flown, Its tiny pleasures die ...
Matilda Betham Poems (90 Poems)
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 ...
The Grandfather’s Departure (Matilda Betham Poems)
The Old Man press'd Palemon's hand; To Lucy nodded with a smile; Kiss'd all the little ones around; Then clos'd the gate, and ...
In Memory Of Mr. Agostino Isola, Of Cambridge, Who Died On The 5th Of June, 1797 (Matilda Betham Poems)
AWAKE, O Gratitude! nor let the tearsOf selfish Sorrow smother up thy voice,When it should speak of a departed friend.A ...
Henry, On The Departure Of His Wife From Calcutta (Matilda Betham Poems)
Long is thy passage o'er the main, And native air alone can save! No friend thy weakness will sustain, But India is, for ...
To The Nuns Of Bodney (Matilda Betham Poems)
YE holy women, say! will ye acceptThe passing tribute of a humble friend?Stranger indeed to you and to your faith,But ...
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 ...
To A Young Gentleman (Matilda Betham Poems)
Dear boy, when you meet with a rose, Admire you the thorns very much? Or like you to play with a ball, When ...
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 ...
Vignette – XXV (Matilda Betham Poems)
Fear has to do with sacred things,And more than all from Pity springs.Two school-girls once--the time is past,But ever will ...
On The Eve Of Departure From O—— (Matilda Betham Poems)
LOUD beats the rain! The hollow groanOf rushing winds I hear,That with a deep and sullen moan,Pass slowly by the ...
Vignette – XIII (Matilda Betham Poems)
Yes! I can suffer, sink with pain,With anguish I can ill sustain;Till not a hope has strength to spring,Till scarce ...
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 ...
Rhapsody (Matilda Betham Poems)
LO! here a cloud comes sailing, richly cladIn royal purple, which the parting beamsOf bounteous Phoebus edge with tints of ...
Fragment 2 (Matilda Betham Poems)
WHERE yonder mossy ruins lie,And desolation strikes the eye,A noble mansion, high and fair,Once rear'd its turrets in the air.There ...
Vignette – II (Matilda Betham Poems)
Lucy, I think not of thy beauty, I praise not each peculiar grace; To see thee in the path of duty, And with ...
To Simplicity (Matilda Betham Poems)
FAIR village nymph, ah! may I meetThy pleasing form where'er I stray!With open air and converse sweet,Still cheer my undiscover'd ...
Song II (Matilda Betham Poems)
SET TO MUSIC BY MR. VOIGHT. What do I love? A polish'd mind, A temper cheerful, meek, and kind; A graceful air, unsway'd ...
Sonetto. Di Giovanni Della Casa (Matilda Betham Poems)
Oh sonno, oh della cheta, umida, ombrosaNotte placido figlio; oh de' mortaliEgri conforto, oblio dolce de' mali,S(Matilda Betham)
Another, (Matilda Betham Poems)
WRITTEN EARLIER. Adieu to old England! adieu to my friends! Though fortune and fame I pursue, On thus looking around me, I cannot ...
Vignette – III (Matilda Betham Poems)
THE ARTISAN.This twilight gloom. This lone retreat--This silence to my soul is sweet!Awhile escap'd from toil and strife,And all the ...
Vignette – XVII (Matilda Betham Poems)
LINES_Sent to a Brother on his leaving England_.May 2, 1816. --------FANCIFUL BOUQUET. --------_Hopes_ all glowing, _Wishes_ rare, _Blessings_ mixed with many a _Prayer_,Flowers ...
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 ...
The Old Man’s Farewell (Matilda Betham Poems)
Farewell, my pilgrim guest, farewell, A few days since thou wert unknown, None shall thy future fortunes tell, But sweetly have the moments ...
A Sailor’s Song (Matilda Betham Poems)
SET TO MUSIC BY MR. WALSH. I ponder many a silent hour, On friends belov'd when far at sea, And, tell me, have ...
To Mrs. T. Fancourt (Matilda Betham Poems)
I love not yon gay, painted flower, Of bold and coarsely blended dye, But one, whose nicely varied power May long detain the ...
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 ...
Song I (Matilda Betham Poems)
Thrice lovely babe! thus hush'd to rest, Upon thy warrior father's breast! Avails it, that his eyes behold, Thy rosy cheeks, thy locks ...