Banks Of The Thames. Winter. (Mrs. Walter Spencer Poems)
SCENES sadly soothing to the sorrowing heart,Here let me lingering on thy borders bend;And though nor Sun illume, nor flowers ...
SCENES sadly soothing to the sorrowing heart,Here let me lingering on thy borders bend;And though nor Sun illume, nor flowers ...
DEAR ROSE ! dear flower, unconscious as thou art,'Tis not the Zephyr agitates thy leaves,But the soft sigh of Love, ...
OH ! fare thee well, sweet Villa! whilst I breatheSuch sad presaging sighs, as seem to sayAdieu for ever!----on my ...
TASTE , Science, Genius, are ye ever fledFrom these lone halls, and with your votary dead?Must I in vain my ...
NE'ER can the lay that on my couch I breathe,Tell thee the gratitude my bosom feels;Nor, while disease and languor ...
SAY , when thy pensive brow, thy tearful eye,Bends o'er the classic shades that wave beneath,Does fancy bind for heroes ...
AH ! who can paint like me these lovely scenes?E'en though thy muse her sweetest gifts impart,Can witching Fancy in ...
So far from Joy had stray'd this drooping heart;It seem'd we sever'd--to embrace no more;And ere I pensive sought this ...
HERE, on these banks, which like another NilePour out their fertile flood, delay awhile.Through the deep vale it bends its ...
FROM Nature and her sweet communion torn,O say what hand unpitying placed me here?Without a breeze my fading form to ...
SWEET relic of the slowly-waning year,Who long with gentle, lingering, fond delay,Behind thy beauteous 'sociates still dost stay,As if my ...
ALAS ! pale drooping beauty! e'en on theeHis Muse essays insidious flattery!Thy virgin coldness feigning to adore,He'll steal the softest ...
FAIR lucid Moon! whose softly chasten'd lightBeams on the bosom of the sleepless wave,Ah! never day may hope to rival ...
LATE as I pass'd, methought upon the airSoft music floated, such as softens care!Awhile it seem'd of Philomela's strain,And yet ...
O CEASE ! forbear! that touching strain O cease!Those sounds o'er every thrilling nerve have power;They bring again that feeling, ...
NO flattery here with poison'd sweets I send,But Nature softly sueing for her friend;For while with flowers I dress'd each ...
THERE are who buskin'd stalk, whose whine or raveMight sleeping Nature wake from out her grave;There are, Thalia! who thy ...
ON THE FITTING UP OF THE NEW BATH THEATRE,WHICH WAS OF TOO GLARING A RED: MRS, EDWINTHERE WAS THE FAVOURITE ...
ILL -fated Charlotte, whose enlighten'd mindExalted Genius by true taste refined;For whom the Loves that hail'd thy natal mornWove wreaths ...
WHEN THE HEART IS OPPRESSED WITH SECRET SORROW.ALAS ! then, is this wounded mindBecome unfeeling and unkind?Can sorrow, disappointment, grief,Find ...
DENIED upon thy sacred urn to mourn,To breathe the sigh, or pour affection's tear,Alas! from earthly ties thy spirit's torn,Nor ...
IN Scottish garb, and shepherd's humble guise,At length the Roscius met these longing eyes.Anxious to judge if fashion or if ...
PATIENCE , pale maid! that near my beating heartDost drooping sit, and oft with gentle handWilt, softly stealing o'er my ...
IF e'er the face with truth impartThe faithful emblem of the heart,Ah! wherefore then is thine so changed?Where late the ...
TO whom, alas! to whom shall this full heartIts bursting anguish or its joys impart?To whom, but to the soul ...
VAUNT not, thou blooming sweet, love-tinted Rose,O'er whose rich beauties each wild Zephyr blows,Thy charms unequall'd, or unrivall'd power;Though Joy ...
I COME the harbinger of Peace.Let Discord's jealous bickerings cease,That flow, perhaps, from hearts too warm;And though the Olive's wonted ...
Suspended to a tree in the midst of an intricate wood ofsingularly romantic beauty, as a direction to the Hermitagehid ...
O YE ! who flaunt it in yon gaudy crowd,Where blend the gay, the humble, and the proud,Where Fashion's sons ...
O SAY , enthusiast! does thy Muse aloneBid PATRIOT brows its blushing honours own?Does lovely Liberty e'er tune thy lyre?Do ...
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