Exhaled as to heaven in mystical prayer,Invoking that love which forbids him to die.Sweet hope, lovely passion, my grief ever chase,And scatter the gloom which veils pleasure’s bright ray,O lend me thy wings, and assist me to traceThe flight of my fair one when gone far away.When the dim star of pleasure sets glimmering alone,The…
And from that heart-extorted sigh,At once the peal of love is rung.When that soft eye lets fall a tearOf doating fondness as we part,The stream is from a cause sincere,And issues from a melting heart.What shall her fluttering pulse restrain,The life-watch beating from her soul,When all the power of hate is slain,And love permits it…
Your crowing days are short at most,You bloom but soon to fade;Surely you could not stand so wide,If strictly to the bottom tried,The wind would blow your plume asideIf half your debts were paid.Then boast and bear the crack,With the sheriff at your back;Huzza for dandy Jack,My jolly fop, my Joe.The blue smoke from your…
Deprived of all created bliss,Through hardship, toil and pain!How long have I in bondage lain,And languished to be free!Alas! and must I still complain–Deprived of liberty.Oh, Heaven! and is there no reliefThis side the silent grave–To soothe the pain–to quell the griefAnd anguish of a slave?Come Liberty, thou cheerful sound,Roll through my ravished ears!Come, let…
Thou delicate blossom; thy short race is ended,Thou sample of virtue and prize of the brave!No more are thy beauties by mortals attended,They now are but food for the worms and the grave.Thou art gone to the tomb, whence there’s no returning,And left us behind in a vale of suspense;In vain to the dust do…
‘Tis but a brazen bell that I have rung,And I to nothing fall;My theme is but an idle airIf Rosabella is not there,Though I in thunders rave,And hurl the blaze of oratoric flowers,Others I move, but fail myself to saveWith my declaiming powers;I sink, alas! I know not where,If Rosabella is not there.Though I point…
The wish of destruction completed,The soldier eternally slain.When winter succeeds to the summer,The bird is too chilly to sing;No music is play’d for the drummer,No carol is heard on the wing.The court of a nation forsaken,An edifice stripp’d of its dome,Its fame from her pinnacle shaken,Like the sigh heaving downfall of Rome.Fall’n, fall’n is the…
Where God the Son unveils his face,And shows that Heaven is love.Love that revolves through endless years–Love that can never pall;Love which excludes the gloom of fears,Love to whom God is all!Love which can ransom every slave,And set the pris’ner free;Gild the dark horrors of the grave,And still the raging sea.Let but the partial smile…
Suspended by a web, an angler’s bait,Floating at stake along the stream of chance,Snatch’d from its hook by the fish of poverty,A silent cavern is his last abode;The king’s repository veil’d with gloom,The umbrage of a thousand oziers bowed,The couch of hallowed bones, the grave’s asylum,The brave’s retreat and end of ev’ry care.
Void of faults but strictly true?Fly far awayWithout delay,Adieu, my love, adieu.Hast thou gone and left me,Hence to seek another bride?I must be still,Thou hast thy will,The world is free and wide.Only hadst thou told meEre I drunk the bitter cup,I could with shame,Now bear the blame,And freely give thee up.But I’m left to ponder,Now…
