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Fairfield, Sumner Lincoln (1803-1844)

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“OH THAT THE DESERT WERE MY DWELLING PLACE.”

THE GRECIAN CROSS.

ODE TO EVENING.

Hebrew Melodies.

[The moon unfurls her blushing sail]

THE RURAL RUELLE.

[When tortured life, and visionary schemes]

THE ANGEL OF PEACE.

[I stood amid the perfumed foliage]

[I saw a yacht, in gay career]

[Come to the bower, that love has wove]

[There is a fountain welling, yet unknown]

[There's a crystalline cove hid in the deep-bosomed hills]

THE SAILOR'S DREAM.

THE FELO-DE-SE.

A SEASIDE REVERIE.

[There's a dome in yon star, that is floating on high]

[The night-hawks fly]

COLUMBIA; A SAPPHIC ODE.

MY NATAL SCENES;

FANCY'S ROMAUNT.

THE DESPERATE MAID.

THE OUTLAW'S BRIDE.

[I love to linger on the hours]

[Here on this velvet-mantled lawn]

[O, that in listening to my youthful strain]

[When, like austral breezes light soft breathing o'er the fields of roses]

[My bosom has become a sepulchre]

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Poems

Sumner Lincoln Fairfield

1803-1844

Published by E. Bliss and E. White, Collins and Co., Collins and Hannay, F. and R. Lockwood, and J. V. Seaman

New York

1823