Love Poems – Page 2524
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On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke
Underneath this sable herse / Lies the subject of all verse: / Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother: … -
On the death of a friend
There was no bell to peal thy funeral dirge, / No nodding plumes to wave above thy bier, / No shroud to wrap thee but the foaming surge, … -
On the Death of a particular Friend
As those we love decay, we die in part, / String after string is sever'd from the heart; / Till loosen'd life, at last but breathing clay, … -
On the Death of an Infant
From the Dutch by H. S. Van Dyk / A HOST of angels flying, / Through cloudless skies impelled, … -
On the Death of Her Brother, Francis I.
From the French by Louisa Stuart Costello / ’T IS done! a father, mother, gone, / A sister, brother, torn away, … -
On the Death of Joseph Rodman Drake
Green be the turf above thee, / Friend of my better days! / None knew thee but to love thee, … -
On the Death of Little Mahala Ashcraft
“little haly! Little Haly!” cheeps the robin in the tree; / “Little Haly!” sighs the clover, “Little Haly!” moans the bee; / “Little Haly! Little Haly!” calls the kill-deer at twilight; … -
On the Death of Mr. Robert Levet,a Practiser in Physic
Condemn'd to Hope's delusive mine, / As on we toil from day to day, / By sudden blasts or slow decline … -
On the Death of Mr. William Hervey
It was a dismal and a fearful night: / Scarce could the Morn drive on th' unwilling Light, / When Sleep, Death's image, left my troubled breast … -
On the death of Mrs. N. P. Willis
In life's freshness, and its fulness,--- / In thy womanhood's young bloom, / While thy brow was all unclouded …
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