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Poems

By Felicia Dorothea Browne [i.e. Hemans]
Hemans, Felicia Dorothea Browne (1793-1835)

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STANZAS,
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POEMS.
 
ON A ROSE.
 
ON HEALTH.
 
WRITTEN IN NORTH WALES.
 
WRITTEN ON THE SEA-SHORE.
 
MORNING.
 
ON THE DEATH OF MY DEAR SISTER ELIZA.
 
PITY;
 
ON THE 16TH DECEMBER, BEING AS FINE AS MAY-DAY.
 
TO FANCY.
 
THE SPARTAN MOTHER AND HER SON.
 
THE REIGN OF DECEMBER.
 
TO HOPE.
 
TO FRIENDSHIP.
 
THE RETURN OF THE MARINERS.
 
TO INDEPENDENCE.
 
TO THE MOON.
 
YOUTH.
 
HYMN.
 
THE EXILE.
 
THE LILY OF THE VALE.
 
INVOCATION TO THE FAIRIES.
 
LIBERTY.
 
HYMN.
 
TO A BEAUTIFUL VINE AND A ROSE-BUSH.
 
ODE TO THE EVENING STAR.
 
TO MY BROTHER AND SISTER, IN THE COUNTRY.
 
ASTRE DE LA NUIT.
 
THE APRIL MORN.
 
ODE TO MIRTH.
 
CEBA.
 
THE RUINED CASTLE.
 
JEU D'ESPRIT.
 
TO MY BROTHER.
 
MELANCHOLY.
 
FAIRY SONG.
 
SHAKSPEARE.
 
TO A BUTTERFLY.
 
WISDOM.
 
FLORA TO CLAUDE, ON HIS PLUCKING A ROSE.
 
THE DREAM OF JOY.
 
Song.
 
THE BEE.
 
INSCRIPTION FOR A COTTAGE.
 
SONG.
 
HYMN.
 
SONG OF ZEPHYRUS.
 
SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF LORD NELSON.
 
HOLIDAY HOURS.
 
SONNET TO THE MUSE OF PITY.
 
THE SONG OF A SERAPH.
 
THE MINSTREL TO HIS HARP.
 
ON MY MOTHER's BIRTH-DAY.
 
TO E. B. ON HER BIRTH-DAY.
 
TO MY AUNT, ON HER BIRTH-DAY.
 
TO THE MOONLIGHT HOUR.
 
TO MY ELDEST BROTHER,
 
TO PATRIOTISM.
 
TO MY YOUNGER BROTHER,
 
SONNET.
 
TO AUTUMN.
 
THE PETITION OF THE REDBREAST.
 
INSCRIPTION FOR A HERMITAGE.
 
THE MINSTREL BARD.
 
TO THE MUSE.
 
GENIUS.
 
THE ALPINE SHEPHERD.
 
SONNET, TO AGNES.
 
CHRISTMAS.
 
THE WREATH OF SPRING.
 
SONNET TO A DYING EXOTIC
 
THE VALE OF CLWYD.
 
SEA PIECE, BY MOONLIGHT.
 
LINES TO MAJOR COX,
 
SONNET.
 
THE PATH OF LIFE.
 
THE MORNING WALK.
 
HARVEST HYMN.
 
A TRIBUTE TO THE GENIUS OF ROBERT BURNS.
 
THE VERNAL SHOWER.
 
EVENING, ON THE SEA SHORE.
 
SONG OF A WOOD NYMPH.
 
THE SCENES OF CONWAY.
 
LINES, FOR MY MOTHER'S BIRTH-DAY.
 
LINES, INSCRIBED TO MRS. WYNNE,
 
SONG,
 
THE FAREWELL.
 
PART OF THE 104TH PSALM, PARAPHRASED.

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JEU D'ESPRIT.

Fancy lend thy magic aid,
Let me draw a heavenly maid.
Bring the azure of the sky,
For the fair one's lovely eye;
Join the rose-bud's damask glow
To the lustre of the snow;
Juno's dignity of mien,
Venus' smile and look serene;
Taste and genius to excel;
All that fabling poets tell
Of the Goddesses divine,
The Graces, or the Sister Nine;
Native elegance refin'd,
Lovely person, lovely mind:
To these add candour, pity, truth,
All that can embellish youth.
Now the finished picture see,
Sportive Fancy's jeu d'esprit.
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