Felicia Hemans
Felicia Hemans
Felicia Dorothea Hemanswas an English poet...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth25 September 1793
far filled graves grew home side
They grew in beauty, side by side, / They filled one home with glee; - / Their graves are severed, far and wide, / By mount, and stream, and sea.
amidst beautiful england homes pleasant tall
The stately homes of England! / How beautiful they stand, / Amidst their tall ancestral trees, / O'er all the pleasant land!
beautiful homes
The stately homes of England, / How beautiful they stand!
born british-historian strength
Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
boy burning deck stood
The boy stood on the burning deck - / Whence all but he had fled.
courage heart suffering
Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, Suffering, yet hoping all things.
freedom holy-ground soil
Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod, They have left unstained, what there they found,- Freedom to worship God.
life art ifs
Alas! for love, if thou art all, And nought beyond, O earth.
christmas lovely-voice sky
Oh! lovely voices of the sky Which hymned the Saviour's birth, Are ye not singing still on high, Ye that sang, "Peace on earth"?
song stars spring
Come, I come! ye have called me long, I come o'er the mountain with light and song: Ye may trace my step o'er the wakening earth, By the winds which tell of the violet's birth, By the primrose-stars in the shadowy grass, By the green leaves, opening as I pass.
strength heart dwelling
There is strength deep bedded in our hearts, of which we reck but little till the shafts of heaven have pierced its fragile dwelling. Must not earth be rent before her gems are found?
death seasons
Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!
sympathy kindred
We pine for kindred natures To mingle with our own.
beautiful home land
The stately Homes of England,How beautiful they stand!Amidst their tall ancestral trees,O'er all the pleasant land.