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Poems
By Frances Anne Kemble
Kemble, Fanny (1809-1893)
EARLY POEMS.
LINES WRITTEN AT NIGHT, August 9th, 1825.
VENICE.
TO MISS SARAH SIDDONS.
THE WIND.
EASTERN SUNSET.
FAREWELL TO ITALY.
THE RED INDIAN.
SONG.
LAMENT FOR ISRAEL.
A WISH.
A WISH.
SONG.
TO MRS. HENRY SIDDONS.
A SPIRIT'S VOICE.
TO THE DEAD.
TO ------.
SONG.
TO THOMAS MOORE, ESQ.
THE MINSTREL'S GRAVE.
ON A FORGET-ME-NOT
A WISH.
SONNET.
SONNET.
ON A MUSICAL BOX.
TO THE PICTURE OF A LADY.
FRAGMENT.
SONNET.
WRITTEN ON CRAMOND BEACH.
SONNET.
FRAGMENT.
SONNET.
A PROMISE.
A PROMISE.
SONNET.
TO HARRIET ST. LEGER.
SONNET.
THE VISION OF LIFE.
SONNET TO MRS. JAMESON,
TO MY GUARDIAN ANGEL.
SONNET.
SONNET TO HARRIET ST. LEGER.
TO THE SPRING.
TO THE NIGHTINGALE.
TO ------.
WOMAN'S LOVE.
TO MRS. NORTON.
AN ENTREATY.
LINES FOR MUSIC.
THE PARTING.
SONG.
FAITH.
TO A STAR.
SONNET.
SONNET.
SONNET.
LINES,
LINES FOR MUSIC.
A FAREWELL.
IMPROMPTU.
SONG.
LINES ON A SLEEPING CHILD.
SONNET.
SONNET.
SONNET.
TO A PICTURE.
LINES WRITTEN AT SEA.
LINES WRITTEN AT SEA.
SATURDAY NIGHT SONG AT SEA.
LINES.
AUTUMN.
AUTUMN SONG.
A PICTURE.
WINTER.
TO MRS. DULANEY.
LINES TO MISS ST. LEGER.
BALLAD.
LINES.
LINES.
LINES.
WRITTEN AT TRENTON FALLS.
IMPROMPTU.
IMPROMPTU
LINES.
SONNET.
AN ANSWER.
TO ------.
SONNET.
AN INVITATION.
AN INVOCATION.
A LAMENT FOR THE WISSAHICCON.
TO THE WISSAHICCON.
THE DEATH-SONG.
WRITTEN AFTER LEAVING WEST POINT.
FRAGMENT
AN APOLOGY.
WRITTEN AFTER SPENDING A DAY AT WEST POINT.
LINES
LINES TO ---.
LINES TO ------.
LINES
LINES
SONNET.
TO------.
SONNET,
ON A HOLLOW FRIENDSHIP.
EXPECTATION.
FORSAKEN.
TO------.
IMPROMPTU,
SONNET.
A RETROSPECT.
LINES FOR MUSIC.
AN EVENING SONG.
“'TIS AN OLD TALE AND OFTEN TOLD.”
SONNET.
SONG.
THE PRAYER OF A LONELY HEART.
ABSENCE.
SONNET.
RETURN.
LINES
TO------.
EPISTLE FROM THE RHINE.
SONNET.
SONNET.
SONNET.
LINES
WRITTEN AT TRENTON FALLS.
TWO PICTURES.
TO------,
A NOONDAY VISION.
SONNET.
SONNET.
SONNET.
A LOVER TO HIS MISTRESS.
A REJECTED LOVER TO HIS MISTRESS.
A REJECTED LOVER TO HIS MISTRESS.
PARTING.
LINES.
SONNET.
LINES
MORNING
NOONDAY
EVENING
LINES
LINES
WRITTEN IN A DIARY.
ARRIVAL IN ROME.
IMPROMPTU.
LINES.
LIFE.
LINES ON THE ANIO AT TIVOLI.
THE SIREN'S CAVE AT TIVOLI.
HADRIAN'S VILLA.
THE AUTUMN CYCLAMEN.
A ROOM IN THE VILLA TAVERNA.
THE LANDGRAFF.
THE FELLOWSHIP OF GENIUS.
SONNET.
GENIUS AND LOVE.
THE IDEAL.
PAST HOURS.
ON A SYMPHONY OF BEETHOVEN.
EVENING.
UPON A BRANCH OF FLOWERING ACACIA.
VERSES ON ROME.
DESPAIR.
SCRAPS.
[Raise it to Heaven, when thine eye fills with tears]
[Youth with swift feet walks onward in the way]
LINES
LINES
CLOSE OF OUR SUMMER AT FRASCATI.
A SUMMONS.
TORRE NUOVO.
TO PIUS IX.
A VISION OF THE VATICAN.
DEPARTING.
THE YEAR'S PROGRESS.
THE BLACK WALLFLOWER.
DREAM-LAND.
DREAM-LAND.
TO MY SISTER
SONNET ON THE AMERICAN WAR.
SONNET ON THE AMERICAN WAR.
SONNET ON THE AMERICAN WAR.
THE FALL OF RICHMOND.
ODE
SONNET.
EXPOSTULATION.
TO DANTE
TO SHAKESPEARE.
TO SHAKESPEARE.
TO SHAKESPEARE.
THE WRECK OF THE BIRKENHEAD,
SONNET.
WAKING.
TO LADY ANNABELLA NOEL.
LINES
TO EMILIA LOVATELLI,
EPITAPH
A GERMAN LEGEND.
IMPROMPTU
LINES FOR MUSIC.
SONG.
SONG.
SONG.
SLEEPLESS NIGHTS.
FLYING LEAVES.
“LIFE IS BEFORE US.”
SONNET.
SONNET.
SONNET.
LINES WRITTEN AT BELVOIR CASTLE, 1883.
SONNET ON AN EDELWEISS.
SONNET.
TRANSLATIONS.
FROM ALFRED DE MUSSET'S ODE TO MALIBRAN.
FROM VICTOR HUGO.
FROM MILLEVOYE.
IMPROMPTU.
IMPROMPTU.
SICILIAN SONG.
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FROM VICTOR HUGO.
Thou
art like the bird that alights and sings
Though the frail spray bends—for he knows he has wings.
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