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Poems
Sigourney, L. H. (1791-1865)
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GRAVE OF THE MOTHER OF WASHINGTON.
INVOCATION TO GREECE.
TO THE MOON.
THE CORAL INSECT.
WITH WILD FLOWERS TO A SICK FRIEND.
ANNA BOLEYN.
BURIAL OF THE YOUNG.
ON A QUESTION PROPOSED
THE SWEETNESS OF LIFE.
THE RIVAL KINGS OF MOHEGAN,
THE DEPARTED BENEFACTRESS.
MOURN YE THE RIGHTEOUS DEAD?
DEATH OF WOLSEY.
PARTING OF LOVERS.
THE FUNERAL.
EARLY RECOLLECTIONS.
THE BABE OF ST. BERNARD.
CHILLY M'INTOSH.
SAUL.
“YE SHALL SEEK ME IN THE MORNING, BUT SHALL NOT BE.”
THE ALPINE FLOWERS.
TO THE EYE.
JOY PURCHASED BY SORROW.
ON HEARING A YOUNG LADY DEFEND THE CAUSE OF MATRIMONY.
OPINIONS OF THE UNEDUCATED DEAF AND DUMB.
THE FUNERAL OF A MOTHER.
HOPE AND MEMORY.
LATIMER AND RIDLEY.
ON THE TRANSLATION OF MILTON
REMONSTRANCE OF THE CREEK INDIANS
CARLOMAN AND MEROVEE.
ANCIENT TRADITION FROM THE ISLAND OF LESBOS.
EPITAPH
RETURN OF THE EXILE.
THE GEORGIAN PLANET.
“AS THY DAY, SO SHALL THY STRENGTH BE.”
“A MAN'S LIFE CONSISTETH NOT IN THE ABUNDANCE OF THE THINGS THAT HE POSSESSETH.”
MEMORY AND CONSCIENCE.
THE CHAIR OF THE INDIAN KING.
VISIT TO THE VENERABLE CHARLES THOMPSON
ON THE LOSS OF THE STEAM BOAT ÆTNA,
LAKE THRASYMENE.
THE VOICE OF THE SPIRIT.
AFRICA.
AUTUMN WINDS.
SONG OF THE ICELANDIC FISHER.
TOIL.
“THERE IS A TIME TO DIE.”
“PERADVENTURE HE SLEEPETH, AND MUST BE AWAKED.”
BURIAL OF MAZEEN.
THE SWEDISH LOVERS.
THE ELEMENTS.
ON VISITING THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, AT CHARLOTTESVILLE.
WINTER.
THE SUTTEE.
CAROLINE MATILDA, TO CHRISTIAN THE SEVENTH OF DENMARK.
A THUNDER STORM, WHILE TRAVELLING.
ON PASSING AT JAMESTOWN, VIRGINIA,
ON READING THE LIFE OF QUINCY, BY HIS SON.
“THIS YEAR, THOU SHALT DIE.”
SENTIMENT IN A SERMON.
VICE.
MOUNT VERNON.
THE DEAD INFANT.
ON THE DEATH OF A YOUNG MATRON.
A VISION.
THE ENTREATY OF RUTH.
SELF EXAMINATION.
GREECE.
ON THE MARRIAGE OF A YOUNG FRIEND. DURING MY ABSENCE.
THE EIGHTH PSALM.
THE COMET OF 1825.
INTEMPERANCE.
DAVID AND JONATHAN.
SABRINA.
DEFEAT OF THE QUEEN OF NARRAGANSETT, IN 1679.
TO THE FIRST SLAVE SHIP.
ON THE DEATH OF AN ACCOMPLISHED PHYSICIAN.
TO A GLOW-WORM.
TO A WASP.
SCOTTISH RELICS.
THE “EYES OF THE NILE.”
ON BEING ENTERTAINED WITH PAINTING AND MUSIC.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
MISSOLONGHI.
ODE ON THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE.
ON THE DEATH OF JOHN ADAMS.
DEATH OF JEFFERSON.
THE LAST SURVIVER OF THE SIGNERS OF OUR DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.
THE STRANGER'S FLOWER.
“MENE.”
TO AN ANCIENT ROCKING CHAIR.
A WALK IN THE CHURCH YARD OF MY NATIVE PLACE.
TO THE EVENING PRIMROSE.
WYLLYS' HILL AND THE CHARTER OAK.
TOMB OF CECILIA METELLA.
POMPEY'S STATUE,
FUNERAL OF THE OSAGE WARRIOR.
THE CEMETERY OF PERE LA CHAISE.
A HEBREW TALE.
THE MISLETOE AT THE TOMB OF WASHINGTON.
THE SAINTED MOTHER.
“WHEREFORE I PRAISED THE DEAD, MORE THAN THE LIVING.”
A DIRGE.
BIRTH-DAY OF BOTH MY PARENTS.
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L. H. Sigourney
1791-1865
Published by S. G. Goodrich
Boston
1827
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