Felicia Dorothea Hemans's Poetry, by popularity

• Sea-Piece

  SUBLIME is thy prospect, thou proud-rolling Ocean,
  And Fancy surveys thee with solemn delight;

  28 lines
• To Resignation

  MAID of the placid smile and heav'nly mien,
  With beaming eye, tho' tearful yet serene;

  22 lines
• To My Younger Brother, On His Return From Spain, After The Fatal Retreat Under Sir John Moore, And The Battle Of Corunna.

  THO' dark are the prospects and heavy the hours,
  Tho' life is a desert, and cheerless the way;

  48 lines
• To My Eldest Brother, With The British Army In Portugal

  HOW many a day, in various hues array'd,
  Bright with gay sun-shine, or eclips'd with shade;

  49 lines
• Sonnet To Italy

  FOR thee, Ansonia! Nature's bounteous hand,
  Luxuriant spreads around her blooming stores;

  15 lines
• The Revellers

  Ring, joyous chords!--ring out again!
  A swifter still, and a wilder strain!

  62 lines
• The Sicilian Captive

  The champions had come from their fields of war,
  Over the crests of the billows far,

  84 lines
• The Voice Of Spring

  I come, I come! ye have called me long;
  I come o'er the mountains, with light and song.

  33 lines
• The Illuminated City

  THE hills all glow'd with a festive light,
  For the royal city rejoic'd by night:

  40 lines
• To The New-Born

  A BLESSING on thy head, thou child of many hopes and fears!
  A rainbow-welcome thine hath been, of mingled smiles and tears.

  16 lines
• To The Head-Ach

  THOU tyrant of the ling'ring hour!
  Ah, why with me delight to rest?

  43 lines
• Thekla's Song; Or, The Voice Of A Spirit

  Ask'st thou my home?—my pathway wouldst thou know,
  When from thine eye my floating shadow pass'd?

  28 lines
• To My Mother

  IF e'er for human bliss or woe
  I feel the sympathetic glow;

  68 lines
• The Indian Lover. Morning Song.

  O'ER flowery fields of waving maize,
  The breeze of morning lightly plays;

  42 lines
• The Bards, To The Soldiers Of Caractacus

  VALIANT sons of freedom's land,
  Ardent, firm, devoted band,

  75 lines
• War And Peace—A Poem

  THOU, bright Futurity! whose prospect beams,
  In dawning radiance on our day-light dreams;

  662 lines
• The Child's Last Sleep

  Thou sleepest but when wilt thou wake, fair child?
  When the fawn awakes in the forest wild?

  24 lines
• The Widow Of Crescentius : Part II.

  Hast thou a scene that is not spread
  With records of thy glory fled?

  343 lines
• The Laplander To His Rein-Deer

  HOW long, oh, my faithful companion and guide!
  Thou hast wafted o'er deserts my car!

  38 lines
• War-Song Of The Spanish Patriots

  YE who burn with glory's flame!
  Ye who love the Patriot's fame;

  57 lines
• The Wrath Of Loyalty

  OCTOBER! tho' thy rugged brow,
  No vivid wreaths entwine;

  265 lines
• The Domestic Affections

  WHENCE are those tranquil joys, in mercy giv'n,
  To light the wilderness with beams of Heav'n?

  471 lines
• Valkyriur Song

  The Sea-king woke from the troubled sleep
  Of a vision-haunted night,

  74 lines
• The Bended Bow

  There was heard the sound of a coming foe,
  There was sent through Britain a bended Bow,

  45 lines
• Song 2

  SUCCESS to the heroes of gallant Castile,
  Undaunted in danger, victorious in fight!

  18 lines
• The Statue Of The Dying Gladiator

  COMMANDING pow'r! whose hand with plastic art
  Bids the rude stone to grace and being start;

  50 lines
• The Call Of Liberty. May 1809

  YE nations of Europe! arising to war,
  And scorning submission to tyranny's might

  114 lines
• To A Butterfly Resting Upon A Skull

  Creature of air and light,
  Emblem of that which cannot die,

  22 lines
• The Crusader's Return

  Rest pilgrim, rest!--thou'rt from the Syrian land,
  Thou'rt from the wild and wondrous east, I know

  64 lines
• The Departed

  AND shrink ye from the way
  To the spirit's distant shore?

  53 lines

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