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My Mind and its Thoughts, in Sketches, Fragments, and Essays

Morton, Sarah Wentworth (1759-1846)

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My Mind AND ITS THOUGHTS, IN SKETCHES, FRAGMENTS, AND ESSAYS;

LINES TO POVERTY.

TO GEORGE HENRY APTHORP.

PRAYER TO PATIENCE.

CHARACTER FROM LIFE.

LINES TO JOHN C. WARREN, M. D. OF BOSTON, MASS.

STANZAS TO DISAPPOINTMENT.

INSCRIPTIONS. Intended for a little Island upon the Schuylkill, belonging to the proprietor of the Woodlands; at whose request the following were hastily written.

SONG OF THE RUNIC BARD.

SECOND ODE TO TIME.

DISINTERESTEDNESS,

TO LEWIS HERVEY, ESQ.

INJUNCTION TO D. W. L.

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CHARACTERISTIC SONGS.

SUCCESSFUL LOVER.

TO A BEAUTIFUL INFANT.

LINES TO A LADY, DANCING.

LINES IMPROMPTU,

TRIBUTARY LINES

TO THE HON. JOHN JAY.

TO HIS EXCELLENCY JOHN JAY,

SONNET, TO MAJOR GENERAL LINCOLN.

SONNET TO THE FULL SUMMER MOON.

SONNET TO ADVERSITY.

STANZAS TO AARON BURR.

LINES TO MRS. MONTGOMERY.

THE AFRICAN CHIEF.

CHARACTERISTIC PORTRAIT.

THE STAR GAZER.

MORTAL AND IMMORTAL.

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DEDICATION HYMN.

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MONODIES, Elegies, and Stanzas.

AUX MANES DE JULIE.

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Shades of my Fathers! great, or good,
This heart yet glorying in your blood,
Pleads for that peace which earth denies,
The living branch, whose foliage young,
Mid your deep-rooted virtues sprung;
With a good angel's guardian care,
Shield from the night-frost of despair,
Driven by life's storms, its torn leaf lies,
Immortal, full in bloom to rise.
Sires of a firm unbroken line,
Source of my life—YOUR HEAVEN IS MINE.