Life (Joanna Baillie Poems)
THE ministering spirits from aboveDescend with energy creative fraught,They breathe on nature with the breath of love,And lo! she wakens ...
THE ministering spirits from aboveDescend with energy creative fraught,They breathe on nature with the breath of love,And lo! she wakens ...
AH, to be by Mooni now! Where the great dark hills of wonder, Scarred with storm and cleft asunder By ...
As I was saying . . . (No, thank you; I never take cream with my tea;Cows weren't allowed in ...
PART IAway up on the River aux Lievres, That is foaming and surging always,And from rock to rock leaping through rapids, Which ...
The camp of high-class spielers, Who sneered in summer dress,And doo-dah dilettante, And scornful "venuses"-House agents, and storekeepers, All eager they to "bleed"-The bards ...
LIKE fairy groupes beneath the forest shade,With moonlight faintly scatter'd o'er the scene,In long perspective stretching to the view,The shadowy ...
A scene, which 'wildered fancy viewedIn the soul's coldest solitude,With that same scene when peaceful loveFlings rapture's colour o'er the ...
WHEN evening's pale light had retired from the plain,And night had the valley o'erspread;When the dew was converted to big ...
Thou grave old Time Piece, many a time and oft I've been your debtor for the time of day; And every time ...
I.A dancing shape, an image gay,To haunt, to startle, and waylay.And yet a Woman, still and bright,With something of an ...
THE pine-trees lift their dark bewildered eyes--Or so I deem--up to the clouded skies;No breeze, no faintest breeze, is heard ...
BOCCACE alone is not my only source;T'another shop I now shall have recourse;Though, certainly, this famed Italian witHas many stories ...
To-day the plant by Williams setIts summer bloom discloses;The wilding sweethrier of his prayersIs crowned with cultured roses.Once more the ...
They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care;They pursued it with forks and hope;They threatened its life with ...
The world is full of orphans: firstly, those Who are so in the strict sense of the phrase(But many a lonely ...
WITH a cold and wintry noon-light.On its roofs and steeples shed,Shadows weaving with t e sunlightFrom the gray sky overhead,Broadly, ...
I. Enchanting power! whose influence blest O'er Nature reigns with pleasing sway, Whose mild command each gentler breast Enraptur'd glories to obey: O give my ...
PART I.-Remembrance.THOSE days of youth I call to mind,Like dream by night away are fled,Or rose that's pluck'd, which soon ...
All you who turn the sturdy soil, Or ply the loom with daily toil, And lowly on through life turmoil For scanty fare, Attend, ...
SIR:- You complain that I have asserted that a partiality for monarchy appeared in your conduct. This fact you deny, ...
THOU art confused, my beloved, at, seeing the thousandfold unionShown in this flowery troop, over the garden dispers'd;any a name ...
This is an introduction to the Japanese Zen poet Taigu Ryoken known for his beautiful almost seer-like poetry. He revelled ...
Ye Thirty noble Nations Confederate in One!That keep your starry stations Around the Western Sun,—I have a glorious mission, And must obey the ...
I always was a remarkable child; so old for my age, and such a sensitive nature!-Mamma often says so.And I'm ...
They lifted her out of a story Too sordid and selfish by far,They left me the innocent glory Of love that was pure ...
THEE finds me in the garden, Hannah,-come in! 'T is kind of theeTo wait until the Friends were gone, who ...
The shades of the Night are now fading away,And Morn in her balmy effulgence is seen ;The lark pours his ...
Our boat is asleep on Serchio's stream,Its sails are folded like thoughts in a dream,The helm sways idly, hither and ...
When life's first dawn breaks on the raptured view,And smiles each various scene so bright and new,The Passions, thronging round ...
NAUHAUGHT, the Indian deacon, who of oldDwelt, poor but blameless, where his narrowing CapeStretches its shrunk arm out to all ...
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