To A Bereaved Mother (John Quincy Adams Poems)
Sure, to the mansions of the blestWhen infant innocence ascends,Some angel, brighter than the rest,The spotless spirit's flight attends.On wings ...
Sure, to the mansions of the blestWhen infant innocence ascends,Some angel, brighter than the rest,The spotless spirit's flight attends.On wings ...
COME little babe, come silly soul,Thy father's shame, thy mother's grief,Born as I doubt to all our dole,And to thyself ...
IN tremulous vision, falsely near,The forms of nature as phantoms appear,With the wonted colours of earth and sky,When o'er them ...
There is a voice of magic powerTo charm the old, delight the young —In lordly hall, in rustic bower,In every ...
A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me with fullhands;How could I answer the child?. . . ...
Air — "Lily Dale"Come all kind friends, wherever you may be, Come listen to what I say,It's of a little girl ...
I.The billows on the beach are leaping around it,The bark is weak and frail,The sea looks black, and the clouds ...
AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED TO MRS. L. A. W., OF LITTLE ROCK.OH how serenely soft that pale high brow,O'er which her clustering ...
Go to the raging sea, and say, "Be still!"Bid the wild lawless winds obey thy will;Preach to the storm, and ...
"Sound To The Onset, The Onset, The Onset!"Arouse ye! arouse ye! the foe is at large,Again and again we must ...
TAMELY, frail body, abstain to-day ; to-dayMy soul eats twice, Christ hither and away.She sees Him man, so like God ...
A grandson isnotthe wing-sprouting cherubthat I, as doting grandmotherhave persisted in seeing and showing.A grandson is a hot ice berg.that cannot retain or disdain,with ...
Thou shalt have no other gods before me."BLESSED be God! who has not sealedHis gospel from our sight,Who His commandments ...
WHEN o'er the street the morning peal is flungFrom yon tall belfry with the brazen tongue,Its wide vibrations, wafted by ...
Far down the lane A window pane Gleams 'mid the trees through night and rain. The weeds are dense Through which a fence Of pickets ...
Gloomy cliffs, so worn and wasted with the washing of the waves,Are ye not like giant tombstones round those lonely ...
The wind bloweth wildly; she stands on the shore;She shudders to hear it, and will evermore.The rush of the waves, ...
JAMIE.O MOTHER, what country is that I seeFar over the stream and the boulders gray,Where the wind-song pipes, and the ...
Mother of her who is close to my heartCease to chide!For no small thing must I wander afarFrom the tender ...
Quivering fears, Heart-tearing cares,Anxious sighs, Untimely tears,Fly, fly to Courts,Fly to fond worldling's sports,Where strained Sardonic smiles are glossing still,And ...
When Twilight her soft robe of shadow spreads down. And hushed is the roar and the din,When Evening is cooling the ...
She came and stood in the Old South Church,A wonder and a sign,With a look the old-time sibyls wore,Half-crazed and ...
Unconscious on thy lap I lay,A spiritual thing,Stirless until the yet unlooked-for dayOf human birthShould call me from thy starry ...
We have opened the door,Once, twice, thrice!We have swept the floor,We have boiled the rice.Come hither, come hither!Come from the ...
Here in the silent doorway let me linger One moment, for the porch is still and lonely;That shadow's but the rose ...
On the Early Death of her only Son."We weep with those who weep:" I sympathiseWith thee, oh mother! with the ...
Come, little babe; come, silly soul,Thy father's shame, thy mother's grief,Born, as I doubt, to all our doleAnd to thyself ...
Quivering fears, heart-tearing cares,Anxious sighs, untimely tears,Fly, fly to courts,Fly to fond worldling's sports,Where strained sardonic smiles are glossing still,And ...
Through female subtlety intense,Or the good luck of innocence,Or both, my Wife, with whom I planTo pass calm evenings when ...
What woe is thine, pale mother?—sayWhat grief devours thy heart? For ayeThy looks averted shun the day,And midnight sees thee ...
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