Felicia Hemans

Name: Poems of Felicia Hemans in The Literary Souvenir, 1826
Author: Felicia Hemans

Poems of Felicia Hemans in The Literary Souvenir… (1825)

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“Poems of Felicia Hemans in The Literary Souvenir, 1826”, published in 1825, is a work by Felicia Hemans. It explores elements such as Trophies, tomb and Cargill.

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Felicia Hemans, Poems of Felicia Hemans in The Literary Souvenir… (1825)

“ Floated and died. Proud mourners there, yet pale,
Wore man's mute anguish sternly; but of One,
Oh! who shall speak?—what words his brow unveil?—
A father following to the grave his son!—
That is no grief to picture! Sad and slow,
Through the wood-shadows moved the knightly train,
With youth's fair form upon the bier laid low,—
Fair even when found, amidst the bloody slain,
Stretched by a broken lance. They reached the lone
Baronial chapel, where the forest-gloom
Fell heaviest, for the massy boughs had grown
Into high archways, as to vault the tomb. ”

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Felicia Hemans, Poems of Felicia Hemans in The Literary Souvenir… (1825)

“ Trophies, ere long, to deck that lordly grave,
And the pale image of a youth, arrayed
As warriors are for fight, but calmly laid,
In slumber, on his shield. Then all was done,
All still, around the dead. ”

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Felicia Hemans, Poems of Felicia Hemans in The Literary Souvenir… (1825)

“ And found, within that tomb's proud shadow laid,—
Oh! not as midst the vineyards, to repose
From the fierce noon,—a dark-haired peasant-maid.—
Who could reveal her story? That still face
Had once been fair; for on the clear arched brow,
And the curved lip, there lingered yet such grace
As sculpture gives its dreams ”

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Felicia Hemans, Poems of Felicia Hemans in The Literary Souvenir… (1825)

“ Again on its shores to rest?
"Thine own is the choice to hail once more
The soil of thy father's birth,
Or to sleep, when thy lingering pangs are o'er,
Forgotten in foreign earth."
"Oh! fair are the vine-clad hills that rise
In the country of my love ”

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Felicia Hemans, Poems of Felicia Hemans in The Literary Souvenir… (1825)

“ And true ones died with her!
We saw her mighty cable riven,
Like floating gossamer!
We saw her proud flag struck that morn,
A star once o'er the seas,
Her helm beat down, her deck uptorn,—
And sadder things than these! ”

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Felicia Hemans, Poems of Felicia Hemans in The Literary Souvenir… (1825)

“ The Soldan cried to the captive knight,
"And the sons of the Prophet in throngs are met
To gaze on the fearful sight.
"But be our faith by thy lips professed,
The faith of Mecca's shrine,
Cast down the red-cross that marks thy vest,
And life shall yet be thine." ”

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Felicia Hemans, Poems of Felicia Hemans in The Literary Souvenir… (1825)

“ Thou radiant child with the clustering hair?
Is it not Spring that indeed breathes free
And fresh o'er each thought, as we gaze on thee?
⁠IV.
No! never more may we smile as thou
Sheddest round smiles from thy sunny brow! ”

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Felicia Hemans, Poems of Felicia Hemans in The Literary Souvenir… (1825)

“ VII.
Oh, human love! whose yearning heart
Through all things vainly true,
So stamps upon thy mortal part,
Its passionate adieu!
Surely thou hast another lot,
There is some home for thee,
Where thou shalt rest, remembering not
The moaning of the sea!
↑ * This circumstance is related of Mrs. Cargill, an actress of some celebrity, who was shipwrecked on the rocks of Scilly, when returning from India. ”

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Felicia Hemans, Poems of Felicia Hemans in The Literary Souvenir… (1825)

“ In printing Mrs. Hemans's beautiful poem "The Troubadour and Richard Cœur de Lion," I have deviated from the plan of the Literary Souvenir, it having already been published. I had prepared a short illustration to accompany the plate myself; but having met with this poem, I most willingly gave it the preference. Three other pieces, not less attractive of their kind, will be found in the foregoing pages, from Mrs. ”

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