Trifles in Verse: A Collection of Fugitive PoemsRobinson and Jones, 1845 - 184 páginas |
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... fair to me , As As when an infant , Mother dear , I played upon thy knee ! They tell me , Mother ! that thy cheek Hath lost that ruddy glow , Of which so oft I've heard those speak Who knew thee long ago . It may be so ! -yet will I ...
... fair to me , As As when an infant , Mother dear , I played upon thy knee ! They tell me , Mother ! that thy cheek Hath lost that ruddy glow , Of which so oft I've heard those speak Who knew thee long ago . It may be so ! -yet will I ...
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... fair , Begineth to decay ; That thy once glossy , raven hair , Is turning fast to gray . Yet I each hoary tress revere , Each charm , by thee possess'd , As fair to me doth still appear , As first my sight it bless'd ! And yet I know ...
... fair , Begineth to decay ; That thy once glossy , raven hair , Is turning fast to gray . Yet I each hoary tress revere , Each charm , by thee possess'd , As fair to me doth still appear , As first my sight it bless'd ! And yet I know ...
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... fair form was stricken low . If love devoted might retain Its idol ever by its side- Redeem from death those dear - oh ! then , Beloved one , thou hadst not died ! TEARS FOR THE DEAD . If tears availed to wake 24 Tears for the Dead.
... fair form was stricken low . If love devoted might retain Its idol ever by its side- Redeem from death those dear - oh ! then , Beloved one , thou hadst not died ! TEARS FOR THE DEAD . If tears availed to wake 24 Tears for the Dead.
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... fair and bright ; When here the tempest lowers , And fly the friends we love From earth , to fairer bowers Of yon bright world above ; When pleasures fled entreat us Seek those that will not fly ; When disappointments meet us ; How ...
... fair and bright ; When here the tempest lowers , And fly the friends we love From earth , to fairer bowers Of yon bright world above ; When pleasures fled entreat us Seek those that will not fly ; When disappointments meet us ; How ...
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... fair , in distant lands Reign , kingly - chosen ones ; While others still are springing up Fair buds of loveliness and hope ! For her , with pomp of queenly life , Domestic 35 Queenly Resignation.
... fair , in distant lands Reign , kingly - chosen ones ; While others still are springing up Fair buds of loveliness and hope ! For her , with pomp of queenly life , Domestic 35 Queenly Resignation.
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angel beneath the sky birth BIRTH-DAY bless bless'd bliss blue boast breathe bright brow calm charm Cherish Conoquenessing dear death doth dream dust dust to dust e'en earth fair fairer fairest fairy fancy feel flowers Freedom and Fame gaze gentle girls we love girls we love!—all glory grace grief hair happy days HARVARD COLLEGE hath heart Heaven holy KATE kings lady land life's light lone love my love love!—all girls Love's Macedon maiden MARY MARY'S LOVE MERRY OLD ENGLAND moon by night moonstruck mortal Mother's ne'er Neath never night o'er Olden Memories once perchance praise pride pure QUAKERESS Queen QUEEN VICTORIA roam seek shines skies smile song sooth sorrow soul spirit sunny sweet sweetest tears thee thine thou art thou hast thought throne thy steps truth twas vows weary ween wild WOMAN'S SPHERE youth Zelienople
Passagens conhecidas
Página 96 - She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair: But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay.
Página 42 - It is the hour when lovers' vows Seem sweet in every whisper'd word ; And gentle winds, and waters near, Make music to the lonely ear. Each flower the dews have lightly wet, And in the sky the stars are met, And on the wave is deeper blue, And on the leaf a browner hue, And in the heaven that clear obscure, So softly...
Página 49 - His storm and wind shook thy soul with pious awe, — there are thy affections, there is thy country. Where the first human eye bent lovingly over thy cradle, where thy mother first bore thee joyfully on her bosom, where thy father engraved the words of wisdom on thy heart, — there are thy affections...
Página 99 - You lie, in faith, for you are called plain Kate, And bonny Kate, and sometimes Kate the curst ; But Kate, the prettiest Kate in Christendom, Kate of...
Página 13 - Like the dim traditions, hoary, Of our loved and native clime; Like some half-forgotten story, Read or heard in olden time ; Like the fresh'ning dew of even To the parched and drooping flower ; Like the peaceful thoughts of Heaven In life's tempest-stricken hour ; Like the cadence of a song, — Yet, oh, sweeter far than these, Are the thoughts that round us throng With those
Página 14 - Like the peaceful thought of Heaven, In life's tempest-stricken hour; Like the cadence of a song ; — Yet, oh ! sweeter far than these Are the thoughts that round us throng With those Olden Memories...
Página 15 - Oh ! then, sweeter than perfume Borne on aromatic breeze, To the softened spirit come Those dear " Olden Memories !" In our days of mirth and gladness We may spurn their faint control, But they come, in hours of sadness, Like sweet music to the soul ; And in sorrow, o'er us stealing With their gentleness and calm, They are leaves of precious healing, They are fruits of choicest balm. Ever till, when life departs, Death from dross the spirit frees, Cherish, in thine heart of hearts, All thine " Olden...
Página 74 - Light to thy path, bright creature! I would charm Thy being, if I could, that it should be Ever as now thou dreamest, and flow on, Thus innocent and beautiful, to heaven.
Página 183 - Why should the memories of the dead Be ever those of gloom and sadness ? — Why should their dwellings not be made 'Mid scenes of light, and life, and gladness ? Here let the young and gay repair, And in this scene of light and beauty, Gather from earth, and sky, and air, Lessons of life, and love, and duty...