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The poems of Mrs. Emma Catherine Embury

Embury, Emma C. (1806-1863)

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SKETCHES FROM HISTORY.

L'IMPROVISATRICE.

THE SHEPHERD BOY.

THE LONELY ONE.

AN HOUR OF SADNESS.

TO THE EVENING STAR.

SONG OF THE FAIRIES.

WILLIAM TELL ON THE MOUNTAINS.

WILLIAM TELL IN CHAINS.

LINES ON HEARING OF THE DEATH OF A VERY BEAUTIFUL WOMAN THREE WEEKS AFTER HAVING MET HER AT A BALL.

SWEET REMEMBRANCE.

THE MOTHER'S FAREWELL TO HER WEDDED DAUGHTER.

THE DYING YEAR.

SABBATH MORNING.

SPRING BREEZES.

CONFIDENCE IN HEAVEN.

THE TRANSPLANTED FLOWERS.

THE MAIDEN TO HER REJECTED LOVER.

THE REMEMBRANCE OF YOUTH IS A SIGH.

THE DYING POET.

THE FADED PASSION-FLOWER.

SONG OF MORNING.

THE MORAVIAN BURIAL-GROUND.

THE MINSTREL'S LAST SONG.

“PRAY FOR YOUR QUEEN.”

NAPOLEON AT SAINT HELENA.

LAMENT OF THE EMPRESS JOSEPHINE.

MADAME DE STAËL.

THE ANNIVERSARY.

THE CONSUMPTIVE.

THE WIDOW'S WOOER.

ELEGIAC STANZAS.

THE LAST VIOLET.

LINES ON AN OLD PICTURE OF A MONKISH STUDENT OF THE MIDDLE AGES.

STANZAS TO A FRIEND AFTER A LONG SEPARATION.

BYRON IN THE CERTOSA CEMETERY.

TO MY FIRST-BORN.

STANZAS ON THE DEATH OF A SISTER.

THE WIFE'S SONG.

ADIEU OF THE EMPRESS AMELIA OF BRAZIL TO THE INFANT EMPEROR.

FAREWELL TO THE SUMMER FRIENDS WHOM I MET AT WEST POINT.

LINES ON HEARING MY CHILDREN SING.

THE THOUGHTLESS WORD.

TO EMMA, THREE YEARS OLD.

THE AUTUMN WALK.

THE HYMN IN THE TEMPEST.

THE MOTHER'S SOLACE.

AUTUMN EVENING.

THE WIFE'S OFFERING ON THE NEW YEAR.

THE PASSING YEAR.

THE WIFE'S SONG ON THE NEW YEAR.

STANZAS FOR MUSIC.

TWELVE YEARS AGO.

“TOUJOURS PERDRIX.”

LINES ON A PORTRAIT.

LINES ON THE DEATH OF A YOUNG ARTIST.

SONGS, FROM CONSTANCE LATIMER.

THE POETIC IMPULSE.

SONNETS TO THE HON. MRS. NORTON.

SPIRITUAL BEAUTY.

COME TO ME, LOVE.

THE ENGLISH RIVER.

THE AMERICAN RIVER.

LINES TO A FRIEND.

THE INCONSTANT.

RECKLESS MIRTH.

I WILL NOT LOVE THEE.

A GENTLE HERITAGE IS MINE.

THE ÆOLIAN HARP.

“SOMETHING BEYOND.”

THE MOURNER'S APPEAL.

SONNET.

THE STAR-FLOWER.

THE RUINED MILL.

THE OLD MAN'S LAMENT.

SONNET ON HEARING MUSIC.

THE WAYSIDE BROOK.

THE VOICE OF THE BROOK.

HOW WILL YE THINK OF ME?

STANZAS FOR MUSIC.

THE PEASANT GIRL'S WISH.

THE OLD MAN'S LAST WISH.

THE POET'S PRAYER.

STANZAS, WRITTEN AFTER LISTENING TO MUSIC.

“DOUBT ME NOT.”

EPITAPHS ON A YOUNG LADY.

SONGS FOR MUSIC.

THE CHILD'S DESTINY.

TIME'S CHANGES.

“DUM SPIRO, SPERO.”

LAMENT (OF ONE OF THE OLD RÉGIME).

LINES SENT TO A FRIEND, WITH A PERFUMED “SACHET.”

THE JEALOUS LOVER'S EXCUSE.

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SONNET.

Alas for those who quench the holy spark
Of inspiration in their secret soul,
Yielding their natures up to earth's control,
Until the mental sight grows dim and dark,

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And thought no longer seeks a lofty mark,
No longer toils to reach a noble goal,
While the heart drains life's enervating bowl,
And freights with all its hopes some helmless bark!
Alas! alas! on earthly shrines we lay
The incense we should offer up to Heaven,
We lavish on an idol of to-day
The love that for infinitude was given,
Till from our souls the light fades slow away,
And clouds of doubt and fear are o'er our spirits driven.