Ode To Cheerfulness (Felicia Dorothea Hemans Poems)
"LOVELY nymph! with eye serene, Dimpled smile and frolic mien; Come, with airy step advancing, Come, with blooming Hebe dancing; ...
"LOVELY nymph! with eye serene, Dimpled smile and frolic mien; Come, with airy step advancing, Come, with blooming Hebe dancing; ...
Twenty-eight naked young women bathed by the shoreOr near the bank of a woodland lakeTwenty-eight girls and all of them ...
Krinken was a little child,—It was summer when he smiled.Oft the hoary sea and grimStretched its white arms out to ...
Three summer's since I chose a maid,Too young may be - but more's to doAt harvest time than bide and ...
To the memory of W. B. YeatsITowards nightfall when the windTries the eaves and casements(A winter wind of the mindLong ...
Must I read it again, Sir?--So--here do I stand, Like the priest that holds forth with a scull in his ...
Tho' youth may boast the curls that flow,In sunny waves of auburn glow;As graceful on thy hoary head,Has time the ...
Sweet Content, at the rich man's gate, Called, "Wilt thou let me in?" "No! thou art poor and thou art ...
WHERE the cowslip and primrose grew, But now they were growing no more,All wet with the drops of the ...
I.HUSH, moaning autumn wind! be still, be still! Thy grieving voice forbiddeth hearts to rest; We hear thee sweeping down ...
I.I have only one foot, but thousands of toes;My one foot stands well, but never goes;I've a good many arms, ...
Time beckons on the hours: the expiring year Already feels old Winter's icy breath; As with cold hands ...
HOW soon the verdant months are past!The branches bend with snow,And keenly beats the chilling blastOn bleak November's brow.Thus fleeting ...
IT is the mellow seasonWhen gold enchantment liesOn stream and road and woodland,To gladden soul's surmise.The little old grey homesteadsAre ...
The wind that through the forest blows May scatter leaves and blossoms wide. The parent tree but ...
To her Grandfather on his Birthday.OH sweet is light that dawns from gloom, And hope that springs from grief; Soon ...
WINTER forests mutely standing Naked on your bed of snow,Wide your knotted arms expanding To the biting winds that blow,Nought ...
We've been out to Pelletier'sBrushing off the stain of years,Quitting all the moods of menAnd been boys and girls again.We ...
Let praise to Thee, all sov'reign Pow'r, arise,Who fix'd the mountains, and who form'd the skies!Who o'er thy works extend'st ...
(MUD FLAT, 1860)So you're back from your travels, old fellow, And you left but a twelvemonth ago;You've hobnobbed with Louis ...
The sea was calm, cloudless the sky They kept the watch with eagle eye;Hard by the shore were resting in ...
The Year Of The Trouble In LancashireThe skies are pale, the trees are stiff,The earth is dull and old;The frost ...
The organ peals through pictured panes that etch strange patterns on the grass,A thorned head shadowed on the flags, beneath ...
I.WE stand among the fallen leaves, Young children at our play, And laugh to see the yellow things Go rustling ...
The Northland reared his hoary head And spied the Southland leagues away—"Fairest of all fair brides," he said, "Be thou ...
MY beautiful beech, your smooth grey coat is trimmedWith letters. Once, each stood for all things dearTo foolish lovers, dead ...
Through the city's narrow gatewayForth an aged beggar fares,None is there to give him escort,And no farewell word he bears.Heaven's ...
Lovers whose lifted hands are candles in winter,Whose gentle ways like streams in the easy summer,Lying togetherFor secret setting of ...
I think I should suit, for I've knowledge minute Of all tickets, time-tables, and trains;All speedings and slowings and comings ...
Dismal day, with the weather inclement.Inconsolably rivulets runDown the porch in front of the doorway;Through my wide-open windows they come.But ...
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