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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.

SONNET.

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.

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.

Nay, spring is not now fair; I cannot now
Greet its glad wakening, though I oft have loved
To watch its coming when its breezes moved
Like music o'er my spirit, and my brow
Was bright with hope and health. The joyous glow
Of nature's new-born loveliness to me
Is fraught with pain; for ere the budding tree
Shall put forth all its beauty, ere the snow
Melts from the mountain summits, we must part,
Mine own dear friend! Thou o'er the trackless sea,
Borne by spring's earliest gales, wilt leave my heart
To mourn in loneliness, bereft of thee,
While to thy memory I shall only seem
The half-traced image of a pleasant dream.