The forest sanctuary, and other poems; Records of woman, with other poems

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Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, 1827

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Página 160 - 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. The merry homes of England! Around their hearths by night, What gladsome looks of household love Meet in the ruddy light! There woman's voice flows forth in song, Or childhood's tale is told, Or lips move tunefully along Some glorious page...
Página 225 - Father, by the breeze of eve, Called thy harvest work to leave ; — Pray, ere yet the dark hours be ; Lift the heart and bend the knee. 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, on the darkening sea, Lift the heart and bend the knee.
Página 229 - Ye of the rose-cheek and dew-bright eye, And the bounding footstep to meet me fly, With the lyre, and the wreath, and the joyous lay, Come forth to the sunshine, I may not stay...
Página 91 - I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell; To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intensely; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy; for from within were heard Murmurings, whereby the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea.
Página 192 - Bring flowers, fresh flowers, for the bride to wear ; They were born to blush in her shining hair, She is leaving the home of her childhood's mirth, She hath bid farewell to her father's hearth, Her place is now by another's side — Bring flowers for the locks of the fair young bride.
Página 97 - And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air, where it comes and goes like the warbling of music, than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air.
Página 132 - And we know they have quench'd their fever's thirst From the Fountain of youth ere now, For there must the stream in its freshness burst Which none may find below ! And we know that they will not be lured to earth From the land of deathless flowers, By the feast, or the dance, or the song of mirth, Though their hearts were once with ours : Though they sat with us by the night-fire's blaze, And bent with us the bow, And heard the tales of our fathers...
Página 226 - Warrior, that from battle won Breathest now at set of sun ! Woman, o'er the lowly slain Weeping on his burial plain ; Ye that triumph, ye that sigh, Kindred by one holy tie, Heaven's first star alike ye see — Lift the heart and bend the knee...
Página 237 - Nought looks the same, save the nest we made ! " Sad is your tale of the beautiful earth, Birds that o'ersweep it in power and mirth ! Yet through the wastes of the trackless air Ye have a guide, and shall we despair? Ye over desert and deep have pass'd — So may we reach our bright home at last ! THE GRAVES OF A HOUSEHOLD.
Página 225 - CHILD, amidst the flowers at play, While the red light fades away; Mother, with thine earnest eye Ever following silently ; Father, by the breeze of eve Called thy harvest- work to leave ; Pray ! — ere yet the dark hours be, Lift the heart and bend the knee...

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