Lines On The Death Of William Sotheby, Esq (Joanna Baillie Poems)
LEARNING and fancy were combinedTo stimulate his manly mind;Open, generous and acute,Steady of purpose, in pursuitArdent and hopeful; all the ...
LEARNING and fancy were combinedTo stimulate his manly mind;Open, generous and acute,Steady of purpose, in pursuitArdent and hopeful; all the ...
Down the green slope he bounded. Raven curls From his white shoulders by the winds were swept, And the clear color of ...
After forty years. Sacred these walls wherein I find Myself inclosed once more; Here in youth's pride my ardent mind On nightly tasks would ...
The moon was shining yet. The Orient's brow, Set with the morning star, was not yet dim; And the deep silence which ...
Whoever I am, wherever my lot, Whatever I happen to be,Contentment and Duty shall hallow the spot That Providence orders for me;No ...
I.Now the last day of many days,All beautiful and bright as thou,The loveliest and the last, is dead,Rise, Memory, and ...
GIFTED of Heaven! who hast, in days gone by,Moved every heart, delighted every eye,While age and youth, of high and ...
Air — "Minnie Lee"Oh! come listen to my story Of a little infant child —His spirit is in glory — It has ...
Cities and men, and nations, have passed by,Like leaves upon an autumn's dreary sky;Like chaff upon the ocean billow proud,Like ...
Wondrous and awful are thy silent halls, O kingdom of the past!There lie the bygone ages in their palls, Guarded by shadows ...
Lo, winter's hoar dominion past!Arrested in his eastern blastThe fiend of nature flies;Breathing the spring, the zephyrs play,And re-enthroned the ...
Awake dull soul, and from thy fold of clayReceive the blessed tidings of the day:Not of a fox's cub, whose ...
IOver the bay as our boat went sailing Under the skies of Augustine,Far to the East lay the ocean paling Under the ...
Demeter sad! the wells of sorrow lay Eternal gushing in thy lonely path. Methinks I see her now--an awful shape Tall o'er a ...
IT is not what we say or sing,That keeps our charm so long unbroken,Though every lightest leaf we bringMay touch ...
Clear shone the moon, my mansion walls Towered white above the wood,Near, down the dark oak avenue An humble cottage stood.My gardener's ...
All the loud winds were in the garden wood,All shadows joyfuller than lissom houndsDoubled in chasing, all exultant cloudsThat ever ...
HOW did he live, this dead man here,With the temple above his grave?He lived as a great one, from cradle ...
Strange is the song, and the soul that is singing Falters because of the vision it sees;Voice that is not of ...
(Written in her seventeenth year.)And this was once the realm of nature, whereWild as the wind, tho' exquisitely fair,She breath'd ...
Salvation comes by Jesus Christ alone,The only Son of God;Redemption now to every one,That love his holy Word.Dear Jesus we ...
A Yankee ship and a Yankee crew-Constitution, where ye bound for?Wherever, my lad, there's fight to be had,Acrost the Western ...
(A Funeral Sermon)Weep not, weep not,She is not dead;She's resting in the bosom of Jesus.Heart-broken husband--weep no more;Grief-stricken son--weep no ...
When these stately Halls I scanAnd the giant burden of these Houses,And the stormy pilgrimage of ManAnd the frenzied race ...
Wise education, vital breathInspires an enchanting virtue;She puts the Country in the lofty seatOf endless glory, of dazzling glow,And just ...
Hear ye not the waters beating where the rapid rivers, meeting With the winds above them fleeting, hurry to the distant ...
O constellations of the early night,That sparkled brighter as the twilight died,And made the darkness glorious! I have seenYour rays ...
Had I been young I could have claimed to fold thee For many days against my eager breast;But, as things are, ...
All worldly shapes shall melt in gloom,The Sun himself must die,Before this mortal shall assumeIts Immortality!I saw a vision in ...
Why blow'st thou not, thou wintry wind, Now every leaf is brown and sere, And idly droops, to thee resigned, The fading chaplet ...
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