The Poetical Works of Felicia Hemans: With Memoir, Explanatory Notes, Etc
The Poetical Works of Felicia Hemans: With Memoir, Explanatory Notes, Etc
Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans
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Where the violets lie may be now your home. THE VOICE OF SPRING, 3^9 Ye of the rose-lip and dew-bright eye, And the bounding footstep to meet me fly . With the lyre, and the wreath, and the joyous lay, Come forth to the sunshine — I may not stay. Away from the dwellings of care-worn men, The waters are sparkling in grove and glen I Away from the chamber and sullen hearth. The young leaves are dancing in breezy mirth I Their light stems thrill to the wild-wood strains. And youth is abroad in my ...green domains. But ye ! — yc are changed since ye met me last ! There is something bright from your features passed I There is that come over vour brow and eye Which speaks of a worlcf where the flowers must diet — Ye smile 1 but your smile bath a dimness yet . Oh ! what have you looked on since last we met ? Ye are changed, ve are changed !— and I sec not here All whom I saw m the vanished year I -^ Inhere were graceful heads, with their ringlets bright. Which tossed in the breeze with a play oflight ; There were eyes in whose glistening laughter lay No faint remembrance of dull decay I There were steps that flew o'er the cowslip's head, As if for a banquet all earth were spread ; There were voices that rang through the sapphire sky, « And.
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