Poems of Felicia HemansW. Blackwood, 1872 - 652 páginas |
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... Light o'er its chords the murmuring zephyr sighs ; Thy solemn courts , where once the minstrel sung , The choral voice of mirth and music rung ; Now , with the ivy clad , forsaken , lone , Hear but the breeze and echo to its moan : Thy ...
... Light o'er its chords the murmuring zephyr sighs ; Thy solemn courts , where once the minstrel sung , The choral voice of mirth and music rung ; Now , with the ivy clad , forsaken , lone , Hear but the breeze and echo to its moan : Thy ...
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... light . Sublime COLUMBUS ! when , at length descried , The long - sought land arose above the tide , How every heart with exultation glow'd , How from each eye the tear of transport flow'd ! Not wilder joy the sons of Israel knew When ...
... light . Sublime COLUMBUS ! when , at length descried , The long - sought land arose above the tide , How every heart with exultation glow'd , How from each eye the tear of transport flow'd ! Not wilder joy the sons of Israel knew When ...
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... light array'd ! Let angel - forms and floating sylphids bear Thy car of sapphire through the realms of air : With accents milder than Æolian lays , When o'er the harp the fanning zephyr plays , Be thine to charm the raging world to rest ...
... light array'd ! Let angel - forms and floating sylphids bear Thy car of sapphire through the realms of air : With accents milder than Æolian lays , When o'er the harp the fanning zephyr plays , Be thine to charm the raging world to rest ...
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... light Than all the diamond's crystal rays , Than all the emerald's lucid blaze ; And joys of heaven would thrill thy heart To bid one bosom - grief depart , One tear , one sorrow cease ! Then , oh ! may Heaven , that loves to bless ...
... light Than all the diamond's crystal rays , Than all the emerald's lucid blaze ; And joys of heaven would thrill thy heart To bid one bosom - grief depart , One tear , one sorrow cease ! Then , oh ! may Heaven , that loves to bless ...
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... light reveal'd ! If here the lore of distant time , And learning's flowers , were all thine own ; How must thy mind ascend sublime , Matured in heaven's empyreal clime , To light's unclouded throne ! Perhaps e'en now thy kindling glance ...
... light reveal'd ! If here the lore of distant time , And learning's flowers , were all thine own ; How must thy mind ascend sublime , Matured in heaven's empyreal clime , To light's unclouded throne ! Perhaps e'en now thy kindling glance ...
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art thou banner beauty beneath bless bosom bowers brave breast breath breeze bright bright land brow Carmagnola child cloud Conradin dark dead death deep doth dread dreams dwell e'en earth ELMINA fair falchion farewell father fear flowers fount gaze gentle glance gleam gloom glorious glory glow gone grave grief harp hath hear heart heaven Hemans holy hope hour hush'd Joanna Baillie land light Llywarch Hen lone look'd lyre midst mighty Montalba Moorish mournful ne'er night o'er pale pass'd pour'd PROCIDA proud Provençal Raim repose rills rose round scene seem'd shade shadow shore shrine silent skies sleep smile soft song soul sound Spain spirit star stream sunbeam sunny sweet swell sword tears thee thine thou art Thou hast thought throne tomb tone Twas unto voice wandering wave weep wild wind young
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Página 369 - THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm ; A creature of heroic blood, A proud, though child-like form.
Página 375 - Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, And stars to set, but all — Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death...
Página 412 - THE stately homes of England ! How beautiful they stand, Amidst their tall ancestral trees, O'er all the pleasant land ! The deer across their greensward bound, Through shade and sunny gleam ; And the swan glides past them with the sound Of some rejoicing stream.
Página 429 - THE breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast, And the woods against a stormy sky Their giant branches tossed ; And the heavy night hung dark The hills and waters o'er, When a band of exiles moored their bark On the wild New England shore.
Página 369 - Speak, Father!" once again he cried, "If I may yet be gone!" —And but the booming shots replied, And fast the flames rolled on.
Página 478 - Not there, not there, my child! "Eye hath not seen it, my gentle boy! Ear hath not heard its deep songs of joy ; Dreams cannot picture a world so fair — Sorrow and death may not enter there : Time doth not breathe on its fadeless bloom, For beyond the clouds, and beyond the tomb, — It is there, it is there, my child!
Página 429 - There was woman's fearless eye, Lit by her deep love's truth; There was manhood's brow serenely high, And the fiery heart of youth. What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine? The wealth of seas, the spoils of war? — They sought a faith's pure shrine. Ay, call it holy ground, — The soil where first they trod! They have left unstained what there they found — Freedom to worship God ! Felicia Hemans.
Página 435 - O'er each fair sleeping brow, She had each folded flower in sight — Where are those dreamers now? One midst the forests of the West, By a dark stream, is laid ; The Indian knows his place of rest, Far in the cedar shade. The sea, the blue lone sea, hath one, He lies where pearls lie deep, He was the loved of all, yet none O'er his low bed may weep.
Página 377 - Traveller, in the stranger's land, Far from thine own household band ; Mourner, haunted by the tone Of a voice from this world gone ; Captive, in whose narrow cell Sunshine hath not leave to dwell ; Sailor...
Página 369 - With mast, and helm, and pennon fair, That well had borne their part — But the noblest thing which perished there Was that young faithful heart...