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The poems of Mrs. Emma Catherine Embury

Embury, Emma C. (1806-1863)

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SKETCHES FROM HISTORY.

JANE OF FRANCE.

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SCENES IN THE LIFE OF A LOVER.

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QUEEN ELIZABETH.

THE DEATH OF QUEEN ELIZABETH.

THE LAMENT OF COLUMBUS.

THE SHIPWRECK OF CAMOENS.

LAMENT OF CAMOENS.

THE POOL OF BETHESDA.

CHRIST IN THE TEMPEST.

THE SURRENDER OF CALAIS.

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.

SONG.

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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SONG.

I have won thee to love me, all cold as thou art;
I have won thee to love me, untamable heart!
For this every joy of my life has been given,
For this I have risked every promise of heaven;
I have won thee to love me,—I hold thee in thrall,
And the sight of thy bondage repays me for all.

I have won thee to love me, untamable heart!
I have won thee to love me, and now let us part;
Thou mayst throw off my fetters with haughty disdain,
But the scar and the aching must ever remain;
My toils may seem frail as the wood-spider's net,
But Love's spell is upon thee,—thou canst not forget.