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Poetry: selected for the use of schools and families by A. Bowman
Poetry selected for the use of schools and families by A Bowman Author:Anne Bowman Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: TO MY MOTHER. C3 But when gleams the sun again, O'er the pearl-besprinkled plain, And from behind his watery veil Looks through the thin-descending hail, She ... more »mounts, and, lessening to the sight, Salutes the blithe return of light, And high her tuneful track pursues 'Mid the dim rainbow's scatter'd hues. Warton. TO MY MOTHER. And canst thon, mother, for a moment think, That we, thy children, when old age shall shed Its blanching honours on thy weary head, Could from our best of duties ever shrink 1 Sooner the sun from his bright sphere shall sink, Than we ungrateful leave thee in that day, To pine in solitude thy life away, Or shun thee tottering on the grave's cold brink. Banish the thought!—where'er our steps may roam, O'er smiling plains, or wastes without a tree, Still will fond memory point our hearts to thee, And paint the pleasures of thy peaceful home ; While duty bids us all thy griefs assuage, And smoothe the pillow of thy sinking age. Henry Kihke White. THE FROZEN SHOWER. WBITTEir AT COPENHAGEN. Ere yet the clouds let fall the treasured snow, Or winds began through hazy skies to blow, At evening a keen eastern breeze arose, And the descending rain unsullied froze. Soon as the silent shades of night withdrew, The ruddy morn disclosed at once to view The face of Nature in a rich disguise, And brighten'd every object to my eyes; For every shrub, and every blade of grass, And every pointed thorn, seem'd wrought in glass ; In pearls and rubies rich the hawthorns show, While through the ice the crimson berries glow : The thick-sprung reeds which watery marshes yield, Seem polish'd lances in a hostile field; The stag, in limpid currents, with surprise, Sees crystal branches on his forehead ...« less