THE ELDER'S REBUKE. "Listen！ When your hair, like mine, Takes a tint of silver gray； When your eyes, with dimmer shine, Watch life's bubb...
LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP. Love is like the wild rose-briar； Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, But which will bl...
THE NIGHT-WIND. In summer's mellow midnight, A cloudless moon shone through Our open parlour window, And rose-trees wet with dew. I sat in silent ...
SELF-CONGRATULATION. Ellen, you were thoughtless once Of beauty or of grace, Simple and homely in attire, Careless of form and face； Then whence this ...
THE CAPTIVE DOVE. Poor restless dove, I pity thee； And when I hear thy plaintive moan, I mourn for thy captivity, And in thy woes forget mine own. To ...
THE STUDENT'S SERENADE. I have slept upon my couch, But my spirit did not rest, For the labours of the day Yet my weary soul opprest； And before m...
APPEAL. Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow； My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe； My life is very lonely My days pass h...
VIEWS OF LIFE. When sinks my heart in hopeless gloom, And life can show no joy for me； And I behold a yawning tomb, Where bowers and palaces should be...
LINES COMPOSED IN A WOOD ON A WINDY DAY. My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring And carried aloft on the wings of the breeze； For above and around ...
THE CONSOLATION. Though bleak these woods, and damp the ground With fallen leaves so thickly strown, And cold the wind that wanders round With wild an...