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Felicia Dorothea Hemans's Poetry, by first line

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  • Dirge
    CALM on the bosom of thy God,
    Fair spirit, rest thee now!
    8 lines
  • The Rainbow
    SOFT falls the mild, reviving shower
    From April's changeful skies,
    42 lines
  • The Sun
    The sun comes forth; each mountain height
    Glows with a tinge of rosy light,
    28 lines
  • The Rivers
    GO! trace th' unnumbered streams, o'er earth
    That wind their devious course,
    36 lines
  • The Stars
    NO cloud obscures the summer sky,
    The moon in brightness walks on high,
    42 lines
  • The Ocean
    HE that in venturous barks hath been
    A wanderer on the deep,
    38 lines
  • Night-Scene in Genoa
    In Genoa, when the sunset gave
    Its last warm purple to the wave,
    177 lines
  • The Thunderstorm
    DEEP, fiery clouds o'ercast the sky,
    Dead stillness reigns in air,
    40 lines
  • The Birds
    TRIBES of the air! whose favored race
    May wander through the realms of space,
    55 lines
  • The Sky-Lark
    THE Sky-lark, when the dews of morn
    Hang tremulous on flower and thorn,
    18 lines
  • The Nightingale
    WHEN twilight's grey and pensive hour
    Brings the low breeze, and shuts the flower,
    32 lines
  • The Northern Spring
    WHEN the soft breath of Spring goes forth
    Far o'er the mountains of the North,
    24 lines
  • To One Of The Author's Children
    THOU wak'st from happy sleep to play
    With bounding heart, my boy!
    17 lines
  • To A Younger Child
    Where sucks the bee now? Summer is flying;
    Leaves on the grass-plot faded are lying;
    13 lines
  • Introductory Verses
    OH! blest art thou, whose steps may rove
    Through the green paths of vale and grove,
    28 lines
  • Arabella Stuart
    \And is not love in vain,
    Torture enough without a living tomb?\
    281 lines
  • The Switzer's Wife
    It was the time when children bound to meet
    Their father's homeward step from field or hill,
    119 lines
  • Properzia Rossi
    ONE dream of passion and of beauty more!
    And in its bright fulfillment let me pour
    147 lines
  • Gertrude, Or Fidelity Till Death
    Dark lowers our fate,
    And terrible the storm that gathers o'er us;
    65 lines
  • Imelda
    We have the myrtle's breath around us here,
    Amidst the fallen pillars; this hath been
    129 lines
  • Juana
    The night-wind shook the tapestry round an ancient palace-room,
    And torches, as it rose and fell, waved thro' the gorgeous gloom,
    52 lines
  • The Indian City
    What deep wounds ever clos'd without a scar?
    The heart's bleed longest, and but heal to wear
    235 lines
  • Indian Woman's Death-Song
    DOWN a broad river of the western wilds,
    Piercing thick forest glooms, a light canoe
    48 lines
  • Pauline
    ALONG the star-lit Seine went music swelling,
    Till the air thrill'd with its exulting mirth;
    96 lines
  • The Wounded Eagle
    Eagle! this is not thy sphere!
    Warrior-bird, what seek'st thou here?
    32 lines
  • The Penitent's Return
    My father's house once more,
    In its own moonlight beauty! yet around,
    48 lines
  • The Forest Sanctuary - Part I.
    The voices of my home!--I hear them still!
    They have been with me through the dreamy night--
    930 lines
  • The Storm
    Fear was within the tossing bark,
    When stormy winds grew loud;
    25 lines
  • O Thou Breeze of Spring!
    O thou breeze of spring!
    Gladdening sea and shore,
    25 lines
  • Harvest Hymn
    Now autumn strews on every plain,
    His mellow fruits and fertile grain;
    30 lines
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